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Harrison City, PA, US

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Chief technologist for the Electronics Business Unit. Oversaw intellectual property issues (patents and trade secrets) in the business unit. Did due diligence work for several acquisitions. Worked on the corporate CTO's team on the company's technology strategy. Continued R&D work on signal/power integrity and model order reduction.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

(ANSYS acquired Ansoft.) Performed R&D focused on signal and power integrity analysis in high speed systems. Contributed to a number of product innovations. Developed optimization code for decoupling capacitor placement. Worked on coupled electrical-CFD-thermal simulation for PCBs.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Researching applications of electromagnetics and circuit theory to problems in signal and power integrity analysis.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Spearheaded efforts to bring the Q3D Extractor and SIwave simulation products to market. Managed a team consisting of EM solver and user interface developers, QA engineers and technical writers.

Taught graduate and undergraduate courses on analog circuit design.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Co-founder of a 5-person start-up company. Commercialized asymptotic waveform evaluation (AWE) model-order reduction technology for IC and PCB interconnects. Managed development of the company's PCB simulation product. Ultimately we sold the company to Integrated Silicon Systems (later part of Avant!, later part of Synopsys.)

Ph.D., Electrical And Computer Engineering

Thesis: Interconnect Simulation with Asymptotic Waveform Evaluation.

Electrical Engineering

One year of study toward the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Transferred back to Carnegie Mellon University.

M.S., Electrical And Computer Engineering

Thesis: Simulating charge injection in MOS analog circuits

B.S., Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Omega; Eta Kappa Nu; Tau Beta Pi