Wendell Tamonan

Experience

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  Texas Instruments

  Jun 2004 - Feb 2015

  Senior Product Test Engineer

  Acted as the central resource between design, assembly manufacturing, test engineering, quality engineering, and capacity planning as the products move from assembly to distribution. Direct interaction with other team members from other Texas Instruments sites like Taiwan, France and USA. Managed multiple product portfolios like Analog, Digital Radio Infotainment (DRI) and Wireless.Major responsibilities:1. Executed test software and hardware qualifications of newly developed /released products.2. Collaborated with cross-functional teams in creating new testing schemes, implemented test program changes to improve yield and quality of product.3. Hands-on troubleshooting various test hardware (VLSI testers & handlers) and software issues to maximize throughput. 4. Analyzed high volume test data using Spotfire (TIBCO) software to understand correct root cause of low yielding materials and safeguard product quality. 5. Technical product sustaining solving structural Device Wont Pass and Yield issues. 6. Failure verification and analysis including disposition of outlier materials in cooperation with Quality team.7. Planned test equipment allocation and material movement under constraints to meet shipments on time. 8. Conducted test conversions, test time reduction (TTR) and test flow simplification to improve production capacity. Show less

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  Siliconware Precision Industries

  Feb 2015 - Jan 2021

  Senior Product /Process Integration Engineer

  Managed the development of new lead frame-based packages and new products (Flip Chip-MQFN, QFN, MR-QFN, QFP Series) from design, assembly qualification until HVM.Major responsibilities:1. Planned and executed every stage of Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) and New Product Introduction (NPI) to ensure smooth execution of project.2. Collaborated customer design requirements and internal process capability to achieve optimum package design.3. Establish Technical Risk Assessment (TRA) on new device/product based on customer specification and existing product baseline.4. Defined assembly process flow for new products.5. Executed package qualification and implemented suitable Reliability stress tests according to industry standard.6. Generated and issued failure analysis and 8D reports for internal and external customers and follow-up identified actions until closure.7. Prepared technical and high-level reports to customer and presented during QTR/QBR meetings.8. Drive cross functional team across assembly for continuous process improvements conducting DOE and applying problem solving methodologies.9. Conducted ECN and implemented PCN. Show less

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  Molekule

  Jan 2021 - Sept 2023

  Manufacturing Test Engineer

  Worked as a manufacturing test engineer for indoor FDA-grade air purifier devices in a fast-paced team with direct interaction with other team members at CMs in China and Malaysia as well as Molekule, Firmware development and Electrical design in North America and India. Major responsibilities:1. Tasked to develop appropriate factory training and facilitate associated trainers to support the Contract Manufacturer (CM).2. In charge of supervising the CM in China and Malaysia to ensure tester uptime and debug production issues of consumer electronics. 3. Developed test software and automated tests in LabVIEW environments that will be used in testing at sub-assembly level and final product.4. Developed sustainable and reusable manufacturing test processes and tools working with Jira and Confluence environment.5. Test and verify functionality of new firmware for FDA-grade air purifiers.6. Conducted control run for Engineering change request and submitted PCN to update related specifications in the Arena to implement the improvement.7. Managed databases for auto test logs and analyze test data with Excel, Tableau, Spotfire. Show less