Functional Yield Management
• Responsible for product yield outlook / prediction
• Yield reporting to management and broader stakeholders
Yield Monitoring
• Identified product yield degrades / sensitivities
• Communicated issues to process team and drove root cause
Yield Learning / Improvement
• Correlation analysis (parametric, process tool, operations, etc)
• Identified opportunities for
> Cost reduction – Test spec relaxation / elimination
> Risk management – Identifying and addressing sources of variability (process sensitivities)
Process Excursion Management
• Work In Progress management
• Product yield degrade analysis and assignment
• Point-of-cause identification
• Key functional signal identification
• Coordination of diagnostic support and failure analysis
Continuous Improvement
• Lead project to improve headlights into production run-path risks
• Identified gap in fab projection capabilities and lead cross-departmental team to improve on-time delivery for high-risk products