Christopher A. Hunt (972) 672-6875 ~ Chuntag95@gmail.com ~ Dallas, Texas ~ www.linkedin.com/in/CHuntAg95

SUMMARY

• Hands on leader who utilizes Gemba philosophy to develop a positive work environment.• Proven ability to prioritize and meet goals as a team leader, member or an individual contributor.• Experience in developing operation excellence and driving continuous improvement to yield

benchmark cost, quality, delivery, service and lead time by implementing Lean, Six Sigma and other quality tools.

• Extensive experience in developing and facilitating preventive and predictive maintenance and standard work practices to promote continuous improvement through focus on key metrics.

• Demonstrated ability in managing large capital projects in both equipment ($67M) and facilities ($9M).

• Experienced in equipment selection, specification, negotiation and qualification.• Able to handle complex and confidential issues while maintaining the highest levels of integrity.

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX 2011-2015Thin Films Senior Equipment Engineer 2011-2015• Engineer for 8 inch Class 1 research, development and production facility. Responsible for $67M

in capital equipment supporting a 24 x 7 operation.• Managed the Cu Barrier Seed, FeRAM, PZT and Magcore processes for metal deposition.• Worked to improve tool utilization, process CP/CPk and 5S practices.• Increased consumable parts usage by 26%, reducing costs and defect counts by 63%. • Directed tool creation and modification as required to develop and improve the process and

increase throughputs.

Motorola Inc., (formerly Symbol Technologies), Reynosa Mexico 2005-2010Engineering Site Lead 2010• Led all Engineering and Product Change Management operations for 4 business units.• Set up Engineering Council to provide direction in technology development, resource alignment

and strategy for the site including Process, Test, Industrial Engineering and Quality organizations.• Developed structure to cover 24x7 operations while maintaining budget and minimizing overtime.• Held metrics reviews to look at all engineering and operations metrics including yield, DPMU,

efficiency, and release to production time. • Developed capacity models for equipment and personnel. • Collaborated with all external engineering teams, customers and suppliers to resolve any issues in

the product or process design or supplier quality.

Director of Manufacturing Operations 2008-2010• Improved PCBA production productivity by 34.7% reducing OT by 33.7% over the same period.• Worked with corporate supply chain leadership to define business and manufacturing strategy for

Reynosa operations including business case development, ROI and risk mitigation strategies.• Created quoting process that resulted in 95% success rate in winning new business and improved

accuracy of actual production costs vs. initial quote.• Led factory cost reduction initiative that resulted in over $10M in cost reduction and avoidance

resulting in a 12% reduction in 4 wall costs.• Established a new business with $11M budget, over 1000 employees, running manufacturing and

engineering, and interfacing with customers, the business and design teams.• Implemented over 250 poka yokes or error proofing devices in the first year to drive a zero defect

culture resulting in 50% year over year reduction in DPMU.• 15% year over year reduction in standard labor hours.• Set up repair facilities to drive down cycle time by over 60% improving customer satisfaction.• Led the facilities team including disaster planning and recovery as well as capital planning and

execution for the building expansion and retrofits required each year.

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Transition Director 2007-2008• Directed startup of all operations including engineering, manufacturing, planning, purchasing and

quality including metrics.• Created and led a new cross functional team of managers and engineers to introduce Motorola

products into the Reynosa Factory in addition to New Product Introduction team responsibilities.• Improved product release yields from 63% to 95% for both new and legacy products.• Completed 100k square foot expansion from shell including power, data and office spaces.• Transferred 14 programs on time and under budget with $1.4B revenue per year.• Programs required developing business case, budget, hiring, training strategy, infrastructure

requirements, capital equipment selection, IT development and lean transformation plan. • Improved manufacturing processes before transition to recoup over 30k square foot of space.

New Product Introduction Senior Manager 2006-2007• Led the Reynosa New Product Introduction Organization which partners with corporate Product

Development Organizations to introduce products directly into Reynosa, MX production factory.• Directed program management, engineering, line setup and balancing implementation.• Deployed lean manufacturing, six sigma and concurrent engineering methodologies to meet

metrics before transition to sustaining.

RFID Inlay Production and New Product Introduction Senior Manager 2005-2006• Launched RFID manufacturing operations in less than 6 months leading all engineers, technicians

and operators including recruiting, hiring, training, production ramp up of 24x7 operations under budget, ahead of schedule and achieving stretch objective for production quantities and revenue.

• Increased OEE from 57 to 82% and reduced changeover time from 12 hours to 20 minutes.• Reduced scrap 88% by developing new techniques for change over and maintenance.• Led corporate RFID engineering team to improve yields from 60% to 97%.• Managed expense budget of over $4M and reduced operational expenses by over $1M per year.

Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX 1999-2005Logic and Technology Equipment Manager 2002-2005• Project Manager responsible for the identification, scale up and transfer of process equipment and

requirements for each new technology node. Transferred from 200mm R&D to high volume 300mm production facility.

• Ensured capital packages, purchase specifications, negotiations, scheduling and installation of new process tool sets were correct and completed in a timely manner.

• Provided emergency engineering resources for any issues risking program qualification schedule.

Thin Films Senior Equipment Engineer 1999-2002• Engineer from start-up through benchmark sustaining performance of state of the art 8 inch Class

1 research, development and production facility. • Managed parts and material cost reduction for the Thin Films module including budgeting and

forecasting saving over $2M per year. Developed the tracking program with IT and trained all other module champions.

• Managed cost and SPC control the equipment engineering including procedures, calculation methodology, six sigma and Tukey-Kramer outlier removal, training and certification of engineers.

Marlow Industries, Inc., Dallas, TX 1998-1999Process Engineer• Engineer responsible for process improvement for Defense, Space and Photonics modules.• Supervised two technicians including project assignments and training.

Texas Instruments (formerly TwinStar Semiconductor Inc.), Richardson, TX 1995-1998 Thin Films Equipment Engineer

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical EngineeringTexas A&M University – College Station, Texas

Arts and Sciences – General Associates Degree with emphasis on electronicsEastfield Community College – Mesquite, Texas