Senior Engineering Manager/Program Manager
Austin, Texas Area
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- Principal at LinDevelopment
- Past
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- Senior Program Manager - SoC Silicon Engineering at AMD
- Senior Program Manager/Technical Project Manager at AMD
- Product Engineering Manager at AMD
- SMTS Systems Engineer at AMD
- President and Founder at Paramax (Transputers)
- Applications Engineer at INMOS
- Applications Engineer at Motorola
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David W. Smith’s Summary
Widely-experienced Development and Engineering Manager.
Strong experience in complex project management, program management, engineering development, and customer support.
Very wide experience in all aspects of systems design, computing and embedded design, and the management of teams in these areas.
Recent critical experience in Silicon engineering and design methodology.
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David W. Smith’s Specialties:
Program Management and Product Design Methodology
Team and Group Management
Product and Systems Design and Development
Silicon Design and Verification Technology and Methodology
PCB and Platform Circuits and Design
Systems Test Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
Customer, Partner, and Vendor Management
David W. Smith’s Experience
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Principal
LinDevelopment
(Computer Hardware industry)
2002 — Present (7 years)
Technology consulting and start-up for development of ideas.
Capabilities include project management, hardware and firmware engineering, IP collection, business model, documentation and manufacturing support.
Multiple product design efforts completed. -
Senior Program Manager - SoC Silicon Engineering
AMD
(Public Company; AMD; Semiconductors industry)
February 2008 — January 2009 (1 year)
Drive development of AMD silicon products (Opteron, Phenom, and future products); drive development and creation of IP, coordinate integration of available resources and technology into completed AMD CPU devices. Responsible for the management of engineering resources, tools, forecasts, methodologies and procedures for AMD flagship products.
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Senior Program Manager/Technical Project Manager
AMD
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMD; Computer Hardware industry)
April 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Senior Program Manager/Technical Project Manager
Provides critical management of technical and business aspects of computer platform development, provisioning and support. Directly responsible for over $100M in product creation, development, and testing of Tier 1 customer server and workstation systems.
Responsible for internal improvement programs providing constant process upgrading.
Directly interfacing with customers, sales teams and internal services, to guarantee customer satisfaction in all aspects technical. -
Product Engineering Manager
AMD
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMD; Computer Hardware industry)
March 2002 — April 2006 (4 years 2 months)
Managed Manufacturing Technology world-wide for the AMD Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) program, at AMD.
Providing management and direction for Manufacturing Engineering, Design-for-Manufacturing, Test Engineering, Regulatory Approval processes, Manufacturing Documentation, and Component Engineering.
Specialties:
Manufacturing Process Management
Manufacturing Engineering
Test Engineering
Systems Validation
Documenation Support
Product Labeling
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SMTS Systems Engineer
AMD
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMD; Computer Hardware industry)
1992 — 2005 (13 years)
Several positions in various divisions, including:
- Advanced Research and Development
- Multimedia Products Group
- Embedded Products Division
Served as AMD representative to the PIC SIG for five years and sat on the PCI SIG Board of Directors for three years. Involved on the technical committee for PCI-X and other tech. initiatives. -
President and Founder
Paramax (Transputers)
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
January 1990 — March 1992 (2 years 3 months)
This was a company started by me to sell Inmos Transputer-based equipment. My products shown on this page: http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/
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Applications Engineer
INMOS
(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)
1986 — 1990 (4 years)
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Applications Engineer
Motorola
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)
1978 — 1983 (5 years)
Additional Information
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David W. Smith’s Interests:
Photography, Technology, Skiing, Travel
David W. Smith’s Honors:
Sixteen Patents.
6285601 09/04/01
6308255 10/23/01
6389488 05/14/02
6564272 05/13/03
6629178 09/30/03
6781429 08/24/04
6842803 01/11/05
6924682 08/02/05
6973566 12/06/05
6985519 01/10/06
7096353 08/22/06
7197768 03/27/07
7206933 04/17/07
7325250 01/29/08
7383432 06/03/08
7430223 09/30/08
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