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Member of the Noise and Timing, specializing in software quality, testing and results verification. Lead developer and software architect for comparative analysis engine to streamline qualification and release of other applications. Software quality lead for noise and electromigration (EM) tools.Key Accomplishments:- Designed, developed and supported a comparative analysis application to stress other applications and compare the results of multiple runs. Resultant comparisons are now required prior to release of several in-house applications. - Developed application to correlate spice simulations with in house noise tools.- Software quality leader for noise team. - Designed and developed tech-file generation application. Generating all electromigration related tech files from a single database.- Implemented a web-based electromigration calculator in conjunction with EM database engine.Environment: Perl, Java, Cadence Skill++, TCL, SQL, Make, Jenkins, Sonar, DevOpsMember of the layout automation team specializing in placement and extraction.Key Accomplishments:- Redeveloped a schematic driven relative placement engine from the ground up. Which reduced run times by over 50% and failure rate by over 75%. Increased capabilities for the support of SRAM and Array based layouts. Patent: “Method and System for Generating A Placement Layout of a VLSI Circuit Design”- Supported Steiner based extraction engine. Reworked parts to reduce run time by over 50 percent.- Developed application to allow semi-custom and memory designers to use a cell based 2.5d extraction engine in their design environment.Environment: Perl, Java, Cadence Skill++, TCL, Make

Managed a team of 5 Design Automation engineers in AMD’s Global CAD Infrastructure group distributed between Fort Collins CO and Austin TX sites. - Primary interface between CAD and Systems IT teams. - Technical lead for CAD Infrastructure team. - Primary infrastructure and IT support for new Fort Collins design center during first 3 months of initial site bring-up. - Projects include design data management, web based design dashboard development, software practices, software configuration management, and release management.

- Helped setup and evaluate Intel proprietary design tools. (Tcl, Bash) - Initiated analog design automation group to support mixed signal design engineers in the Itanium development group.

- As principal Software Architect and Chief Technology Officer, directed all IT operations, including infrastructure design/administration and physical design software development.- Maintained Physical Design Kits (PDKs), providing semiconductor design engineers and mask designers with device-specific design rules & input files. - Supported software, developed new pcells & scripts and assisted users in debugging software tools.

- Directed software development, release and support for high-quality electrical design kits. Worked closely with IT to design and rollout the UNIX production environment and bring multi-site LSF in-house. Managed a staff of 3 Design Automation Engineers. - Primary architect behind the development and implementation of the physical design kits (PDKs), supporting a full front-to-back Cadence design flow, including symbols, models, pcells and Mentor Calibre runsets. - Managed the company-wide release, regression testing and distribution of design kits tagged in the CVS repository.