Robert Freeze

Current

Socail Media Specialist at Social Collector

Past

Sr. Applications Engineer at Negevtech
Yield Enhancement Engineer at Atmel
Sustaining Defect Technician – Process Engineering at Atmel

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Education

Brigham Young University

Recommended

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Connections

102 connections

Industry

Semiconductors

Websites

Robert Freeze’s Summary

robertfreeze@hotmail.com
Phone: (208) 230-3720

I am your Social Media expert who can take you and your company to the next level. Create the dialog customers, fans and consumers are looking for.

I am a dynamic and innovative hard working engineer with vast experience in the semiconductor industry through the whole process spectrum. I also have experience as a project manager and in quality control - both of which are highly transferable across multiple manufacturing industries.

Social Media Consulting, Boise, ID - Mar. 2009 – Present
Social Media Consultant – various clients
- Social Media advertising strategic planning and implementation.
- Training on social media tools – including executive training.
- Maintaining, tracking and reporting on social media accounts.
Editor for Family Nester – Family Life Blog, & Social Collector – Social Media Blog
- Main blog writer for both sites.
- Maintaining all customization, graphic design
- Maintiaining Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed accounts for both sites.

Negevtech Inc., Boise, ID - Nov. 2005 - Nov. 2008
Sr. Applications Engineer (semiconductor defect inspection tools):
- Project manager for several tool installations and evaluations.
- Maintained on-site customer needs.
- Site Lead in Boise Idaho.
- Primary Head to Head engineer for Negevtech Inc.
- Mentor for other applications engineers.

ATMEL Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO - Jan. 2003 - Nov. 2005
BiCMOS and Custom ASIC Yield Engineer:
- Product manager of 5 BiCMOS/custom ASIC product lines.
- Oversaw processing, testing, CPK reporting and yields.
- Integrated new products into the fab.
- Maintained yields by working with all engineering departments.

ATMEL Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO - Dec. 2000 - Jan. 2003
Sustaining Defect Technician - Process Engineering:
- Sustaining of in fab defect inspection work.
- Performed defect reduction experiments and projects.

Robert Freeze’s Specialties:

Semiconductor Processing:
- Process Integration.
- Yield Enhancement.
- Defect Reduction and in-line inspection.
- Semiconductor Process Equipment Applications Engineering
- Quality Control.
- SPC and DOE
- Product Management.
- Marketing.

Social Media:
- Blogger
- Wordpress
- Wordpress theme customization
- HTML, CSS, and PHP editing
- Gimp, Illustrator, and Photoshop

Robert Freeze’s Experience

Socail Media Specialist

Social Collector

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

March 2009 — Present (10 months)

I help companies and individuals use all that is new in social media. From helping you use twitter, for you and your business, to creating an in depth social media marketing plan to take your company into the web 3.0.
Sr. Applications Engineer

Negevtech

(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

November 2005 — November 2008 (3 years 1 month)

Negevtech Inc., Boise, ID - Nov. 2005 - Nov. 2008
Sr. Applications Engineer (semiconductor defect inspection tools):
- Project manager for several tool installations and evaluations.
- Maintained on-site customer needs.
- Site Lead in Boise Idaho.
- Primary Head to Head engineer for Negevtech Inc.
- Mentor for other applications engineers.

Select Accomplishments at Negevtech Inc.:

- Helped secure several tool purchases through head to head comparisons to competitor tools. Comparisons on 3 generations of tools winning multiple tool purchases at several sites. Comparisons were done on devices from sub 70nm to sub 40nm FLASH and DRAM Parts.

- Maintained extensive recipe needs for main customer.

- Used extensively for tool demos to do both the recipe creation and evaluation, and for consultation. Initial demos on Negevtech’s latest tool resulted in initial tool betas at 2 sites that then led to multiple tool orders.

- Aided marketing in developing marketing material. Created Application notes and marketing material used to win interest in the tool with new customers.
Yield Enhancement Engineer

Atmel

(Public Company; ATML; Semiconductors industry)

January 2003 — November 2005 (2 years 11 months)

ATMEL Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO - Jan. 2003 - Nov. 2005
BiCMOS and Custom ASIC Yield Engineer:
- Product manager of 5 BiCMOS/custom ASIC product lines.
- Oversaw processing, testing, CPK reporting and yields.
- Integrated new products into the fab.
- Maintained yields by working with all engineering departments.

Select Accomplishments at ATMEL Corp.:

- Drove yield issues to root causes, coordinating efforts with Process, Product, and Design Engineering—proposing, testing, and implementing solutions; where necessary evaluating solutions in coordination with Quality Assurance.

- Improved E-test product CPK values on all managed products lines (% of parameters with a CPK greater than 1.67).

- Spearheaded the transfer of a 1um BiCMOS part from an acquired Fab creating initial yields of 93%.

- Drove process improvements on a 3Volt/5Volt 0.6um ASIC product line improving yields on all parts 5-10% over 1 year.
Sustaining Defect Technician – Process Engineering

Atmel

(Public Company; ATML; Semiconductors industry)

December 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 2 months)

ATMEL Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO - Dec. 2000 - Jan. 2003
Sustaining Defect Technician - Process Engineering:
- Sustaining of in fab defect inspection work.
- Performed defect reduction experiments and projects.

Robert Freeze’s Education

Brigham Young University

BS , Applied Physics , 1997 — 2000

Applied Physics specializing in device physics and semiconductor processing.

Activities and Societies:

IEEE officer

Additional Information

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Robert Freeze’s Interests:

Helping companies with their social media needs. Working in Semiconductors - helping companies improve quality through defect reduction and yield enhancement.