Reference Check
| Employees Name: | Ian McMartin | |||
| Company: | Infineon AG + Qimonda AG | Phone: | +49 351 4388 6235 +49 172 795 01 75 (mobile) | |
| Supervisor: | Joachim Frey | Title: | Senior Principal Production Automation | |
| Contractor's Job Title: | Various roles from Senior Engineer when started working for Infineon over Staff Engineer up to Group Manager and Senior Project Manager | |||
| Dates of Employment: | From: | 2001 | To: | 02 / 2009 |
Project Description:
Describe the overall project including the size and scope:
Mr McMartin worked for me from September 2001, when I took over the word-wide team for MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems), till February 2009. He was hired by my predecessor a few months earlier. During this time Mr McMartin successfully worked in several roles with growing responsibilities.
He was hired in 2001 as a technical expert for the new MES (Manufacturing Execution System) we just selected. After a very short time he took over the technical lead within the team of 8 experts due to his technical expertise, his ability to quickly analyze and resolve problems and his open and pro-active communication within the team and beyond.
In 2003 Mr McMartin took over the lead of the world-wide system installation and implementation activities. Within this role he supported the migration of a running, fab-wide MES in our Assembly Facility in Porto (
In 2004 Mr McMartin joined the MES development and implementation project for our new 300mm-wafer fab in
In 2005 Mr McMartin took over the responsibility as a Manager to setup the central Integration & Test Center for all Automation Applications world-wide and relocated to Dresden (Germany) for ca. 1 year. In this role had the disciplinary lead of 12 internal experts and led an overall team of up to 40 internal and external experts across the IT organization. He setup the central Integration & Test Center and redefined the world-wide binding SW Development Process to ensure that all newly developed or changed SW is being thoroughly tested before being deployed to the production sites.
In 2007 Mr McMartin returned back to the
Cultural Environment:
Describe the working environment of this team / department.
During the years within our company Mr McMartin successfully worked in a truly global, multi-national organization. In the various projects and activities he dad to deal with many, many different cultures and had to manage various critical situations with the multi-cultural colleagues.
In his roles as lead for world-wide system installations and a Senior Project Manager for all system installations, migrations and upgrades world-wide he spent countless weeks and months in Portugal, Germany, Austria, Malaysia, China and Singapore and work very closely with the local colleagues and the international team of SW and deployment experts.
Also Mr McMartin got familiar with and successfully operated in a truly global matrix organization and in globally distributed, virtual teams.
Job Duties & Technologies:
Describe the individual's role and responsibilities including day-to-day duties and technologies used.
See above for roles & responsibilities, main tasks and related job profile.
Technologies: Microsoft Server Environment, Oracle (mainly on HP UX), high-availability solutions, Active Directory, Applied Materials FAB300, various SW Development Environments and Tools, SW Development Processes.
| ASSESSMENTS |
| Technical Performance & Ability: Describe the individual's technical knowledge and ability to perform the job. Broad knowledge on Microsoft-based high performance, high availability server environments. Oracle DB setup, optimization and operation, mainly on HP UX. Microsoft Active Directory, VMware. Deep knowledge on MES – Manufacturing Execution Systems – for semiconductor production facilities. In specific good know-how on FactoryWorks / 300works from Applied Materials (before Brooks) and key expert know-how on FAB300 from Applied Materials ! Key expert know-how especially in the field of system setup, stability, performance, system optimization, base components, etc.. Vast network with related experts in the industry. SW Development Process know-how, especially with regard to testing and quality assurance, deployment and implementation, operation and optimization, change management and SW life cycle management. |
| Non-Technical Skills : Describe the individual's ability to communicate and interact with the team. Mr McMartin was highly respected and recognized colleague within the world-wide IT and manufacturing organization. Respected and recognized due to his technical knowledge and due to consistently delivering outstanding results, making things happen and consistently striving for customer satisfaction while consistently keeping calm and polite even in extremely stressful situations. Mr McMartin is the perfect team player, inserting in any team or by leading any team (multi-national, cross functional). And he is also pro-actively taking leadership where necessary to overcome and resolve critical situation. When being part of a team of when leading teams he fosters team spirit, motivates the team to ‘make the impossible happen’ and ensures overall success. Mr McMartin uses a clear, precise and structured approach when presenting plans, status information of technical information. As already outlined above Mr McMartin is very talented to work in a multi-cultural, cross functional environment. He shows the best performance in very challenging (technical, schedule, external influences) tasks and projects. |
| Strengths & Weaknesses: How would you describe the individual's strengths? How would you describe the individual's areas for improvement? + technical know-how + own motivation, enthusiasm, stamina, giving 200% if required to make the task/project successful + high flexibility to take over new tasks and challenges, with regard to travel and work abroad for an extended period of time + ability to motivate others and to foster team spirit, building up good relationships with internal and external colleagues and partners + very professional and effective in working in matrix, multi-cultural, cross functional and cross company teams and making things happen by using the strengths of this setup and by avoiding the stumbling blocks. ^ Mr McMartin shows his best performance in ‘new endeavors’, very challenging tasks and projects, multi-cultural / cross-functional setups. While he could deliver superb results when being assigned operational tasks and duties it would definitely not be the best use of his abilities and talents. |
| Attendance and Reliability: What were the individual's expected work hours and how would you rate their attendance and reliability? 40 hours / week - however Mr McMartin is working 24x7, day & night, weekends, etc. – without being requested to do this - during critical situations and to make projects successful. For many years he was doing an ‘unofficial’ 24x7 hotline being called whenever a system issue occurred somewhere in the world as he was the only one able to quickly analyze and resolve critical and difficult problems. |
| Rehire Eligibility: Would you rehire this person for this type of project? |
| Additional Comments: What additional comments would you like to add? It was always fun to work with Mr McMartin and to have him in the global team ! His consistently outstanding performance was a major contributor to the success of my organization. I would hire him again whenever I would get the chance to do so. Without any reservation I can recommend Mr McMartin to any company. With his abilities, skills and motivation he would be a tremendous asset in any company ! |
