Experienced Technical Project Manager and Developer
Greater Boston Area
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- Principle Architect at BlurbBits / Creative Cruising Concepts
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- Senior Engineering Manager at Innoveda/Mentor Graphics
- VP of Engineering Services and Co-Founder at Transcendent Design Technology
- Signal Integrity Group Manager at Viewlogic
- Member of Technical Staff at Quad Design Technology
- CAE Library Group Member at Data General
- Education
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- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Chris Myles’s Summary
A self-motivated, enthusiastic and customer oriented design engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment that encourages creativity and use of problem solving, design analysis, and interpersonal skills.
Proven ability to take products from vision through entire life cycle: requirements analysis, specification, design, implementation and testing, documentation, training, technical marketing and maintenance/support as project/group manager and individual contributor.
Chris Myles’s Specialties:
brain storming/problem solving
design architecture
project management
outside the box, big picture visionary
Chris Myles’s Experience
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Principle Architect
BlurbBits / Creative Cruising Concepts
(Think Tanks industry)
December 2003 — Present (6 years )
- Completed a five year, 32,000 mile sailing adventure (approx 6000 hours at sea) including a 24-day non-stop passage from Mexico to the Marquesas Islands.
- Envisioned and developed multiple websites and blogs to provide resources and details to help educate fellow sailors/adventurers.
----- BlurbBits (blurbbits.blogspot.com) is a set of utilities that allows users to blog, map, and share photos using email. BlurbBits combines industry leading functionality and APIs (Blogger, Google Maps, Picasa, Flickr, YouTube, etc) to provide a flexible environment with full-featured results through low bandwidth communication platforms (adaptable to mobile devices).
----- Creative-cruising.com documents the technical details of my sailing experience and answers questions about what really works (and doesn't) in very remote locations so that a couple on their own sailboat can survive, communicate, and feel at ease for extended periods without any “modern” support facilities (grocery stores, mechanics, phones or internet).
- Provided offshore outfitting consulting services and technical support for troubleshooting of on-board systems. Adapted satellite photos and Google Earth to facilitate navigation while sailing in remote, uncharted, or miss-charted areas. Distributed resulting chartlets utilizing GPS tracks and waypoints to replace non-existent or outdated cruising guides. Developed data backup strategies to enable recovery of critical on-board computer systems without access to any remote support. -
Senior Engineering Manager
Innoveda/Mentor Graphics
(Computer Software industry)
August 1999 — November 2003 (4 years 4 months)
- Led the successful development of an integrated electro-mechanical design automation suite, TransDesign, which was adopted by Ford Motor Company, Jaguar, Aston Martin and their respective OEM suppliers as their principal automotive electrical systems design tool.
- Team lead and key developer of TransAct (physical schematic generation), which synthesizes correct by construction physical schematics using logical schematics and a physical wiring topology, including adaptive physical change management. Led project from conception through innovation, design, engineering, and QA to deliver production software ahead of schedule, exceeding design goals and customer expectations.
- Primary developer of TransHarness, a wire harness design tool that automatically generates connector face views and filters option/variants, to facilitate multi-level physical harness design from a harness schematic and physical wiring topology. Met with key players, from design engineers to manufacturing plant team leads (on site), and delivered a fully functional prototype in one month to meet a critical Ford supplier adaptation milestone.
Innoveda acquired Transcendent Design and was later acquired by Mentor Graphics -
VP of Engineering Services and Co-Founder
Transcendent Design Technology
(Design industry)
January 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 8 months)
- Managed consulting services, customer support, and engineering services, including quality assurance, documentation, and system administration with limited resources.
- Utilized Viewscript and custom APIs to create a flexible, rapid prototype environment for solution architects. Resulting solutions often became core product features and functionality.
- Principal architect of TransAct. Collaborated face-to-face with key customers and early TransDesign adopters to understand key usage models and translate requirements into actionable specifications. TransAct automates the time consuming and error prone process of manually generating physical schematics for design reviews, simulation, and service manuals.
Formed during the merger of Viewlogic and Synopsys (Spinout of the Advanced Development Group) -
Signal Integrity Group Manager
Viewlogic
(Public Company; VIEW; Computer Software industry)
March 1992 — January 1998 (5 years 11 months)
- Prioritized software development to deliver XTK, the industry leading high-speed signal integrity and crosstalk analysis software, with a small team of four engineers. XTK was adopted as the primary signal integrity analysis tool at Intel, HP, Compact, Digital, Dell, EMC and Sun Micro.
- Principal developer responsible for XTK. Developed key driver algorithms for non-linear rise time controlled devices including support for simultaneous switching output (SSO) current effects.
- Collaborated with core Intel technologists to deliver enhanced XTK algorithms and functionality to support the next generation Merced Multi-Chip Module (MCM) microprocessors in three months. Intel recommended XTK as the signal integrity and SSO noise analysis suite for OEMs developing systems incorporating the Merced microprocessor.
- Balanced core products with advance development projects for DARPA, leading a team of four PhD-level engineers. Quiet (EMI analysis), Quiet Expert (Rules based EMI expert system) and AC/Grade (Ground plane analysis) all evolved into commercial products
Viewlogic acquired Quad Design (1993) -
Member of Technical Staff
Quad Design Technology
(Design industry)
November 1990 — March 1992 (1 year 5 months)
- Automated the process of extracting SPICE results into XTK driver models, dramatically increasing end user acceptance by allowing enhanced device models to be developed in-house.
- Provided in-depth technical support and developed/delivered training classes to customers and application engineers using Quad Design’s timing, signal integrity, and crosstalk analysis software.
- Identified key issues and tracked bug/enhancement requests through engineering development and tested resulting products for quality assurance/acceptance. -
CAE Library Group Member
Data General
(Public Company; DGN; Computer Hardware industry)
July 1989 — October 1990 (1 year 4 months)
Streamlined the library development process for timing and signal integrity tools. Interfaced with engineering groups and software tool vendors to resolve issues and ensure full project support.
Chris Myles’s Education
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
BSEE , Electrical Engineering
I studied electrical engineering but struggled with the things I could not visualize, Signal Integrity, EMI, Crosstalk and Timing Analysis. I started writing software after college and spent my career developing products to assist in those areas.
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Chris Myles’s Interests:
Sailing, Travel, Photography, Education, Journalism, Web2.0, Google Maps, Brain Storming
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