Heather
Looney

Project Management | Technical Delivery

I bring structure, clarity, and momentum to complex technical work.

SARASOTA, FLORIDA
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About

My career runs from the fab floor through manufacturing systems into enterprise software. I started as an MES end user, then moved into configuring and supporting the systems behind manufacturing execution.

Today I lead execution across concurrent enterprise software upgrade initiatives for a global semiconductor manufacturer. I bring project-management structure to readiness, dependencies, risk, decisions, and deployment sequencing while coordinating across Engineering, QA, Infrastructure, Product Management, partners, and customer IT. None of them report to me.

17
years across semiconductor manufacturing and enterprise software
15
fabs in one global account, across the US and Asia
31
readiness items spanning seven technical domains
9
consecutive quarters of high supplier scorecard ratings
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What I Help Create

The conditions that help complex work move.

Clarity

Everyone understands the goal.

Ownership

The right people are involved, accountable, and clear on their role.

Alignment

Customer, internal, and partner teams work toward the same outcome.

Visibility

Risks, decisions, and dependencies live where people can see them.

Momentum

Stakeholders stay engaged and the work keeps moving.

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How I Operate

Five things you can count on.

01
Make Ownership Visible.
Responsibilities are clear, understood, and visible across the teams involved.
02
Surface Risk Early.
Give people time to act before they’re blindsided.
03
Bring the Right People In.
Trusted relationships make it easy to pull in the right expertise quickly.
04
Capture the Decision.
No ambiguity about the decision, owner, or next step.
05
Keep the Customer Aligned.
Clear updates, shared understanding, no surprises.
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I Built a Way to Keep the Story Straight.

Project context is scattered by default. I built an AI-assisted Work OS in Claude Code that turns it into persistent project memory across projects, people, decisions, and timelines.

INPUTS
email threads meeting context decisions action items dates & timelines assumptions
WORK OS Context engineered by Heather
Built with Claude Code
The project remembers.

Context stays connected across people, workstreams, decisions, and time.

Important conclusions stay linked to their source.

OUTCOMES
History reconstructed
Decisions traceable to source
Conflicting assumptions surfaced
Dependencies caught earlier
Source-backed answers
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Career

From the fab floor to global technical delivery and project leadership.

MICRON TECHNOLOGY / IM FLASH · MAY 2004 – AUG 2017
Senior Technician, Control Systems Management

Started in semiconductor manufacturing operations and progressed to Senior Technician, Control Systems Management, supporting MES and control systems for fab operations. Selected for a five-month on-site assignment supporting Intel’s Fab 68 startup in Dalian, China, configuring MES automation end to end and mentoring local engineering and technician teams.

CAREER BREAK · AUG 2017 – NOV 2022
Planned Career Break

Recruited by Applied Materials in 2022 to return to enterprise software.

APPLIED MATERIALS · NOV 2022 – PRESENT
SW (Tech) Support Engineer
Career track: Technical Project/Program Management II Senior
PROJECT-ORIENTED DELIVERY · JAN 2026 – PRESENT

Since January 2026, I have led execution across a peak portfolio of four concurrent enterprise software upgrade initiatives for a global semiconductor manufacturer operating 15 fabs across the US and Asia. I authored the 31-item readiness framework spanning seven technical domains and 25 blocking requirements, I am the Applied owner on five of six joint sign-off conditions required before kickoff, and I chair the weekly Applied E3 Change Control Board with 30 to 35 cross-functional stakeholders.

EARLIER CUSTOMER-FACING TECHNICAL DELIVERY · NOV 2022 – JAN 2026

Earlier in my Applied tenure, I was the primary technical contact for Applied E3 across 10 fabs in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, working directly with customer engineering and IT stakeholders through technical delivery.

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What Matters to Me

INTEGRITY
Do the right thing, even when it’s inconvenient.
AUTHENTICITY
People do their best work when they can be themselves.
RESPECT
People’s time, intelligence, and contributions should never be taken for granted.
BALANCE
Hold the standard. Keep the fun.
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Let’s Talk.

If you’re looking for someone who brings clarity, accountability, and a real path to delivery when there are a lot of moving pieces, let’s connect.

Sarasota, Florida