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IPTL has a strong chemical/biotech/life sciences practice. Great firm; just not the best fit for a EE like myself...

The PowerPC Embedded Processor Solutions (PEPS) group developed a line of embedded controllers utilizing the PowerPC architecture. I worked on bus definition (CoreConnect) and designed the OPB arbiter and PLB-OPB bus bridge. A big part of that group is now at Qualcomm in RTP. For most of my time at IBM, I was clandestinely attending law school 3 nights a week.

SPARC processor design group (California). I designed an MMU for a SPARC that never got built, and did the gate level verification on microSPARC (Tsunami). I moved to North Carolina and joined an erstwhile graphics group that turned to video capture and compression (SunVideo); I designed part of the controller ASIC. Then Sun axed the whole group.

Ciao. In the late 80s the Italian computer company Olivetti sent ~30 engineers to Menlo Park to design a super-minicomputer. A few of them even spoke some English. I did the memory controller (with write queue snooping and out-of-order writes to support multi-processor cache coherency). After that, we designed a workstation around the Intel i860... except during the World Cup. I rode out the '89 earthquake in that office.

Remember SDI (a/k/a Star Wars)? I worked in Avionics on Remote Piloted Vehicles (Aquila) and built a test lab for a phased-array, steerable-beam radar antenna. I moved to the Applied Physics Lab in Palo Alto, which did some interesting instrumentation and data acquisition projects at some place called "the test site" in Nevada. Declining defense appropriations and talk of a nuclear test ban led me to the commercial computer industry.

Well logging. I provided downhole data acquisition and analysis services for companies and individuals (wildcats) drilling oil wells -- that is, I mapped and analyzed properties of subsurface formations and determined at which depth(s) the oil or gas deposits were located. I worked in Lafayette, LA; Ft. Worth, TX; and Bakersfield, CA. The year after I left the oil industry, crude went from $27/bbl to $12. Not bad timing, huh?

Jd, Intellectual Property

Activities and Societies: Law Review, Chair of IP Society, Trademark Moot Courtsumma cum laude Rank: 3rd out of 100 or so. I attended.

Bsee, Digital Electronics, English Lit.

Activities and Societies: IEEE