Rick Cousman has over 30 years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing, including developing preventative maintenance programs and training systems. He seeks a position utilizing his mechanical, technical, managerial and training skills. Most recently, he was the Maintenance Manager at Soraa Inc. where he created and implemented preventative maintenance programs driven by failure rate analysis of equipment components.

1. R I C K C O U S H M A N
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2. OBJECTIVE: AM SEEKING A POSITION WITHIN YOUR ORGANIZATION THAT
WILL UNTILIZE MY MECHANICAL, TECHNICAL, MANEGERIAL AND TRAINING
SKILLS.
I have over 30 years experience in the semiconductor-manufacturing field,
and have proven abilities creating, developing, and implementing
preventive maintenance programs for semiconductor manufacturing
equipment, and also developed a training system that endures the
preventive maintenance programs by failure rate analysis associated to the
equipment components/parts.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2010- 2014 Present Soraa Inc.
Sr. Equipment Engineer / Maintenance Manager
 Managed Vacuum equipment, (metal deposition, PECVD RIE Etch,
Metal Sputter) Photo equipment, (contact aligner), Diffusion furnace’s
and Test equipment in the fab, also responsible for NPI on all
manufacturing equipment. Created and implemented, PM Program with
procedures for each tools set, The PM program was driven from failure
rate analyses for each component in the tool to determine frequency of
failure, Supported by SPC Data analysis along with Pareto charts, this
also includes maintaining spares and cost of ownership budgets related
to each tool type. Additional responsibilities include managing all design
changes from start to finish, along with FAB expansion planning. This
responsibility included facilities support equipment, Scrubber, AWN,
Chillers, CDA / N2 DI, Water system, Abatement equipment.
2008-2010 Nova Solar
Field tool installation Supervisor
 Managed NPI for all Manufacturing process equipment and installation
also coordinated all contractors and training required for maintaining
and sustaining tool operation, also developed failure analysis program to
monitor tool performance that implemented into tool preventive
maintenance program. Supported by SPC Data analysis along with
Pareto charts.
2007-2008 Solyndra
Equipment Maintenance Supervisor
Supervised all Maintenance. This included all Robot Automation, along
with vacuum application tooling including Moly, Sputtering, TCO and
CIGS system and also supported engineering with upgrades and

3. documentation changes in Agile data base. Along with daily updates on
tool status in quick base. Developed the training tracking Matrix for all
shifts to insure 3 technicians deep per area on all equipment.
2006-2007 Optisolar Inc.
Sr. Equipment Tool Commissioning/Maintenance Engineer
Solar Panel Manufacturing tool install Engineer for all PECVD and
Sputtering Vacuum tools. Tool start up including assembly, leak check,
electronic wiring, component verification, hardware function test, data
collection to ensure all critical parameters for vacuum tools meet
required process specifications.
Worked directly with design engineering to ensure all part numbers and
drawings are implemented and documented. If any errors, redline
drawings were sent to document control to be resubmitted then re-
implemented with updated changes.
2000.2006 Applied Materials Inc.
Research and Development Technician
Supported all design engineers in fabricating and testing of their design
concepts. This includes Assembly, testing, installations and
characterization of the system on the mainframe. Additional
responsibilities included, scheduling any activity that might affect
uptime, also included supporting sustaining and maintaining the process
demo.
1999.2000 Project Consultants
Project Manager
Managed New Process Equipment installs on site at Applied Materials.
Required working with The City Permitting Dept., Constructions
Contractors, 3rd
party evaluation company and Equipment Division
owners Along with onsite Safety teams to insure all requirements prior
to installation where met.
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1989-1998 Maxim Integrated Products
Equipment Engineering Supervisor

4. Involved with Maxim at its foundry beginnings where the start up team
was an integral part of the core that was responsible for the company’s
net worth from a $300M to a 1B.Initiated, implemented and managed
preventive maintenance programs for all manufacturing equipment.
Including Implant, Photo, and diffusion. Worked closely with all
equipment engineers to ensure that the proper protocol was met during
all stages in developing a highly successful maintenance system, ICLAR.
Enabled manufacturing line to become production ready, justification of
all equipment purchases, including qualification of equipment.
Preventive maintenance specifications were created adjacent to
installation of equipment. Generated cost analysis specific to equipment
requirements.
Promoted from Equipment Engineer to Lead Equipment Engineer
during the first year of my employment. Shortly thereafter was
promoted to Equipment Engineer Supervisor.
Process yields increased dramatically increased dramatically after
implementing my system of preventive maintenance.
Failure analysis of individual equipment was driven by data acquisition
using Statistical Process Control (SPC).
1987-1989 Saratoga Semiconductor
Equipment Engineer
Responsible for all Applied Material and Lam etch equipment.
Initiated proper stocking of all critical parts based on a failure rate
analysis of each individual machine type.
Upgraded pertinent critical documentation to account for equipment
related changes/failures.
1986-1987 Gasonics
Field Service Engineer
Supported all equipment-related needs to the customer. Provided
technical support to each customer by phone as well as on site service
report.
Job required excellent verbal communication skills.
1985.1986 VLSI Technology
Maintenance engineer
Responsible for maintaining all etch equipment for manufacturing area.
Increased the equipment utilization from 48% to a documented 92%.
Processed yields increased accordingly with the stabilization of the
equipment productivity.
Implemented preventive maintenance program to monitor equipment
reliability.
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1981-1985 Applied Materials

5. Final Test Technician.
Completed final tests on all AME dry etch equipment in Manufacturing.
Worked 1 year in Research and Development of future Dry Etch
products.
Graduate of Technical Training Institute
References: Available upon request.
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6. Final Test Technician.
Completed final tests on all AME dry etch equipment in Manufacturing.
Worked 1 year in Research and Development of future Dry Etch
products.
Graduate of Technical Training Institute
References: Available upon request.
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