Vasantha Kumar Kandaswamy

Product Line – Wafer Handling Handlers (EFEM) FFC 300 & 200mm / 300,200,150mm wafer (All kinds of handlers)

Aug 2023 to Present @ India

• Responsible for providing assistance and support to the Customer Service Engineers in diagnosing, fixing and debugging sophisticated optical/electro-mechanical equipment, computer systems coupled with sophisticated software solutions.
• Be the lead/owner and provide solutions to field raised issues where the Customer Service Engineer has been unable to resolve these issues in the systems at customers’ sites
• Develop, test and validate detailed requirement specifications and solutions using systems engineering
• Hands-on troubleshooting and maintenance of engineering prototype systems
• Leading cross functional teams of ME, EE & SW
• Self-managing priorities and activities to support the new product development and Escalation support
• Travel to customer site to address Escalation
• Conduct Internal and External training/DEMO for CSE /IE/TSE and New Joiners.
• Field escalation handling by sharing POA’ s, On call and Onsite
• Semiconductor Ro bots and Electro - mechanical motion system handling
• Expertise in handling & troubleshooting Semiconductor Equipment Front End Mo dule (EFEM) / Handler/ Wafer inspection tools and SEMI conductor Ro bots within clean room standards

Product Line – Wafer Surface Inspection Tool / FFC 300/200mm Wafer handlers / FFC Wafer handling Inspection tool

May 2022 to July 2023 @ Singapore

• Working / Worked on KLA Wafer surface defect inspection tools (Micro, Macro & Altair)
• Working / Worked on KLA all different kinds of wafer handlers and wafers like 150mm/200mm/300mm, FFC wafers and Special Wafers
• Handling Cro ss function team s, ME, EE, SW, Manufacturing, CSE team and Procurement team etc.
• Conducting Service Reediness Review by different PLC Phase
• New Pro duct FRU identification, release in global Stock
• Test and handling Tooling’s, Tools in global FAB’s
• Creating Procedure / WBT (Web Based Training) documents for new pro duct or new upgrade initiations
• Successfully created Documents, WBT, enabled parts, Train CSE/IE/TSE for new program on FFC 300mm/200mm to LGD South Korea, Sony Japan & Intel Portland etc.,
• Successfully Traveled to Onsite & given OJT (On Job Trainning) at FAB Sony Japan and Intel Portland for new program on FFC 300mm/200mm
• AR / VR converting, Converting WBT or Technical Procedures into AR / VR
• Conduct Internal and External training/DEMO for CSE /IE/TSE and New Joiners.
• Field escalation handling by sharing POA’ s, On call and Onsite
• Field support to Customer Service Engineer thro ug h on call and onsite support.
• Semiconductor Ro bots and Electro - mechanical motion system handling
• BOM, Documentation, procedure & BKM creation based on SEMI standards for Integration, Upgrade, Test process & New pro duct development

Nov 2007 to Mar 2022 in multiple location

Product Line – Wafer Surface Inspection Tool / Wafer Stress measurement Tool / All Different kinds of Wafer Handlers

2020 to March 2022 @ HCL- KLA ODC, INDIA Chennai, TN (2+ years)

• Working/ Worked as Mechanical System Engineer, Team Lead, Design Engineer, for multiple projects (SP1 S GP, Ennovia 20X USA, OMD ISR & CP HK)
• Mechanical Systems Engineer, Alternate Ro bot evaluation for KLA SP1 MFG team
• Team Lead, New Ennovia20X document creation for KLA US Enno via team (Voice assist video creation)
• Design Engineer, Design and Detailing for KLA Israel, A800 etc.
• Design Engineer, Design, Det ailing, e- Procurement, MSR creation for KLA Ho n Ko ng, CP tools.
• Travel to KLA SGP Engg for Alternate Ro bot identification and Evaluation.
• Lead HCL Mechanical Team for different projects
• Conduct Internal training for HCL-KLA new joiners
• BOM, Documentation, & procedure creation for Integration, Upgrade, Test process
• Vendor follow, Parts Manual & Bill of Materials, creation
• Worked in CA D packages SolidWorks, Pro - e & AutoCAD
• Worked and have Hands on experience in ECO release thro ugh Ennovia

2016 to 2020 @ KLA Head Quarters - USA, Milpitas, California (3+ Years)

