Sr. Director R&D Hardware
Vught, The Netherlands
Currently leading several Hardware R&D teams in multiple locations in Europe. Managing roughly 60 engineers with skills varying from Digital IP design, Analog design, SOC design to Embedded Software. Between 1994 and now, I had various positions at Inside Secure in Vught, the Netherlands, starting in 1994 at Pijnenburg Custom Chips, which was renamed into Securealink in 2000. In 2001 Securealink was acquired by SafeNet and in 2008, the ESS division of SafeNet was acquired by AuthenTec. In 2012, AuthenTec was bought by Apple for the finger print reader and the ESS division was sold by Apple to Inside Secure. Responsible for managing several teams across sites in the Netherlands, France and Scotland, with in total 60 hardware and embedded software developers. Primary activities include: customer specific and roadmap development. Working together with customers and internal departments such as sales, product management, finance, marketing and the engineering teams for the execution of development projects. Achievements: - 1-40Gbps IPsec, MACsec packet engines for Networking customers;- Trusted Platform modules to protect assets in secure SOC’s; - Counter measure implementations of AES and PKA engines; - Development for roughly 10 HW-IP modules, Kasumi, SNOW, ZUC, Poly1305, Chacha20, etc;- Transitioning physical and analogue teams of the R&D department into other companies;- New certificates for Common Criteria, ISO-27001 and ISO-9001;- Ramped up a team in Scotland and transformed from SOC to HW-IP design;- Driving a student program to train interns and select the best ones for a job.Experienced in Program management, Scrum, Agile using Jira. Data information management system based on Confluence. CAD tool contracts management for Synopsys, Cadence, Atlassian, PTC, Xilinx. Budgets estimations and financial R&D reports.