Company: ASML, Wilton CT, USA

Industry: Manufacturing of Lithographic Scanners Used in the Production of Semiconductors

Role: Team Lead (TL) for the Ultra Violet Level Sensor (UVLS)

Duration: July 2018 – October 2019

Overview: I was a designer on UVLS for 10 months before taking on the role of Team Lead. As Team Lead, I managed 3 designers. The project line at the time was mature and entering volume production- which translated to us working on field issues/feedback for areas of improvements. My role was to provide timing in how to address these issues, provide both containment and structural solutions for the issues, and roll out the structural fixes in the ECN (Engineering Change Notice) process by aligning with the full cross-sector. To give a sense of the “types” of issues, most focused on re-visiting the designs of components that were difficult to manufacture for volume parts- this was due to a specific tolerance being too tight, or the design itself involving too many machining steps. We provided containment solutions for out-of-spec. parts (by using “clever” ways to use shims/alignment features that allowed us to functionally meet spec.), and in parallel worked on design changes for the part itself. In rolling out the changes, I owned the cross-sectoral alignment (with the Production Engineers, Logistics team, Architects, and Change Specialists) needed to roll out the change, and make it “visible” to the rest of ASML.

Unfortunately, I cannot disclose details of the design changes for the components I have worked on. However, I will list out my key achievements.

Key Achievements:

• Closed out 25 field issues in my time as Team Lead (from providing containment solutions to implementing structural changes)
• Managed a team of 3 designers and delegated tasks by optimizing the resource loading; I was also a key stakeholder at each design review
• Solved a particular field issue (categorized as a high importance escalation) by pulling in the design time and implementation time, and this saved our customer 3 weeks of system downtime