Dan Cline P.E. ,Pmp, Psm, Itil Email & Phone Number

Plano, Tx

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is an American multinational electronic design automation (EDA) software and engineering services company• As a Sr. Technical Account Executive I was responsible for Account Ownership and Program Management of Large Enterprise Accounts as well as geography accounts which feed the supply chain for Industrial and Consumer Electronic products. I exceeded stretch goal targets for time to closure and delivery (Agile, SCRUM, RCA, PERT, WBS, Critical Path and Baseline Reporting). Maintained high customer satisfaction feedback, on-time delivery, and exceeded sales targets year over year. • Managed benchmark and evaluation criteria to drive vendor consolidation, coordinating activities across Marketing, Sales, R&D and Support to grow segment market share while maintaining high customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. • Leveraged Confluence, SharePoint and W3 task milestone processes to provide on time product delivery. Applied FMEA and generated detailed 8D Root Cause reports as required. • Implemented Agile processes to shorten the timeline for customer qualification.

Plano, Texas

• Managed the Field Engineering Team to enable leading edge consumer electronics customers to deliver high quality products with aggressive delivery schedules. • Interfaced closely with R&D, PE, Sales and Marketing to proliferate solutions and applications to the customers and clients including initial technical discovery. formal technical presentations, benchmark and evaluation engagements and ultimately to sales closure and support after the sale. • Led multiple cross functional Business Interlock Teams and a key contributor for the Operations Team to develop and roll out Timecard, Dashboards and CRM initiatives. Created collaborative Share Point Web Portals to reduce data collection effort from many person weeks to a single day. Provided automated real time reporting to streamline desisons and improve operational efficiency and ROI. I've developed 100's of applications for corporate and client based project management. • Implemented "Lean Process" in conjunction with the Support and R&D teams to improve response time and time to closure. • Lead efforts on "Team Broadening", "Business Acumen" and Recruiting to improve margin, quality and operational efficiency.

Addison, Texas

• Managed Dallas and Houston site engineering resources. • Coordinated operations and infrastructure for both office locations including Linux infrastructure and facilities. • Close working relationship with clients and customers to exceed business objectives including key benchmark/sales wins with Hercules and Star RC. • Expertise in semi-conductor design, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Extraction, Verification, Simulation and Signoff.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Section Manager for IC Design including PDK Development, Circuit Design, Physical Implementation, Routing, Simulation, Physical Verification and Extraction.Skilled in DFT, DFM, BIST, EMIR, SPICE, Synthesis/Simulation, Verification and Signoff. Full “front to back” design flow expertise, Product Engineering/Debug, EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and CAD (Computer Aided Design). • WW Signoff Manager for MOS Memory / Member Technical Staff• EDA Manager and Engineering Supervisor including vendor selection. • Championed MS Project on a semiconductor design to avoid a $30M per week profile loss for late market entry - the design met all milestones and was fully functional on the first release.• Created and Implemented test methodology improvements on an IC design to save a proposed $250M in test cost with no reduction in test coverage.• Member of TI’s CMOS Design Council and SPICE Modeling Council, SRC, and holder of 20 plus patents in Integrated Circuit Design and Test. Expertise in Embedded Micro-controllers, In Circuit Test, Emulation and Debug. Languages include C, C++, Perl, Scripting and application software including Mentor, Cadence, Synopsys, and 3-D Field and Device Modeling.

Masters Degree, Electrical Engineering, Honors

Activities and Societies: IEEE Member and Chairman of Bylaws Committee Eta Kappa Knu

Bachelor'S Degree, Science And Business, Honors

Associate'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering, Honors

Education record

Business Study During Engineering Internship at Ford Electronics