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Boudewijn de Jong (PhD)

Senior Scientist at Philips Research

Email: boudewijn.de.jong@philips.com

Linked-in: nl.linkedin.com/pub/boudewijn-de-jong/11/442/5b3/

Date of birth: March 7th, 1978

Cell phone: +31 617428573

Introducing myself

I am inspired and motivated by stretch assignments challenging me to walk the road least traveled

and explore new territories. Colleagues value my ability to cope with, and give clear direction to

initially ambiguous assignments. I experience most satisfaction while teaming up to build on key

breakthroughs that offer great growth-potential for your business. In my job, I flourish by adopting

an integral and cross discipline approach towards generating clear-cut insights resulting in fast

development cycles for transfer to engineering. At the bases of this way of working lies my broad

interest in various technical disciplines and perseverance, which are my drives for success. In my

team, colleagues rely and trust on each other’s expertise, which in turn leads to achievements that

overshadow each individual's strength.

I am ambitious, objective focused and actively building on my professional and personal

development through learning on the job and targeted courses. This is reflected in a year-on-year high

performance appraisal and recognition as a high-potential.

Next to project related activities, I actively contribute to competence development and out-side-in

technology scouting for the advancement of critical-to-business know-how and capabilities.

Experience

Senior Scientist at Philips Research

January 2011 - Present (4 years 7 months)

Achievements:

LED module and LED bulb development: Philips’ lighting business has endured exponential

times in LED transformation during the past decade. I have been at the forefront of many LED

product developments, in particular a LED bulb reviving the glass bulb production technology.

Electronics system integration for LED lighting: With LEDs, lighting is ready for a digitally

enabled future. To build this future, I developed architectures that bring control electronics and

LEDs closer together by reusing electronic packaging technology1.

Digital manufacturing technologies for electronics system integration: Manufacturing

technologies are becoming digital and democratized. I am involved in the exploration of DM

technologies (3D printing, printed electronics, topological optimization, 3D scanning) for new

production methods and new business development.

Technology scouting: I made a blog on the group share-point site to share and give attention to

outside-in technology developments that trigger new projects for our group. Of course I am

among the main contributors.

IP generation: During my employment at Philips I contributed to 28+ invention disclosures, 14

patent filings of which one is currently granted a patent.

1 B. R. de Jong et al., “Heterogeneous packaging for mixed LED and electronic packages”, EMPC, Grenoble, Sept. 2013

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Personal development:

Team-leader Smart Sensors competence team: With this team I give shape to the sensor

competence for Philips Research, bringing people involved in the smart sensor field together,

writing a white-paper on the importance of smart sensors for the Philips business, setting up a

wiki-page on the smart sensors subject.

I bridged the Atlantic between Research (NL) – Lumileds (USA) for a joint development project

while acting as a visiting team member at Philips Lumileds (San Jose) for a three months period.

Providing yearly guest-lectures with a professional/business perspective on electronic packaging

to students for their orientation on micro-systems (topics: application field, design,

manufacturing and reliability). Mechanical engineering faculty, Eindhoven University of

Technology (TUe).

Technologist at Philips Applied Technologies

December 2006 - December 2010 (4 years)

Achievements:

Team leadership and architecture: High precision laser based metrology system module for a

world class semiconductor company (array of 4000+ semicon lasers with 5 μm 3 σ position

accuracy and stability), involving design, architecture, assembly line specification and equipment

selection, pilot manufacturing (first proto in < 6 months’ time), performance evaluation, TPD

preparation, manufacturing process transfer to volume suppliers, aftercare and field data

analysis.

Assembly Process Development: Ultra-clean assembly procedure for an advanced, integrated

MEMS and CMOS assembly in pilot manufacturing for a world class semiconductor company.

LED product architecture and benchmarking: tear-down and competitive analysis of LED lighting

products.

Advanced packaging technology team leader: defining the packaging competence and exchange

of best practices and packaging know-how.

PhD position at University of Twente

November 2002 - November 2006 (4 years)

PhD Thesis:

MEMS design and fabrication of methods for accurate six degrees-of-freedom nanometer resolution

positioning devices. Title of the thesis: "A Six Degrees of Freedom MEMS Manipulator".

Achievements:

Hands-on experience in MEMS device design, fabrication process design and actual fabrication in

the cleanroom of the MESA+ institute. As such I developed practical thin-film design and

fabrication know-how, which I have put to great use during my microsystems architecture role at

Philips.

Research funded by IOP precision technology aiming at knowledge transfer to the business in the

high precision systems field.

Supervising and assisting students during the dynamic systems project where bachelor electrical

engineering students are challenged to device a dynamic system around a transducer like a

loudspeaker, electro-motor, hard disk voice coil motor etc.

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Education

University of Twente

MSc, Electrical Engineering, 1996 - 2002

Master thesis:

A MEMS based low reflection RF power sensor: fabrication in the MESA+ cleanroom, modeling and

characterization of the fabricated devices.

Extracurricular activities:

Chairman of the yearbook comity E.T.S.V. Scintilla

Member of the programming comity for the university campus open air theater

Study trip communication technologies and related assignment for CMG on GPRS (first cell

phone system for internet data transmission)

Internship at Sercalo Ltd. in Neuchatel, Switzerland: implementation of an automated database

system to collect and store data obtained during product validation testing. Sercalo makes MEMS

based devices for the optical fiber telecommunication business.

Skills & Expertise

Microsystems Architecture

R&D

Smart sensors

LED lighting systems

MEMS

Project Management

Technology Scouting and Road mapping

Courses

Focus on Influence

Business Essentials

Principles of Development

Managing Successful Projects

System Architecting

Management Development Center

Interests

Professional:

Technological innovation, new concept creation, translating business needs into technical innovations,

hardware platform development.

Personal:

Visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, design), outdoors activities (MTB, hikes), broadening my

knowledge about various subjects in physics, astronomy, physiology and psychology.

Languages

Dutch (Native proficiency)

English (Full professional proficiency)

French (Limited working proficiency)

German (Limited working proficiency)

Spanish (Elementary proficiency)