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From 2009 onwards, our department was merged with our partners in Research and I got the role of Product Manager System Design Methodology in the overall System-DE program of NXP. My major task was to identify new stakeholders in the BU's Identification, Automotive and High Performance Mixed Signal after NXP had split off the BU's Home and Mobile & Personal, our major customers. We engaged with all. We adopted the product to the needs of the changed NXP organization and successfully introduced the methodology in various new design projects.

Built from scratch an international expert team to define and develop the underlying methodology and tools of the Philips / NXP System & Software Design Environment. My role was always a combination of program & project management and resource & competence management: As resource manager of the team in Eindhoven (9fte + students), I was creating job roles, taking the people on board, doing appraisals and negociating salaries with HRM, coaching people and signing-off development plans, maintaining the project pipeline and resource allocation. As competence manager for the whole multi-site department (+45fte), it was my responsibility to establish, drive, own and manage the system design methodology domain to its excellence and to manage the technical competences of the staff. Built strong partnerships with stakeholders, EDA suppliers, universities (TUe, K.U.Leuven, ...) and research institutes (IMEC, ...) As program & project manager "System Design Methodology" in SSDE (+16fte), I devised the departental strategy and subsequent program in alignment with key partners and suppliers, initiated projects and supervised as project principle and /or project manager, I acted as direct report for technical experts assigned to the program.During this period, I represented Philips & NXP in European projects and initiatives as coordinator and co-author "Verification and Validation" chapter of the Medea + Design Automation roadmap 2005, as Workpackage leader "IP Integration Verification" in European project SPRINT (2005 – 2009) which stands for Open Soc Design Platform for Reuse and Integration of IPs.In this period, I also got to opportunity to coach people outside my own team. I acted as guide for people attending the Philips Semiconductor Journey (2007), as observer in the NXP development center for early career potentials and dual ladder candidates and as coach of a few candidates afterwards in the trajectory towards promotion (2008-2009).

Responsibilities:Project management & implementation of various IC designs:- Single Chip Channel Demodulator and Decoder for digital terrestrial broadcasting receivers and set-top boxes (TDA8970H) for Philips Caen.- The “ALFA” (Analog Look Feel Alike) chip for a hand held scope meter IC for Fluke Industrial. The chip implemented an algorithm from Philips Research to display a periodically sampled continuous signal on a raster display with the quality of an analog screen by applying statistics.- First QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) demodulator (TDA-8045), a mixed digital/analog IC for transmission of data over cable networks for Caen.Introduction of new design methodology- Leading benchmark (Cadence / Synopsys) Logical Synthesis- Introduction Phideo, Philip High Level Synthesis solution- Member taskforce on System Level Design methods

Responsibilities:Digital design Implementation of various ASICs using in-house logic synthesis tool - “SMAC” ASIC in NEC technology for Medical Systems in Best- Designs for Philips TV teletext in Germany- 1st implementations Boundary Scan cellsTechnical writer 1st user manual Retiming algorithms, Philips ResearchOutsourced (1/2 year) to Vitatron in Dieren as consultant for manual test pattern generation of pacemaker designs (asynchronous)

I was a member of the innovation team of Philips Hasselt that was involved with the pre-development and introduction on the market of the Laser Vision Player from Philips. My task was to design an analoge circuit to correct errors in the colors of the video output that arised due to jitter of the laser. I had to deal with analogue circuit design, servo techniques, investigation of unwanted harmonics in high frequency input signal and their impact on the quality of the decoded video output signal.