Cheryl Tulkoff

Selected as first formal Reliability engineer in the company. Developed corporate roadmap for closed loop Reliability Program. Selected, procured, and installed a failure analysis lab. Analyzed warranty data and managed quarterly warranty review meetings with R & D teams. Performed root cause and failure analysis of both manufacturing process and HALT failures. Member of core RoHS conversion team. Authored corporate position statement on tin whiskers, developed a process for qualifying provisional RoHS comp

Trained, evaluated, and managed two engineers, four yield manufacturing technicians and two co-op students. Yield enhancement engineer for SRAM, PLD, PROM, and logic technologies in Class 10 cleanroom. Process owner for KLA and Tencor defect inspection equipment. Proficient on JEOL SEM with EDX capability. Designed experiments and used step partitioning to locate and eliminate process defects. Improved and maintained particle statistical process control charts. Worked on fab wide particle reduction activiti

Manufacturing Process Engineer Implemented a no clean wave soldering process; Benchmarked other manufacturing companies. Identified technical process requirements, equipment requirements, and scheduling needs. Obtained capital for new equipment. Chose and tested multiple process materials/chemicals in air and nitrogen environments. Completed Environmental Impact Analyses. Reviewed designs to improve solderability of new products; justified, chose, accepted, and installed new wave solder machines. Ran stat

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