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Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Headed up sales and business development for Spark Microsystems from pre-seed funding in 2017 through series B. Engaged several strategic accounts while developing hundreds of accounts for long term sales growth.

Bernin, Fr

Focused strategic semiconductor and system company partnerships advancing new technology options such as RFSOI, FDSOI, and new III-V substrate materials for advanced technologies in RF, photonics, power and digital product markets. Focused markets include IoT, automotive, mobile, and enterprise. Successfully initiated significant new Soitec business with tier one companies. Working with key accounts such as Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, Skyworks, Qualcomm, HP, and others.

Campbell, Ca, Us

Provided Network on Chip (NoC) interconnect IP to improve time to market, performance, power consumption and die size of large scale system on chip (SoC) devices for consumer, mobile, communications, automotive and other applications. Worked to develop new accounts like Freescale, Avago, Broadcom, AMD, Apple, and Cisco. Early exit due to successful acquisition of Arteris by Qualcomm.

Chandler, Az, Us

Focused on delivering connectivity solutions that enable the proliferation of data in automobiles, consumer devices, PCs and other applications. SMSC's feature-rich products drive a number of industry standards and include USB, video processors, MOST® automotive networking, wireless audio, embedded system controllers, ethernet processors, sensors and analog solutions. Developed the western area business over 10x in revenue during tenure.• Led team to strategic design-ins with Apple, HP, Microsoft, Google, Logitech, and Cisco.• Won a significant reference design partnerships with Nvidia and Qualcomm.

Provided complex DSP and mixed-signal VLSI solutions for use in high-speed communication systems. Products range from Ethernet PHY to 10G transceivers for Ethernet modules and backplane applications. • Directed all North American and European business development for new product line. • Major influence in growing revenue to 50% growth for 2005 and 300% projected growth for 2006. Helped to position the company for acquisition by Transwitch in 2005-2006.• Key customers and partners included Intel, Agilent, JDSU, Emcore, Molex, Cisco, Foundry, Extreme, HP, IBM, and Dell.

Focused on strategic accounts with no prior business. Sold devices for the network and communications industries including optical modules, SONET physical layer devices, framer mappers, and pointer processors, fiber channel, network processors, backplane transceivers, packet switch fabrics, Ethernet MAC and switches, SerDes, and optical analog amplifiers.• Grew Cisco business from zero to the largest world wide account at VTSS.• Key accounts included Cisco, Agilent, Ascend, JDSU, Sun, Nortel, Finisar, Opnext, Juniper, and Extreme Networks.

Aliso Viejo, Ca, Us

Developed new strategic accounts for low power flash and anti-fuse based FPGA IC devices serving all markets including communications and high reliability aerospace markets.• Won first Actel design opportunities at Cisco and Ascend Communications (Lucent), leveraging prior relationships there. Other direct key accounts included 3Com, Compaq, and HP. • Managed and trained Actel’s direct and indirect FAEs in the Western Territory providing hardware and software tool training and support.

• Pre-sales and post-sales technical support for Samsung ASIC products North America. • Responsibilities included feasibility studies, customer presentations on design flow and methodology, pre-route and post-route design verification using Synopsys, Verilog, Viewlogic and Samsung Asic Tools, debugging design issues, running simulations, power analysis, fault-grading, and test vector conversion.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

ASIC gate array and standard cell device maker with expertise in FPGA to ASIC conversions.• Experience with over 60 digital ASIC designs using both gate-array and standard-cell technology. • Chip applications included networking, wireless systems, DSP chips, FAX, phone, video and other peripheral applications.• Designed, placed, routed, and characterized Northern Telecom’s 0.8-micron digital standard-cell library.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

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