Resume of C. McCord

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Revision K., last modified 12/26/96

Summary:

Senior Electronic Engineer specializing in high speed digital designs (50Mhz+), using both discrete logic and FPGA s. Successful designs using Actel 1280's & 1460's with Viewlogic, Valid, & Orcad from both Unix and Dos based platforms. Expertise in issues such as pipelined synchronous designs, combinatorial logic, clock skew, ground bounce, termination, crosstalk and ringing control, as well as critical component placement and routing. Intimate knowledge of Intel P6 and Pentium architecture, including "local bus" characteristics. Experienced in the use and development of custom tools including data collection hardware, Maximum Strategy high speed disk arrays, and high speed communication subsystems utilizing the HIPPI interface for tracing microprocessor and bus activity during performance studies. Software experience with "C" in both AIX/Unix and Dos environments.

Contract Employment:

Jan. 1997 to present
IBM Corp., Dept. 2S9, Server Performance Analysis,
Research Triangle Park, NC.
Design Engineer, duties include: Sub-system, module, and gate level design of realtime high speed (100 mhz) digital systems utilizing Actel and Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Verilog, Vhdl, Synopsys, and Viewlogic schematic capture. Currently conducting Verilog/VHDL benchmarking on Actel & Xilinx FPGAs.

Feb. 1995 to Dec. 1996
IBM Corp., Dept. 2S9, Server Performance Analysis,
Research Triangle Park, NC.
Design Engineer, duties include: System level design of realtime high speed digital systems capable of collecting data at 1600 mbytes/second utilizing Actel and Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Verilog, Vhdl, Synopsys, and Viewlogic schematic capture.