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Milind F.

DEG Design Engineering Manager - ESD

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Some of the best things that have happened to me in my life and career are because of networking and communication! I love to meet new people and get to know them through various means. I have forged some lifelong friendships too. Networking is so important when you want to collaborate with different teams. With networking and collaboration, I was able to learn a lot of new processes that were not known to be before nor they were available as part of any training. I was able to innovate outside of my design scope to be able to create a solution for us to make layouts for our experiments faster and more efficient, I was even recognized in the Technology Development group for this innovation. You don't just have to network and create relationships and maintain them in a company - you can do this in all walks of life. I met some amazing people through various volunteer opportunities, community outreach that have helped me become a better person. Micron has so many opportunities to network with people. We have Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) like Micron Young Professionals, Pride +Allies, Black Employee Network, Women's Leadership Network and so many more... There are a lot of events and clubs for various hobbies and activities too. And if you don't find some particular group, you can always start one!

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Career path

Senior ESD and Latch-up Engineer

Micron North America and EMEA

From 01/2017 to 04/2022

Digital Design Engineer

Micron North America and EMEA

From 06/2011 to 07/2014

Analog Design Verification Engineer - Intern

Micron North America and EMEA

From 04/2015 to 08/2015

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What do you like about your job and the company?

I love working for Micron because this company gives a vast opportunity to innovate and bring solutions that help create memory products that are practically used in all the devices that we use in our daily lives. Our lives are enriched by these devices that we use to do various things in all walks of life including communicate, educate, appliances, automotive and even medical devices and space stuff. To know that I am able to help create these products and keep them safe from the reliability concerns of ESD and Latch-up is truly rewarding. Being able to help make a positive impact in everyone's lives has always been my lifelong dream and to achieve this I am consciously making decisions everyday to just do that.

Greatest achievements

I was recently recognized by Micron Leadership for our innovative work on making experimental layouts with a new method quickly and more efficiently. This work was a direct result of networking, collaboration, and tenacity in finding solutions and better ways to do my work. One of the projects in Emerging Memory Technology had a major framework update which required lots of resources diverted. We had quite a few experimental layouts planned for future technology node but we did not have the tools to create those layout in the new framework. We could do it with old method or manually draw each layers, however it would have been time consuming and potentially we would have had to scale back our experiments too. I was pursuing a new and efficient method. I had remembered a conversation between a colleague in India and I, regarding their past work experiences before they joined Micron Technology in India. That triggered into a discussion of the possibilities for this new methodology. We decided to collaborate on this project on our extra time and spent many nights developing it. In the end, we were able to successfully integrate this new methodology and create all the required layouts for our experiments two weeks before the deadline. This new method can be ported to other technologies as well. We were given an opportunity to present our new method to Micron Leadership in a Singapore summit and they even recognized our work on a department scale in an email newsletter.

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Discussions with Milind F
Does Micron provide training before starting the actual role?
in Career Tips·Thursday, January 13, 2022
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I am looking for options to go back to work again. the role i am interested in is IC Layout Design
in Career Tips·Wednesday, May 4, 2022
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What training is provided for newly-hired graduates?
in Application process·Tuesday, September 7, 2021
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I am male and I am wondering if this is exclusively a female event?
in Career Tips·Wednesday, May 4, 2022
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I'm planning to graduate in August this year. Can you give me some suggestions, please?
in Career Tips·Thursday, January 13, 2022
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