Simon Thomas Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Overview:Technical Director of a team of CAD/EDA and web-based software engineers.Experience:Agile Scrum Project Management. Product Owner role for all NVIDIA System EDA Solutions. Proficient with Atlassian tools including Confluence and JIRA.Solution Architect and Project Management of EDA and related web applications to facilitate efficient interfaces to manage parts, documents and BOMs in PTC's Windchill PLM application. Extensive knowledge of complex BOM structure design, relational object hierarchy and databases, data management and distribution, and change/lifecycle management.Conceptual and Usage Design, and Project Management of custom web-based NVIDIA intranet application for complex PCB Systems and Electrical Constraints, with device extracted information applied to each and every PCB designed at NVIDIA.Development management of extensive Cadence Allegro PCB based tools, Valor DFM and process customisation.Project management, technical solutions, automation applications, application communication, database design, structured documentation, wikis, web site design, and authoring tools.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Overview:Having already started as a Lead Design Engineer in the early days of NVIDIA's Systems Engineering team, as this team grew I took on a direct management role at NVIDIA overseeing all design aspects of the PCB design and the demanding cutting edge performance for NVIDIA's GPU productsAs the team continued to grow I was made Director of Systems PCB Engineering - NVIDIA's global PCB design team in 2000.Experience:Throughout, I was often the principle driver of PCB specifications, performance and design approach, within in increasing complex design process flow with demanding usage of PCB Design CAD tools, with considering for Design For Manufacturing specifications, topology design, topology extraction, signal analysis and simulation, signal skew control, crosstalk minimization and other aspects. I amassed detailed design and application experience in; graphics system design, high-speed synchronous and source-synchronous high speed PCB signal layout with clock and signal matching, controlled impedance PCBs and effects of PCB stackup - all with a variety of signalling standards including PCI Express, PCI and Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), 1X, 2X and 4X, TMDS, DDR, GDDR; low thermal resistance PCB design practices, using heatsinks and fansinks; high power regulator applications and thermal implications Detailed knowledge of BGA package design, netlisting, signal optimisation for complex package to package wide/multiple bus trace routing.Design customer reference designs and ‘direct-manufacture’ PCBs.Tools: CADENCE Allegro/APD, SigXP, Skill tools, Valor Enterprise DFM Analysis, Schematic capture tools including Concept, OrCAD Capture 7.1, 7.2 for Windows. Documentation authoring tools include Framemaker, Office 97, 2000, etc (detailed knowledge of Excel), and web page design.

Geneva, Switzerland, Ch

Overview:Relocated to California to partner with startup NVIDIA as a Lead Systems Design Engineer.I focused on the CAD implementation of all designs for early NVIDIA test, bringup, emulation and product PCBs - initially working with outside expertise to supplement resources. As members were added to the team from NVIDIA's side we brought this expertise in house.Experience:I developed detailed design and application experience in; graphics system design, high-speed synchronous PCB signal layout, controlled impedance PCBs and effects of PCB stackup - all with a variety of signalling standards including ISA and Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), 1X, 2X and 4X, TMDS, DDR, GDDR; low thermal resistance PCB design practices, using high power regulator and heatsinks.Understanding of audio system design, and digital game controller port/interfaces.Design customer reference designs.Tools: OrCAD Capture 7.1, 7.2 for Windows, PADS PowerPCB 2.0, 2.1 for Windows layout and routing tools. Documentation authoring tools include Framemaker 5, Office, and web page design using Netscape Communicator and Corel

Geneva, Switzerland, Ch

Experience: INMOS transputer architecture, high-speed serial-links (OS and DS-links; now known in the industry as IEEE1355 and IEEE1394), embedded system / module design and software tools (occam and C), VGA compatible RAMDACs, high performance VRAM graphics controllers (IMS G3xx), IBM XGA architecture and system design, SGS-THOMSON video decompression (MPEG-1, MPEG-2) solutions (STi3400 and STi3500 family). PC bus experience (ISA, MicroChannel, VLB and PCI), bus interface design experience (ISA to Micro Channel and PCI to local VRAM framebuffer for 486/Pentium PC’s) using ALTERA and XILINX programmable logic devices (MAX7000/FPGAs). Tools: OrCAD SDT, Mentor Graphics librarian, schematic, layout and fab-link tools. CUPL, PALASM, ABEL, ALTERA MAX+PlusII for Windows (including AHDL, schematic, compiler/synthesis, “Design-Doctor”/ timing analysis, simulation tools and design partitioning tools.

Beng (Hons), Electronic Engineering

Higher National Diploma, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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