Dan Clarke

Experience

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  STC Telecommunications Ltd

  Sept 1984 - Dec 1990

  Principal Design Engineer
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  Nortel Networks

  Jan 1991 - May 1996

  Principal Design Engineer

  • Experience of all aspects of logic design on a series of ASICs and FPGAs targeted at telecoms transmission products, especially SDH systems.• Led a team of engineers designing a set of FPGAs required for an access multiplexer project.• Successfully devised and implemented the scan-based test strategy for 2 ASICs in a chip set used in SDH products, drastically improving the fault coverage of previous versions of these ASICs.• Conceived and implemented a method for de-bugging the operation of a DPLL in an SDH application. As a result a major design flaw was corrected.• Managed the introduction of VHDL simulation and synthesis tools to BNR Europe, leading to widespread acceptance of VHDL by design engineers in the UK.• As a member of the “CAE Tools and Methods” group, designed portions of many ASICs, thus demonstrating effective design methodologies to other engineers. Show less

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  Atmel Corporation

  May 1996 - Mar 1997

  Field Applications Engineer

  • Pre- and Post-sales technical support to cell-based ASIC customers.• Performed place & route on customers’ ASIC designs, resulting in successful silicon implementations.• Convinced a major customer through technical presentations and meetings to award a substantial design win to Atmel.

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  Toshiba Electronics UK Ltd

  Mar 1997 - Jan 2001

  Senior Applications Engineer

  • Post-sales technical support to ASIC customers.• Devised and implemented memory BIST strategy for customer designed ASICs.• Performed STA using Primetime on customers’ designs to support ASIC sign-offs.• Designed a 128 bit wide SDRAM, by coding & synthesising interface logic to a Toshiba embedded DRAM cell, to satisfy a customer’s request for a technical proposal.• Managed post-sales technical contacts with customers, leading to successful completion of projects.• Wrote and presented training courses for Toshiba in-house software. Show less

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  LSI, an Avago Technologies Company

  Feb 2001 - Mar 2003

  Senior Design Engineer

  • Initially working as an ASIC design engineer in LSI Logic’s Mint design services organization.• Verification work, using Modelsim & Specman, on an SoC design targeted at 3G handsets.• Later transferring to a design group focusing on ASSPs for the STB market.• Devised test-benches and C code to generate test patterns aimed at identified fault coverage issues in SoC designs. The patterns dramatically reduced the number of defective devices reaching customers.

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  Beach Solutions

  Jun 2003 - Feb 2006

  Technical Account Manager

  • Pre- and post- sales technical support for an EDA start-up producing software to ensure consistency between hardware, software, verification and documentation views of an SoC design.• Designed customised enhancements to Beach’s products for major customers.• Developed and presented training courses and demos for Beach’s products.• Devised and presented demonstrations of Beach’s products at exhibitions including DATE & DAC.• Produced on-line demonstrations of Beach’s products using Techsmith’s Camtasia Studio software. Show less

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  Azuro

  Mar 2006 - Nov 2008

  Senior Applications Engineer

  • Pre- and post- sales technical support for an EDA start-up specialising in physical design tools, particularly with respect to clock tree synthesis for power optimisation and improved quality of results.• Conducted evaluations of Azuro’s products on-site on customers’ premises.• Presented training to over 60 engineers to support successful post-sales deployment of the products.• Integrated Azuro’s software seamlessly into customers’ existing design environments using custom Tcl scripting. Show less

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  Kofax

  Feb 2009 - now

  Technical Services Developer Engineer

  Technical Support for Kofax's products including Kofax Front-Office Server, Kofax e-Transactions and MarkView Financial Suite.