Laird Snowden is an experienced semiconductor development and test engineer recommended by multiple former colleagues and managers. He has extensive experience developing testing strategies and solving difficult problems for new semiconductor products. References praise his skills in diagnostics, problem-solving, and attention to detail. They note he is easy to work with and contributes significantly to production test solutions.

1. Laird Snowden recommendations 512 312 4891 larsnow1@aol.com
NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION, CHARACTERIZATION, RELIABILITY TEST,
TRANSFER OFF SHORE
Silabs
Staff Product Test Engineer
Silicon Laboratories
Senior MTS Member Technical Staff
Bell Labs AT&T/Lucent Technologies
Robert Tipton
Maintenance Manager at ISE Labs
I would like to recommend Laird Snowden for any challenging
semiconductor development project. As the ISE Labs test floor manager, I
had the pleasure to work with Laird for a year, as he developed the testing
strategy and the final product development of the SI5301 device for Silicon
Labs. Laird worked diligently to tackle and solve all problems that were
associated with this difficult project. Laird is a very accomplished engineer
with excellence diagnostics and problem solving skills. Laird’s persistence
and keen sense of details makes Laird one of the best engineers I’ve had
the pleasure to work with.
Sincerely,
Robert L. Tipton
Dr. Sundar Chetlur
Director of Wafer Technology at Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
Laird and I worked together on a number of product yield improvement
activities at Silicon Labs. The most memorable were improving poly-fuse
programming to avoid "disturbing" adjacent bits and fixing Fmin/Fmax
issues on timing products. I found Laird to be prompt, knowledgeable and
extremenly tenacious in solving tough problems.
April 20, 2015, Sundar worked with Laird at Silicon Labor
Brent Schusheim
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Professional
I worked with Laird on high speed data communications semiconductors at
Lucent Technologies. Laird was knowledgeable of these leading edge
devices and contributed significantly to the production test solutions. He
was easy to work with and an outstanding test scientist.
Brent Schusheim
May 22, 2015, Brent was with another company when working with Laird at Bell
Labs AT&T/Lucent Technologies
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Dr.Yi Cai
Test Engineering Director at Avago Technologies
I worked with Laird in the first few years of my career starting at Lucent
Technologies Bell Labs. As a newly grad with a Ph.D., I took on a job to
define the upcoming CMOS GHz SerDes testing in 2000. Laird's practical
experience in the 2.5G/10G SONET test gave me a healthy dose of reality in
GHz production test challenges. I learnt a lot of the GHz Signal Integrity
concepts in PCB design and connector launch technique from Laird. Later
on, we worked together in selecting an ATE platform to construct a hybrid
ATE test solutions with add-on instrument. That is for multi-GHz SerDes
embedded in larger ICs, when the technology moved from GaAs to CMOS. I
have been impressed by Laird's attention to details and practical knowledge
to foresee SI issues in a production environment.
May 20, 2015, Yi worked with Laird at Bell Labs AT&T/Lucent Technologies
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Donald Fister
Program Manager, Program Director | Open to new opportunities
This is a very strong recommendation for Laird. It has been my pleasure to
work with Laird for a number of years in a company strategic business unit.
He provided critical solutions to test set development that supported
leading edge high reliability products. During that time he successfully
pioneered the invention / development of advanced state of the art
development and manufacturing test. He demonstrated keen attention to
detail and a strong commitment balancing cost and quality. Any company
would be fortunate to acquire is services.
April 23, 2015, Donald managed Laird indirectly at Bell Labs AT&T/Lucent
Technologies
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Dr. Hans Ransijn
Analog Design Engineer at Multiphy
Laird and I worked together at AT&T Bell Labs (later Lucent and Agere) in
the 90's on multi-Gb/s telecom ICs that were state-of-the-art at the time and
that were manufactured in high-performance but relatively immature III-V
technologies.
Laird developed high speed wafer tests for these ICs, but didn't just stop at
circuit characterization. Since we were pushing the limits of the level of
integration for these III-V processes, maintaining yield was critical. Laird was
instrumental in developing statistical techniques that allowed accurate
performance yield predictions.