• Worked on Enhancing KLA legacy Wafer Film thickness measurement tools (F5x, UVxx)
• Engineering Clean room tool s owner ship
• Travel to FAB for Escalation support and Upgrade (N XP Netherlands)
• Handling Cro ss function team s, ME, EE, SW, Manufacturing, CSE team and Procurement team etc.
• Conduct Internal and External training/DEMO for CSE and New Joiners .
• Field support to Customer Service Engineer thro ug h on call and onsite support.
• Semiconductor Ro bots and Electro- mechanical motion system handling
• Expertise in handling & troubleshooting Semiconductor Equipment Front End Mo dule (EFEM) / Handler/ Wafer inspection tools and SEMI conductor Ro bots within clean room standards.
• Preventative and repair maintenance on complex electro -mechanical semiconductor equipment’s
• BOM, Documentation, procedure & BKM creation based on SEMI standards for Integration, Upgrade, Test process & New pro duct development
• Vendors follow, Parts Manual & Bill of Materials, creation for New pro duct development
• Worked in CA D packages SolidWorks, Pro - e & AutoCAD, to do small design change and Detailing
• Worked and have Hands on experience in ECO package Ennovia

2013 to 2016 @ KLA Germany - Germany, Weilburg, Hassan (3+ Years)

• Worked o n KLA Wafer surface defect inspection tools (Micro, Macro)
• Engineering Clean room tool owner ship
• Travel to FAB for Escalation support and Upgrade (US C China, U MC Taiwan & Bosch Germ any)
• Handling Cro ss function team s, ME, EE, SW, Manufacturing, CSE team and Procurement team etc.
• Conduct Internal and External training/DEMO for CSE, New Joiners.
• Field support to Customer Service Engineer thro ug h on call and onsite support.
• Semiconductor Ro bots and Electro - mechanical motion system handling
• Expertise in handling & troubleshooting Semiconductor Equipment Front End Mo dule (EFEM) / Handler/ Wafer inspection tools and SEMI conductor Ro bots within Clean room standards.
• Preventative and repair maintenance on complex electro -mechanical semiconductor equipment’s
• BOM, Documentation, procedure & BKM creation based on SEMI standards for Integration, Upgrade, Test process & New pro duct development
• Vendor follow, Parts Manual & Bill of Materials, creation for New pro duct development
• Worked in CA D packages SolidWorks, Pro - e & AutoCAD, to do small design change and Detailing
• Worked and have Hands o n experience in ECO package Ennovia

2009 to 2013 @ HCL- KLA India LAB- India, Chennai, TN (5+ Years)

• Worked on KLA all different kinds of wafer handlers EFEM
• Engineering LAB ownership in India
• Support S W and ME team for New pro duct development, SQC testing
• Travel to KLA worldwide facilities like Israel, Singapore, USA & Germany for proto build, Test and evaluation
• Conduct Internal and External training for new joiners from HCL and KL A India facility.
• Semiconductor Ro bots and Electro - mechanical motion system handling
• Expertise in handling & troubleshooting all different kinds of wafer handlers
• Preventative and repair maintenance on engineering LAB handlers
• BOM, Documentation, procedure & BKM creation based on SEMI standards for Integration, Upgrade, Test process & New pro duct development
• Worked in CA D packages SolidWorks, Pro - e & AutoCAD, to do small design change and Detailing
• Worked and have Hands on experience in ECO package (Ennovia)

2007 to 2009 @ HCL India, Chennai, TN (2+Years)

Earlier couple of years with in HCL worked for couple of clients in Telecom / S mall SEMI Company as Design Engineer, as below responsibilities / accomplishments

• SEMI conductor Gas Flow controller design.
• Enclosure Design for Base station and Antenna pro ducts
• Input gathering for new and existing pro ducts from onsite manager & customer,
• Detail design & Det ail drawing using CAD tools
• Local vendor finding for proto making
• Proto model testing
• ECO creation in PL M (Agile)

Product Line – Cutting tools like, Drills, Taps, Center drills etc.

• Field inspection on cutting tool pro duction plant,
• Final pro duct and in progress product quality confirmation,
• Maintaining quality systems documents,
• Inspecting the pro ducts adhere to the ISO, BIN, JS standards etc.