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Claude Cloutier
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Claude Cloutier Claude has been in the workforce since 1978. The first 12 years of his career was with the Canadian Air Force in a variety of roles including operational flying, teaching and requirements management. While at Canada’s National Defence Headquarters, he was appointed Deputy Project Director for the CP-140 Aurora Update project. He also was the operational authority for several avionics research and development projects. Since 1990, Claude has been in private industry as a professional services consultant. He has led and managed many research and development projects including: avionics, telecommunications, networking, wireless, imaging, IC and security for both government and industry. Over the years, Claude has demonstrated excellence in management and leadership in a variety of senior leadership roles. Currently, he is the President and Chairman of Corporation. One of Claude’s many passions is project management. Claude was certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute in 1994 and was re-certified in 2004 and 2007. He has facilitated project management courses internationally for a variety of industries and for government organizations for basic, advanced and PMP certification courses. He also facilitates his own course that specializes in Electronic Product Design project management. One of Claude’s other passions is leadership. Claude graduated in June 2007 from Royal Roads University with a Master of Arts Leadership and Training.
Feel free to contact Claude via email or mobile: 604-773-1522
Bryan Morris Bryan has over 22 years experience in the telecommunications and consulting industry. He has been successfully managing people and projects for over 15 years. Prior to coming to XtremeEDA, Bryan worked on a diverse set of projects including commercial software, embedded systems development, air traffic control system design, and many years of ASIC and FPGA design and verification. These projects have given him industrial experience in C/C++, Vera, SystemVerilog, and many scripting languages. Bryan graduated from Queen's University in Kingston with a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985. He has been a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario since 1987.
Feel free to contact Bryan via email or call at 613-265-3357 (mobile).
Chad Chadwell
Feel free to contact Chad via email or call at 512-740-5218 (mobile).
Scott Spurlin
Feel free to contact Scott via email or call at 512-335-2391(mobile).
Jim Nash Jim has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining XtremeEDA, Jim was the Director of Worldwide Sales at DAFCA. Jim's previous sales experience includes Intrinsix as Director of Sales, North America and Wind River as Design Services Sales Manager. Jim started his career as an ASIC Designer at Fujitsu Microelectronics before becoming a Field Applications Engineer at Integrated Measurement Systems. Jim holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.
Feel free to contact Jim via email or call at 508-845-1590 (office) or 508-735-9929 (mobile).
David Black David has over 28 years of broad System, Software tools, Firmware, and ASIC product development experience. He has been a significant contributor with various roles from planning to implementation to debug of 12 systems with over 18 ASICs. David is a recognized leader within the design community for both his experience and knowledge that he can bring to a customer engagement. He experiences include the deployment of several major EDA tool infrastructures, and has development experience in the fields of Electronic System Level (ESL) Modeling, Board Design, Verification, Floorplanning, Synthesis and DFT. and he is proficient in many languages including Verilog, Perl, C++ and Tcl. He is the co-author of a highly regarded book on ESL ("SystemC:From the Ground Up") and has authored many whitepapers. David also has experience in creating and delivering training material for our clients.
David Jones David Jones has been in the semiconductor industry for 12 years, starting in the DRAM design industry at MOSAID Technologies, then going onto co-found a verification consulting services firm prior to co-founding XtremeEDA. David has worked on multiple complex projects including ARC, PowerPC and x86 microprocessor systems, encryption, ATM and video processing. He has extensive experience with both C++ and SystemVerilog, with application to the verification of microprocessor systems. David has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Paul Marriott Dr. Marriott is a renowned specialist in Verification technology. He has wealth of knowledge in the Verification methodology arena from his many years as a consultant with well known players in the industry. His widely recognized skills in methodology infusion come from extensive practical experience providing consulting and training services to a variety of players in the industry, including large tier 1 companies as well as smaller privately-held organizations. Paul obtained his doctorate degree in electronic engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), England, after graduating with a Master of Science in integrated circuit system design from the same university. He currently holds the position of Director, Verification Engineering, at XtremeEDA Corporation, a professional ASIC and FPGA design services company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. Before joining XtremeEDA, Paul successfully worked as an expert independent design verification consultant. In addition, he has held senior verification positions with Qualis and Nortel Networks. Paul was also the Invited Visiting Professor of VLSI Design at the University of Aveiro, Portugal prior to emigrating to Canada.
Dr. Karl Siemens
Doug Letcher Doug offers more than 8 years of experience in ASIC design and verification and the past 7 as a consultant in these areas. Doug obtained his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Prior to co-founding XtremeEDA in 2003, Doug gained consulting experience at Intrinsix Corp. Doug's experience in the consulting role allows him to ramp up quickly and identify the needs of a client. Doug has experience with a diverse set of clients including large (TI, AMD, Mentor, Synopsys) and small companies in Canada and the US. Doug's primary focus is ASIC verification where he has relevant experience with SystemVerilog, Specman 'e', C/C++, Matlab, Perl, VHDL. Doug has worked in application areas ranging from video processing to general purpose processors and from networking SOC devices to SDRAM modules. In addition, Doug can handle design work in Verilog and VHDL and has strong technical skills in more general areas such as Linux and scripting.
Bruno Latulippe Bruno has over 19 years of experience in FPGA, ASIC, board and system design. He has worked in commercial, industrial and military products and has been involved in all aspects of ASIC design process, from architecture to production. He developed expertise in state of the art DFT techniques to optimize test cost, improve yield with high quality standard. Prior to coming to Xtreme-EDA, Bruno worked on more than 50 chips in the industry. During the last 3 years, he has successfully built and managed a world-class multi-site DFT team, which included engineers from India. He was also involved in outsourcing test capabilities to a third-party business. Bruno has held increasingly responsible positions including a product engineer, failures analysis and test engineer, ASIC designer and culminating in being a chip leader for 7 years. He has experience with standards protocol like IEEE 1149.6, RapidIO, PCI/PCI-X, VME, Ethernet, DDR-II, ATM, TDM and Processor bus. Bruno was a member of the parallel RapidIO Technical Working Group. Bruno graduated from the Université of Sherbrooke with a Master degree in Electrical Engineering, micro-electronic specialty in 1994 and a Bachelors degree in 1986 in Electrical Engineering. |