Engineering, Product Documentation, Corporate CollateralThe company provides clients worldwide with standard and custom I/O library IP for a wide range of process technologies from the world's leading foundries.

Contract technical writingMost recently working with Aragio Solutions, a semiconductor IP provider. Engineriing - Product Documentation. Contract converted to permanent.

Working with small businesses and individuals to deliver a consistent brand and message in presentations, business development, and product / service collateral.

Presentation Development and SpeakerCoaching and collaborating with professionals in transition - What do you want to be when you grow up?Contributing to DFW area professional networking groupsVolunteer with DFW Sales Career Focus Group, Membership orientation - Getting the most out of the networking group experience.

Defined and executed strategy to migrate customers to OA, an open standard database for IC design, in a paradigm shift for the semiconductor industry. At the core of an OA based solution, the Virtuoso platform, a $350M business with 80%+ market share, enables enhanced design capabilities, streamlined flows, and increased productivity.• Solution / Methodology Development – Data migration process, platform adoption, and design methodology improvement.• Client Engagement – Conducted 20+ customer pilot projects with training, migration support, methodology improvement, and product support. • Customer Support – SME and advisor on OA, data migration, and platform adoption. Implemented solutions to Process Design Kit setup, the OA technology database, platform interoperability, and physical implementation / layout tool functionality. • Training Development – Developed training and the knowledge base, leading the team in managing and editing content as the technology evolved • Product Engineering –Interpreted and translated details on OA, PDK's, and tool functionality into solutions. Supported R&D with release documentation, utility scripting, and usability issue resolution.• Customer Enablement – Published the IC 6.1 Adoption resource website. Developed and presented demos, papers, and workshops at industry and user conferences.• Field / Sales Enablement – Trained support and sales teams to engage and assist global customers on OA migration.

Developed a top-down / bottom-up design methodology to improve chip level circuit simulation flows with behavioral modeling in the Virtuoso Analog Design Environment. • Solution Development – Developed methodology to employ system level VerilogA models for early stage functional verification constructed in a way that transistor level models and refined VerilogA models could be easily plugged in as the design progresses to achieve improved simulation speeds with the appropriate level of accuracy.• Client Engagement – Partnered with an RF / Wireless customer proving the solution in a space where system modeling is critical and full chip simulation is challenging.• Field / Customer Enablement – Published the AMS Design Environment website documenting the methodology and capturing best practices for setting up the environment, constructing behavioral models, and executing the design flow.

Provided call center support, training and onsite services to customers of Cadence custom IC design software products and solutions. • Customer Support – Maintained customer productivity with software installation, licensing, and analog / custom IC design tool expertise – DFII, Composer schematic driven layout, Analog Design Environment, and Spectre / SpectreRF simulation.• Technical Training – Conducted product training on analog / RF design tools. Developed customized training and augmented standard course offerings to address client specific requirements and methodologies.• Client Engagement – Embedded in the Texas Instruments Analog / Mixed Signal group providing customized tool / methodology training and frontline support on the TI design environment and analog / RF simulation for a design community of 400+.

Developed cable television hardware – analog set-top converters with operator requested features for residential use and video processing hardware installed in operator head-ends. • Design – Improved received picture quality for consumers by redesigning the video encryption baseband processing hardware at the head-end, providing a precise, stable signal source that was an easily maintainable solution for cable operators. Developed additional audio features for standard set-top model – dual audio program, audio scrambling. Developed a set-top model with premium channel reception tunable as an off-air channel from the TV allowing the consumer full use of the TV's advanced features. Redesigned the RF signal path and inserted the channel in a spare VHF carrier location. • Prototype / Test – Designed and built PCB, RF module, and set-top prototypes. Conducted engineering tests and tested picture quality against the toughest metric - visual perception. • Manufacturing / Deployment –Engaged and trained factory personnel in manufacturing setup and pre-production product runs. Performed extensive testing to ensure acceptable picture quality in varying system conditions including conducting pilot engagements with cable operators in live transmission environments.

Provided technical support to defense system programs including circuit design, system troubleshooting, worst case analysis and design verification. • Design – Antenna beam steering hardware for a receiver – RF down conversion and analog baseband signal correlation processing. Missile guidance electronics – analog rate/position sensing and control hardware. Airborne radar detection and locator system – control logic and temperature compensated gain control in RF modules. • Manufacturing Support – Worked with manufacturing teams to assemble and test hardware during pre-production. Technical interface with 3rd party vendor for assembly of an analog hybrid module. • Design Analysis / Verification –Performed Worst Case Analysis circuit simulations to verify hardware designs and to identify and correct potential problems prior to production.