Dan Bethke Email & Phone Number

Retired and loving it. I wouldn't say I'd never go back to work, but not looking for a position at this point.

Managing business and technical needs of accounts in Canada and the Eastern US.

Technical Sales for Engineering Design Automation company. Supporting Integrated Circuit design and analysis tools from front end concept level to back end physical layout and verification. Ability to drive business and technical engagements from senior management to engineer levels. Excellent communications skills to coordinate customer, field and product development groups.• Work with customer to identify areas where Mentor Graphics Corp. (MGC) tools and services could improve their design flow.• Develop detailed tool configurations and business models based on customer needs, then work with the customer to come to a mutual agreement on the business arrangement. This included interaction with the customer from an engineer to senior management.• Work with MGC product groups to improve technical capabilities and marketing value propositions.• Technical support of tools in the following areas: Digital – RTL design, synthesis, simulation.and static timing; Analog – capture, simulation, layout, DRC, LVS, extraction, ERC, and Design For Manufacturing.

• As Training Coordinator develop, organize and deliver Mentor Graphics-based digital and statistical design methodology training throughout AlliedSignal• Developed Web pages to communicate training descriptions, links, schedules and other EDA issues to AlliedSignal employees• Supported CAD/CAE tools as CAE Technology Leader from forecast through purchase, installation, maintenance, training and technical aid to users• Researched and evaluated potential CAE tools with objective of solving existing tool problems and reducing design cycle times• Managed Engineering Design Automation (EDA) SW to reduce yearly maintenance costs by approximately 33%• Successfully implemented VHDL Vital/SDF design methodology resulting in a 50% cycle time reduction for FPGA• Successfully redesigned two 40k gate VLSIC from schematic capture, stimulus generation/conversion, functional simulation, layout, parasitic extraction, timing simulation, fault coverage analysis and test vector generation

• Successfully retargeted existing design to a 40K gate, 1.2 µ VLSIC utilizing Mentor Graphics tools for schematic capture, verification and layout.• Designed 132 pin VLSIC for use in an electronic aircraft identification system. The VLSIC provided control and accumulated built in test information to a MIL-STD-1750 µP.• Derived the VLSIC design specification document from a PWA level specification.• Utilized CRC error detection and scan path technology in VLSIC.

• Co-designed and debugged MC68000 Master/MC68030 Slave processor board hardware for 150 MFLOP Array Processor. Work closely with software engineers during MC68000/MC68030 code debugging using a PC based MC68030 emulator.• Designed 20 board multiwire backpanel bus that utilizes 3 arithmetic processors and 2 control processors. Provided support in mechanical design of the chassis' EMI shielding, cooling and power supply. Worked with customers during product Beta testing phase resolving problems and installing/upgrading equipment on site.• Debugged MC68020 based VME Bus adapter board.• Debugged systems employing parallel pipeline architecture, gate arrays, control processors, cache memory, main memory, TTL, ECL, and CMOS. Involved board level to system level integration/testing using both self-developed and Star Technologies-developed software.• Developed software to efficiently locate hardware anomalies using macros and assembly language.