BIOGRAPHY
John Ostrowski is the Vice President of Engineering & Deputy General Manager of the Wet Equipment Business Unit (WETS) at Lam Research, where he manages the engineering teams across the 3 development sites for WETS equipment. He has been working at Lam Research for 34 years. He is also responsible for operational activities that focus on improving quality and improving financial performance.
John started his career at Lam over 30 years ago as a field service engineer where he spent several years onsite at customer locations, starting up, and maintaining many of the deposition systems offered by Lam Research (then Novellus Systems). During this time, he worked in North America, Asia and Europe to help proliferate systems worldwide eventually becoming the Field Service Manager based in Crolles France.
Before becoming the VP of Engineering, John worked in different positions within the Electrofill Business Unit. Starting in the initial development team for SABRE in 1996 as the Electrical and Systems Engineer. As the product was introduced into customer sites, he helped to ensure the proper support was in place and worked on reliability improvement. He later moved to a Program Manager position tasked with ensuring successful penetration into a large device manufacturer. From this experience it was a natural transition into the management of the Global Product Support team for the Electrofill BU and then taking over the Director of Engineering position for SABRE 3D and eventually the Product Line Head of SABRE 3D.
John received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from DeVry in Decatur, Georgia and has over 10 US patents. View his LinkedIn profile by clicking here.