CONDENSED Resume of: C. McCord, -- Raleigh, NC. , (Complete version of this resume available on the WWW at: http://pages.tico.com/1/resume) Hardware Engineer (10+ years) Summary: Senior Electronic Engineer specializing in high speed digital designs (50Mhz+), using both discrete logic and FPGAs. Successful designs using Actel 14100's & 1460's, and Xilinx XC3000, XC4000, and XC5200 families 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, Pentium, and PCI architecture, including "local bus" characteristics. Experienced in the use of Intel iCE and other custom tools for tracing microprocessor and bus activity in performance studies. Software experience with "C" in both AIX/Unix and Dos environments. Contract employment : ___________________________________ IBM Corp., Dept. 2S9, Server Performance Analysis, Research Triangle Park, NC. Feb. 1995 to present. Design Engineer, duties include: Design of high speed digital systems utilizing Actel and Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Verilog, Vhdl, Synopsys, and Viewlogic schematic capture. Currently conducting benchmark comparison on Actel & Xilinx FPGAs. ___________________________________ IBM Corp., Dept. 2S9, System Performance Evaluation, Aug. 1992 to Feb. 1995. Design Engineer, duties included: Design of high speed digital systems for collecting trace data from 486 and Pentium based systems. Implementation of "processor like" functions in Actel & Xilinx FPGAs. "Beta" test site for Actel place and route software. Multi-module simulation utilizing Viewsim. AIX/Unix system administrator for a network of Risc based workstations. Creation of post processing software utilizing "C" and "C++" for validating and analyzing trace data.. Published author on the use of FPGAs to shorten development cycles in products for emerging markets. Pioneer in the use of hierarchical design techniques for printed circuit board design on Viewlogic/PCAD based CAD systems. Extensive experience with the AFS file system and networked systems using TCP/IP. Currently conducting Verilog/VHDL benchmarking on Actel & Xilinx FPGAs. IBM Coordinator: M. Lydon, 919/543-5117. ___________________________________ C. McCord (continued) Page 2 IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr, Dept 523, System Performance Analysis, Hawth., NY. Mar.1991 to Aug.1992. Design Engineer, responsible for design of custom hardware to trace and measure the performance of various 80386 based systems. Viewlogic, Palasm, and ORCAD development & simulation tools used for "chip level" designs utilizing Actel FPGA's along with various high speed PALs. Valid-Allegro development tools used to implement board level designs based on "Fast" and Advanced BiCMOS logic families. IBM Coordinator: Joe Morris, 914/784-7432. ___________________________________ IBM Corp., Dept. 26T, Mobile Solutions Development, Boca Raton, Fl. May 1990 to Nov. 1990. Design Engineer. Duties included chip level design of various PALs and FPGAs to replace existing discrete "System Board" logic achieving a reduction in size and power consumption for the IBM PC Radio (Invention Disclosure #BC8-91-0132). Design, simulation, and testing carried out using the Actel ALS FPGA development system, along with the ORCAD schematic capture system. IBM Coordinator: Stephen Still, 407/982-0078. ___________________________________ IBM Corp., Dept. 96S, Custom Products, Boca Raton, Fl. Sept. 1989 to May 1990. Design Engineer and Systems Integrator. Duties included debug and redesign of PC based "Point of Sale" terminals, utilizing programmable logic devices and P-Cad schematic capture software. IBM Coordinator: Frank Fado, 407/443-2482. ___________________________________ IBM Corp., Dept. 96S, Custom Products, Boca Raton, Fl. Apr. 1987 to Nov. 1988. Design Engineer and Systems Integrator. Duties included design of "battery backup" circuitry for remote terminal applications, along with the evaluation of Intel, VLSI, Oak, and Chips & Technology turnkey ASIC solutions and chipsets for PC compatible Point of Sale designs. IBM Coordinator: Bill Totten, 407/443-2558. ___________________________________ Gould Corp., Computer Systems Div., Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. Jan. 1987 to Apr. 1987. Design Engineer and Systems Integrator. Duties included interfacing SCSI related peripherals to Gould's Powernode 6000 series "ruggedized" minicomputers for rapid deployment forces. Supervisor: Skip Culver, 305/797-2390. C. McCord (continued) Page 3 IBM Corp., Dept. 96S, Custom Products, Boca Raton, Fl. Mar. 1986 to Dec 1986. Design Engineer and Systems Integrator. Duties consisted of hardware and software reinstallation of P-Cad systems, and subsequent utilization of P-Cad to develop microprocessor based data collection terminals. IBM Coordinator: Bill Totten, 407/443-2558. ___________________________________ IBM Corp., Dept. 96S, Custom Products, Boca Raton, Fl. Apr. 1985 to Dec 1985. Design Engineer. Design of "single chip switcher" solutions for low current supplies, including the design used in the IBM 7494. IBM Coordinator: Rita Fox (R.I.P.). ___________________________________ IBM Corp., Dept. 96S, Custom Products, Boca Raton, Fl. Jan. 1984 to Oct. 1984. Design Engineer. Duties included design of microprocessor based systems utilizing the Intel 8051 family. IBM coordinator: C. Pfretzschner. ___________________________________ Teledyne Corp., Production Test Dept., Lewisburg Tn. Oct. 1983 to Jan. 1984. Test Engineer. Advised management on operational changes to streamline the debugging procedures for P.C. boards used in IBM products. Supervisor: Bill Tucker, 615/359-7531. ___________________________________ IBM Corp., Dept. 96S, Custom Products, Boca Raton, Fl. Jan. 1983 to Oct. 1983. Design Engineer. Duties included design of 8748 microcontroller based interface cards for a variety of IBM products. IBM coordinator: Jim Stanton. ___________________________________ Zenith Radio Corp., 1900 N. Austin Ave., Chicago, Il. 60616. Aug., 1980 to June 1982. Test Equipment Dept. Duties included design, construction, and debugging of Z80 based test fixtures. Supervisor: John Dwonch, 312/745-2000. CadCam/Software experience: 1. "C" & "C++" , Basic, HPL, and Pascal, along with assembly level programming for the Pentium, x86, 8088, 8085, 8051, 8748, Z80 and 8080. C. McCord (continued) Page 3 2. Viewlogic, P-Cad ,Orcad, and Valid-Allegro, schematic capture and logic development packages. Experience includes system setup and configuration, creation of symbol libraries, schematic generation, logic simulation, etc 3. Operation of: Intel In-Circuit-Emulators and HP Development systems and logic analyzers. 4. Extensive experience with AIX/Unix, DOS, OS2, VM and various IBM internal software packages. Related Education: The Shapetek (Cooper & Chyan) Adaptive Autorouter, Model 50, Feb. 1994. Eight hour course, instructor and materials from Offsite Solutions, Orlando, Fl. AIX System Administration, Jan., 1994. Sixteen hour course, instruction and materials from Skill Dynamics Pentium Processor System Architecture, Dec., 1993 Twenty hour course, instruction and materials from Don Anderson & Tom Shanley. Introduction to AIX and the Andrew File System, November 1993. Sixteen hour course, instructor and materials from Boca Raton Technical Services. Designing with Powerview, September 1993. Sixteen hour course, instruction and materials from Viewlogic Corp., Marlboro MA. Synopsys VHDL Synthesis & Simulation Workshop, March 1993. Forty hour course, instruction and materials from Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, Ca. PCAD Master Designer 6.0 Printed Circuit Board Design Course, Feb.., 1993. Forty hour course, instructor and materials from Technical Systems Integrators and PCAD. Data Processing 103N, Basic programming, 1982. Wilbur Wright College, N. Austin Ave., Chicago, Il. Personal: Height: 6 ft. Weight 180 lbs. Married.