I enjoyed working with Laird. He is a thorough professional with an easy
demeanor, is un-assuming and a tireless worker. I highly recommend him
for any engineering job that includes test hardware and software
development, characterization, modeling, data analysis and the like.
April 21, 2015, Hans worked directly with Laird at Bell Labs AT&T/Lucent
Technologies
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David Harrison
Visionary Entrepreneur
Laird worked in the Gallium Arsenide business unit at AT&T Microelectronics
and Lucent. He created models of the GaAs process data to predict device
yield using Neural Network techniques to capture data in the distribution
tails of high dimensionality non orthogonal data. He deployed scripts that
printed out yield estimates for each lot. This was used to build our inventory
during the down time when our entire GaAs IC fab line was transferred from
AT&T Reading, PA to TriQuint Semiconductor, Oregon. . He built sufficient
inventory to cover the production outage. Laird coordinated the weekly
meetings for process bring up between AT&T Reading and TriQuint to set
process targets derived from his data analysis and models. First wafer lot
from TriQuint was a success.
Laird also coordinated the world first Telecommunication Big Iron Test Set
with LTX on an LTX Fusion HF tester and hit the production test time goal of
4 and 8 seconds for the 2.488 GB/s Transceivers.
Laird also developed Cascade Microtek first RF membrane probe card to test
(at speed) the Clock and Data Recovery(CDR) chip which resulted in high
yield at the packaged device level
Laird created models of wafer data to package data using virtual die
numbers to improve Limiting amp and CDR yields from 0 to 50 percent to
98 percent. The GaAs IC business unit moved to profitability by centering
process and design target and by resetting wafer test limits to improve
package yield results.
April 17, 2015, David managed Laird indirectly at Bell Labs AT&T/Lucent
Technologies
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Dr. Martin Brophy
GaAs Process, Reliability, Product and Test Development Engineer at Avago
Technologies
I worked closely with Laird and the team at AT&T Reading in the early
1990's doing a process transfer of 3 HEMT processes for 2.5 Gbps SONET
systems from their smaller fab to TriQuint Orgeon's big GaAs fab. It was a
major effort for us in Oregon because it was the first epi GaAs process
brought up in our fab. As you might expect from AT&T and Bell Labs, the
technical interactions were excellent and great learning experiences for me.
Laird played a big role in getting that project completed with excellent first
pass success. He has consistently demonstrated knowledge both broad and
deep in many areas of GaAs processing, reliability, and test for both
optoelectronic and electronic applications. He would bring great and broad-
based experience and knowledge to whomever is lucky enough to hire him
and I recommend him highly.
Martin Brophy
Sr. Test, Product, Reliability Development Engineer
Avago Technologies, Fort Collins,
April 15, 2015, Martin was with another company when working with Laird at Bell
Labs AT&T/Lucent Technologies
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Li Tao
Technical Sales Manager, Asia Pacific Region
I was very fortunate having Laird as my mentor right after college, who is
an extremely kind, professional and knowledgeable senior level engineer. I
was particularly impressed by Laird's innovative and high quality
engineering designs on multiple high profile projects. Laird is a valuable
asset to have on any team. I enjoyed working with/for Laird.
March 6, 2014, Li reported to Laird at Bell Labs AT&T/Lucent Technologies
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Paul Kurland
Franchise Owner at Cruise Planners Paul Kurland
I can remember the challenge Laird and I had to come up with a way to test
a memory hybrid for the Advanced Light Weight Torpedo program without
having to buy a sophistocated and expensive memory tester. With Laird's
expertise, and the help of a Commodore 64 computer he designed and built
an adapter card that plugged into the memory expansion port of the
Commodore. As far as the Commordore was concerned, the memory hybrid
was nothing more than an expanded memory. As a result the built in
memory diagnostics in the Commodore 64 made it easy to test and
troubleshoot the hybrid modules. Program was a total success. Hundreds of
memory modules were assembled and tested using this interface without a
single field failure. I was lucky to have had Laird as a member of my
team.less
April 15, 2015, Paul managed Laird at American Electronics Laboratory

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