Keith Walter Email & Phone Number

Bedminster, United States

Focused on building and deploying customized flows utilizing Mentor’s Calibre product line of design-to-silicon software for leading foundries, IDMs, and fabless IC customers. My end goal is to provide the technical advantages necessary to win sales campaigns over our competitors within our leading accounts. This requires championing customer needs while being part of the solution development process with factory engineers. As an Applications Engineering Consultant, I help both Mentor and customer technical teams to continually refine and improve the product and associated solution flows, and to drive these improvements to deployment.

Union, Nj

Responsible for identification, definition and analysis of business opportunities relying on the utilization of Adam Tech's advanced interconnect products and systems to drive overall commercial success. The scope of our product offering features innovative connector designs and manufacturing capabilities that reduce cost and improve performance in a broad range of applications. I welcome the opportunity to engineer custom solutions to your application specific product requirements. Adam Tech can develop concepts into designs, tooling and production.

Bedminster, New Jersey

Maintained and enhanced the market position of CADD Edge’s engineering software/hardware offerings including SOLIDWORKS, PDM/PLM Solutions, KBE Systems and Stratasys 3D Printers by identifying, developing, and defining business relationships. Responsible for negotiating and closing business conducted within small, medium and large accounts in northern NJ.

Warren, Nj

Actively drove and managed the technology evaluation stage of the sales process, working on the sales team as a key technical adviser and product advocate for Mentor design automation products. This role included identifying all technical issues of assigned accounts to assure complete customer satisfaction through all stages of the sales process. Also responsible for establishing and maintaining strong customer relationships throughout the sales cycle.

South Plainfield, Nj

Provided complete CAD tool and UNIX system support for a startup in the high-speed data communications market. Developed SKILL language routines to automate and customize various tasks within the Cadence design environment. Wrote shell, Perl, and UNIX scripts to fulfill overall CAD and system administration requirements. Built and maintained a technology database necessary for verification, including the development and modification of rules for DRC, LVS, and extraction. Acted as sole interface between CAD tools vendors and the user community.

Red Bank, Nj

Administered global EDA resources for VLSI design teams developing integrated circuits for networking applications at multiple locations in the U.S. and Europe. Responsible for the implementation and enhancement of a mixed-signal IC design flow. Provided daily technical support for all tools comprising the design flow including Synopsys, Mentor, and Cadence products. Maintained license management, load management and revision control systems. Responsible for software installation and maintenance. Also performed resource allocation, budgeting and purchasing. Coordinated tool evaluation and training.

Valley Forge, Pa

Managed design automation and physical design teams consisting of CAE engineers, network engineers, and mask designers. Developed and maintained design methodology and associated tool environment. Assigned resources and tracked schedules for physical design activities. Provided technical support for all engineering applications. Responsible for budgeting, software maintenance, software evaluation, purchasing, and employee performance evaluation.

Valley Forge, Pa

Primary CAE/CAD support for integrated circuit design group of 25 to 40 engineers. Managed resources involved in this effort. Responsible for implementation of CAE methodology encompassing design capture, analog and digital simulation, synthesis, floor-planning, place and route, back-annotation, layout, and verification. Established and maintained design libraries necessary to support this methodology. Wrote CAD software to automate and/or enhance various phases of the design process. Administered license management software. Performed design functions such as automated place and route, logic design and simulation, and layout verification.