Manager Engineer

Gregory (Greg) J. Wendt

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Belmont, CA 94002

Home: 650-***-**** ********@**.*** Cell: 650-***-****

Creative, insightful, strategic planner, and project management

professional offering proven record of program execution, change

management, product development, and revenue gains. Driven, dedicated

leader with exceptional execution, relationship building, and program

management skills. Proven ability to deliver results in dynamic and rapid

growth situations.

Summary of Qualifications

Experienced managing development teams, engineers, programs and projects.

Diverse background including ASIC development, ASIC tool development, ASIC

fabrication and production, Consumer product introduction.

Managed departments totaling over 50 personnel.

Experienced in ASIC CAD software program management

Experienced in ASIC Fabrication and Production.

Experienced in leading complex programs from inception to launch.

Experienced in aspects of Engineering process, tools and practices, source

control, and change management solutions.

A positive, confident leader, with a strong work ethic.

Areas of Expertise:

Program Management

ASIC Product Development

ASIC Fabrication and Production

New Product Development

ASIC Development Flow

Off Shore Management

Professional Experience

Summary Experience

2006-2013: Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Sr. Program Manager Graphics

Products

2004-2006: eSilicon Corp, Sunnyvale, Dir. Program Management, Customer

Product

2003-2004: LSI Logic, Milpitas, Sr. Program Manager, ASIC Development

2002-2003: Cadence Design Systems, Program Manager, VCAD

1997-2000: LSI Logic, Milpitas, Sr. Program Manager, ASIC Development

1996-1997: Apple Computer, Cupertino, Program Manager Printer Development

1992-1996: DP-Tek, Wichita, Engineering Manager

Bridgenex Inc., Santa Clara, CA July 2013 - Oct . 2013

Contract Program Manager,

ESILICON CORP., Sunnyvale, CA

Managed consolidation of production programs to single Outside Test and

Assembly facilities. Worked with supply chain team to creat documentation

for presentation to customers that demonstrated benefits of consolidation

while preserving cost savings to eSilicon revenue.

Worked with remote and offshore teams to develop required technical data to

implement product transfers.

Managed transfer of technical information to OSAT provider and monitored

progress of design implementation.

Effort resulted in substantial savings to company bottom line.

Advanced Micro Devices, Sr. Program Manager, Graphics May 2006

- April 2013

Lead multi-function, multi-national teams to produce graphics processors

and consumer graphics products for sale through OEM and partner developers.

Managed ASIC designs from development to production and product launch.

Worked with product marketing, package engineering, board design

engineering, hardware qualification, software development and other groups

to ensure product delivery and quality. Produced schedules, documentation,

and supporting materials for the program. Created and presented executive

level presentations for program reviews.

Selected Contributions & Accomplishments

Process Improvement Working with Cross Functional Groups: Initiated process

improvement programs to increase efficiency and effectiveness of the

product roadmap. Achieved a more streamlined project execution for ongoing

projects across Business Units, Product Development, and Production. Drove

time to market improvements where prioritization and planning decisions

were made with greater visibility on the impact to TTM. Single point of

contact between business units, product development, and production for

all projects and process development.

eSilicon Corp, Dir. Program Management Nov

2004 - May 2006

Managed customer ASIC programs from tape out release through production.

Managed development of package design, wafer fabrication, device

prototyping, test development, characterization, qualification and

production.

Created presales material, project materials, set up project budgets,

tracked project performance.

Managed customer relationship and expectations via weekly status meetings,

monthly management reviews and quarterly business reviews.

Achievements:

Successful delivery of several customer designs to production.

Implemented schedule development and tracking to demonstrate project

progress

LSI Logic Corp, Sr. Program Manager

Jan 2003 - Oct 2004

Managed the development of 90nm process development and methodology

programs for implementing new technology in LSI.

Developed cross functional teams to accomplish the program goals.

Created, implemented and tracked schedules in the development of 90nm test

chips produced at TSMC.

Worked with design, methodology, test, and QA to the release of the

product.

Worked on the integration of third party IP into the LSI ASIC flow

Cadence Design Systems, Program Manager VCAD Dec

2000 - Dec 2002

Managed ASIC Design Services projects in the Virtual CAD group for

implementation of Customer RTL to GDSII.

Created VCAD sales proposals for presentation to potential customers. Made

sales presentations to potential customers.

Set up project budgets, tracked project cost and schedules.

Responsible for the P&L of projects, managing the project teams, allocation

of resources to projects, and direct interface with customer on all aspects

of projects .

Managed customer relationships. Managed project deliverables. Provided the

customer with a pipeline into Cadence.

LSI Logic Corp, Program Manager

May 1997 - Dec 2000

Managed development of CAD software tools for implementing new capabilities

in the LSI FlexStream CAE environment. Teams include Place and Route,

Timing Closure, DataPath, Power analysis and embedded FPGA into ASIC.

Worked with cross functional teams to develop and implement program

requirements and goals.

Created, implemented and tracked schedules in the development of memory

compilers, Datapath Compilers, PLL's and standard cell libraries. Worked

with design, methodology, test, and QA to the release of the product.

Managed development of consumer product ASSP's and supporting systems.

This included development of third party systems software, hardware and

ASIC's.

