Founder and Director of VLSI design technology consultancy, Ingeni Solutions, which focuses on all aspects of VLSI design and solutions for functional safety & security.Expertise based on over 25 years’ global leadership experience, working with world-leading VLSI manufacturers and managing multi-disciplinary teams and low-cost 3rd parties. Specialisms include VLSI product design, competence centres for functional safety and security, automotive network protocol IP’s and business project management, built on a firm foundation of end-to-end full lifecycle semi-conductor design. KEY SKILLS & ACHIEVEMENTSTechnical Experience: • 80+ VLSI product and IP designs, from customer requirements to product validation • Functional safety for automotive application based on ISO26262 & IEC61508 • Automotive security based on EVITA, SAE, JHAS, SESAMO, CVSS, STRIDE • Automotive network protocol IP, standards, consortia, validation and conformance tests• Modular design and verification methodologies, which allowed accessibility to off-shore teams Management Experience: • Management of global, multi-disciplinary and remote 3rd party teams from UK, Europe and India• WW auto network IP, security and functional safety competence centres with ROI >300M€• Extensive experience of commercial setup and management of low cost 3rd parties • Interaction at global, business and at senior management level to steer customer projects • Planning & negotiations at corporate level with an annual R&D budget responsibility of >€6M• Participated at company management level for ISO9001, CMMI, TS16480 process and audit• Collaboration with academic institutions on industry programs with European universities• Participation in European program, TETRACOM, jointly with European university for security