Research Triangle Park, NC
In September of 1983, GE hired me as a Computer Scientist in their North Carolina Microelectronics Center. I developed both automatic and interactive graphics tools to perform layout of integrated circuits. Functions performed by my tools included gate array master design, development and maintenance of a component macro library, component placement, wire routing and integration of the design process. Software tools ran on Tektronix graphics terminals in a VAX/VMS environment and were developed in FORTRAN, MainSail and C languages.

Milpitas, CA
In January of 1987, GE promoted me to Project Manager and transferred me to their Calma subsidiary in California. There I developed automatic and interactive placers and routers in C to run in the Sun/UNIX environment.