Worked with marketing to generate the design requirements, created and

tracked schedules, located resources as required.

Managed third party vendors and contractors in the development of system

software and hardware. Specific programs included PC DVD, Digital Camera,

and Set Top Box products.

Managed a group of three program managers in the Vertical Markets.

Developed budgets, department goals, trained/mentored team members.

Defined and created team objectives, job descriptions and wrote performance

reviews.

Apple Computer, Program Manager, Printer Development, Nov 1996

- Feb 1997

Managed design and development of monochrome laser printer products.

Directed activities of team personnel to meet cost and schedule goals.

Team activities included Mechanical Design, System board design, software

development, MAC OS integration, Safety, Regulatory Requirements,

Packaging, Internationalization, Quality, Imaging, and Marketing.

Teamed with vendors in the development of the laser engine, engine

controller and software drivers.

Developed program schedules and cost models to meet corporate guidelines.

Worked with subcontractors in the development of integration and production

for laser printer

DP-Tek, Engineering Manager/Director Product Line Dev, July 1993 - July

1996

Directed Engineering Dept. in development of laser printer technologies.

Programs included laser printer controller design, Windows printer

software, embedded firmware, TrueRes ASIC design and development.

Managed 20 hardware engineers and software designers, developed tasking for

projects and made personnel assignments to complete the tasks in a timely

manner.

Developed technical and cost proposals for marketing presentations.

Selected, developed and interfaced with ASIC vendors.

Interfaced with customers in development of customized printer software.

Investigated and recommended design / development software and hardware

systems.

Included are Verilog and VHDL simulators, synthesis software, configuration

management software, and software development systems for the Intel I960,

AMD 29K and Motorola 68K processors.

Acted as liaison with patent attorneys for writing and submitting patents

to the US Patent Office. Performed patent searches and studies for

competing technologies.

Q CORPORATION, Engineering Manager Nov 1991 - July

1993

Directed Engineering Dept. in design, development, and maintenance of

surface mount IC handling product.

Guided the activities of Electronic, Mechanical, Drafting, and Clerical

personnel.

Developed automatic placement equipment to replace manual tape and reel

machines.

Developed tape and reel service to enhance design and development of the

equipment.

Researched vision systems for inspecting the orientation of parts.

Recommended cost saving measures for price reductions on equipment.

BULOVA TECHNOLOGIES, INC, Program Mgr./Cost Center Mgr

1986 - 1991

Program Mgr. for Electronic Safe and Arm Device (ESAD).

Responsibilities included research into technology and development of a

generic ESAD. Investigated Exploding Foil Initiators (EFI), high voltage

triggering devices, solid state accelerometers, and dual initiator output.

Group Leader for M762 Electronic Fuze Pre-Production Evaluation effort.

Managed a group of ten engineers with the responsibility of evaluating the

electronic design of the M762 including two ASIC's.

Program Mgr./Cost Center Mgr. of the Specialty Products Engineering

Department and the Drafting, Document Control and Reprographics Department.

Responsibilities involved managing the technical and financial aspects of

programs assigned to the Specialty Products Department.

The contract value of the programs assigned to the Specialty Products

Department exceeded $10 million dollars.

The budgets of the two departments managed during tenure in this position

exceeded $500,000.

The Specialty Products Department manufactured low volume, precision

mechanical, electro-mechanical, and electronic assemblies

Yields during the contracts were raised by 20% while costs were reduced by

up to 50%.

Operations Manager on the M764 PIBD Fuze production program. Managed the

day to day production of the fuze to improve the producibility and increase

the production yields

Specific Accomplishments: Development of Electronic S & A technology.

First article and preproduction the M764 PIBD Fuze. Authored the

Configuration Management Plan. Reduction of production costs on all

programs.

QUANTIC INDUSTRIES, INC., Sr. Project Engineer

1984 - 1985

Sr. Project Engineer for development program of the Maverick Missile Safe

and Arm Fuze.

Responsibilities involved directing the technical team during development

to assure a working design, checking electronics and mechanicals to assure

function per the performance specification, directing test engineers and

electronic technicians during testing to MIL-STD-331A.

CHAMBERLAIN MANUFACTURING CORP., Project Engineer 1979 to

1984

Project Engineer on Standard Missile II warhead development program for the

Naval Surface Weapons Center.

Developed a spiral broaching method to form Pearson Notches on the inside

diameter of the warhead case and determined the mass producibility.

Responsible for the procurement of broaching machine and broach tooling and

determining its suitability for production use.

Responsible for vendor interface, procurement of materials, budgeting,

scheduling, and cost estimating. Responsible for liaison with naval

personnel and generation of progress and technical reports.

Project Engineer on the Inertial Welding program for ARDEC.

Developed data collection techniques during radial inertial welding of

copper bands onto steel artillery bodies.

BECKMAN INSTRUMENTS, INC., Fullerton, CA.

Field Service Engineer: (1974 to 1979)

EDUCATION:

BSEET, Missouri Institute of Technology, Kansas City, Missouri

Seminar on Management Problems of the Technical Person in a Leadership Role

Seminar on Streamlining the Product Development Process

Seminar on Product Fast time to Market Development

Seminar on Japanese Business Culture

SOFTWARE: Expert in Microsoft Project, Word, Excel. Beginner status in

Visual Basic

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