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Lafayette, CO, US

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Head of product management for static and formal verification technologies and solutions

Longmont, Colorado, United States

Siemens Digital Industry Software acquired Mentor Graphics in 3/2017

Longmont, Colorado

Longmont, Colorado

Manage execution of SoC developments for SSD Controllers. Oversee vendor engagements and internal supplier engagements required to deliver a controller to internal partners. Responsible for all business operations of multi-site, multi-national organization including budget, headcount, capital planning and tracking.

Longmont, Colorado

• Responsible for design and verification of CPU Subsystem and Host Interface intellectual property to be deployed in Micron SSD controller SoC integrated circuits. Teams implemented both hardware and object-oriented.
• Adapted development processes and techniques to enable team to deliver results more rapidly, allowing customer requests to be added late… Show more Responsible for design and verification of CPU Subsystem and Host.
• Adapted development processes and techniques to enable team to deliver results more rapidly, allowing customer requests to be added late in development.
• Managed organization of 20 engineers and managers spanning multiple sites.
• Led organization-wide functional micro-architecture efforts, determining and aligning around requirements, defining solutions in areas such as enterprise-class error management and performance improvements. Show less

Longmont, Colorado

• Responsible for SSD Controller IP and SOC Development.Managed intellectual property development efforts. Devised and implemented design prototyping strategies. Managed relationships and development efforts with.
• Worked with start-up companies to implement SSD silicon solutions
• Guided development of a system of inter-connected IP to… Show more Responsible for SSD Controller IP and SOC Development.Managed intellectual property development efforts. Devised and implemented design prototyping.
• Guided development of a system of inter-connected IP to provide maximally flexible SSD datapath hardware and firmware solutions
• Managed complete SoC development effort using this IP and other new firmware-driven IP to implement new SSD storage protocols such as NVMe
• Led development of new modeling techniques to validate performance of architecture, and allow for firmware/hardware co-design

Longmont, Colorado

Led development effort of a 36-port SAS Expander ASIC, distributed across three sites and 18 engineers. Coordinated development efforts with firmware and validation teams, as well as the external ASIC vendor.

Fort Collins, Colorado

• Architected, designed and verified management and I/O elements of a chipset for Enterprise-class compute servers. Served in lead capacity, working with management to determine program plans and assignments.
• Led verification of PCI-Express (Gen 2) implementation using C++ and SystemC.
• Architected PCI-Express Native and ACPI-based Hotplug virtualization solution.
• Led development of chipset interface to the system management infrastructure.

Boulder, Colorado And Milpitas, California

Responsible for product development in the Consumer Products division. Included security, video decoders, a configurable infrastructure for rapid next-generation product deployment, including high-speed memory controllers, and MIPS microprocessor architectures, including definition of industry standards.· Achieved results of exceptional right-first-time.

Mountain View, California

Liaised between factory and customers.

Mountain View, California

Designed ASICs and boards for defense communication applications.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Designed ASICs and circuit boards for defense avionics applications.

Msee, Computer Architecture

Bsee, Circuits, Communication And Control Systems

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