SUMMARY

Excellent record of building and managing successful technical teams for

Support, Training, Documentation, Demo Development, Testing & Release.

- VP Pricing Software Operations at Manugistics, supporting clients, R&D, sales and marketing

- Co-founder of Proxy Modeling, a provider of verification and support services for ASIC designers

- Director of Support at Vantage/Viewlogic, an Electronic Design Automation software provider

- Manager of the USA ASIC Design Center for Plessey Semiconductor

- Engineering Manager at Hughes Aircraft’s Newport Design Center

QUALIFICATIONS

§ Close involvement as team player in complex software development for design and enterprise

§ Experienced in design and verification in ASIC and software support environments

§ Proficient with hardware design languages, verification, ATM, Firewire, behavioral modeling, simulation, synthesis, Perl, documentation and training development

EMPLOYMENT

2002-2004 Principal Engineer, Irwin Design Services

Tested and documented “formal verification” IP components including USB, AMBA and PCI Express at Jasper Design. Created and delivered training workshop to improve development methodology for ASIC designers at NEC in Japan, resulting in overhaul of design methodology at 2 divisions. Extensively validated user interface and functionality while creating user guides, on-line help and a training class for enterprise forecasting software at Steelwedge.

2000-2002 VP Product Operations, Manugistics (Talus Solutions)

Assembled software operations group for Talus Solutions, an established consulting company with no history of product support. Recruited 15 for support, documentation, training, demo-development, and release management of enterprise level, J2EE-based pricing software. Implemented processes for successful customer communication and document management. Accurate positioning of product support capabilities and plans was cited as contributing factor in acquisition by Manugistics in Dec2000.

1994-2000 Co-founder / Principal Engineer / President, Proxy Modeling, Inc.

This 5 engineer company aided productivity of ASIC/FPGA design teams and EDA software developers by providing planning, coding, verification, support, documentation services, utilizing expertise in HDLs, synthesis, simulation, verification, modeling, and routing. My technical projects included:

§ NEC: Developed targeted HDL based design methodology to encourage high level design techniques. Analyzed and critiqued existing design flow. Presented training workshop at Shikoku and Ibaragi sites in Japan.

§ Zayante: Testbenches developed for IEEE-1394A link and phy block and chip levels. Model development for B version in both VHDL and Verilog. This work was later productized by Apple as Firewire 800.

§ Boeing/Argo Systems: FPGA design and verification of re-configurable (adaptive computing) telecom Protocol Analyzer chipset.

§ Connectware/AMP Corp: Worked for two years with the ATM switching system development team under direction of Dr. Larry Roberts. Provided testbench development, language and tool support, and model creation for 3 of 5 ASICs. Interesting tasks included analyzing and graphing cell distribution, arbitration fairness, policing policies and performance of various ABR algorithms. Implemented revision control system for the design project team using RCS and C-shell scripts.

§ UC Berkeley Extension, Cirrus, Intel, and Lucent: Created and presented classes including “Intro to VHDL Language”, "VHDL for Synthesis Users", and “VHDL Testbenches” to chip designers and software vendors.

1987-1994 Manager / Director / VP, Vantage Analysis Systems

Vantage developed and marketed the first commercially available VHDL simulator, and grew from 0 to $14M in revenue with 1500 seats in 5 years. The first tech support engineer, I slowly assembled an outstanding customer support team, recognized by surveys as providing the industry leading expertise for early adopter VHDL clients.

§ Delivered world class tool & language support for clients, on-site and remotely

§ Built a team of a dozen top notch design support engineers

§ Designed training classes presented to over 1000 engineers

§ Set and maintained high standards for training and product quality

§ Managed implementation of 5 volume Vantage SpeedWave documentation set

§ Implemented and managed production and shipping department

§ Specified and managed system for order entry, billing, bug tracking, and commissions

§ Contributed significantly as team member to product features and functionality

§ Managed $1.5M operations budget

§ Vantage Employee of the Year 1991

Vantage was acquired by Viewlogic Systems Inc., December 1992.

1986-1987 Application Engineer / Design Center Manager, Plessey Semiconductor

ASIC Application Engineer for U.S., delivering support, quotations, and demos. Created and delivered training courses. Promoted to USA ASIC Design Center Manager of 6 engineers, providing turnkey designs, reviews of customer designs, place & route service, and software support.

1983-1985 Design Engineer / Section Head, Hughes Aircraft, Newport Design Center

Member of Technical Staff in nascent ASIC design and training center. Guided 14 customer designs from verification through route and final test. Promoted to manager of customer engineering group, with staff of 8. Developed signoff methodology, cell libraries, and training materials.

EDUCATION

B.S. Physics, University of Delaware

Master’s Program, Electrical Engineering, University of Delaware, concentration in semiconductor materials, IC fabrication, optical switching, solar cell research

Formerly

Radar Technician, Delaware Air National Guard

Trombonist, Treasurer, Technician: The Whale Band

Currently

Father, traveler, Frisbee tosser, dog hiker, home re-modeler