Matt Genovese

Current

• Founder at Brainshower, LLC
• Founder at door64.com / Austin High-Tech

Past

• Functional Verification Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
• Product & Test Engineer at Motorola
• Test Engineer (co-op) at Northern Telecom (Nortel)

• Software Engineer (co-op) at Northern Telecom (Nortel)
• Systems Engineer (co-op) at Eastman Kodak

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Education

• The University of Texas at Austin
• Rochester Institute of Technology

Recommended

12 people have recommended Matt

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Semiconductors

Matt Genovese’s Summary

I have a number of sides, but foremost I am problem-solver, driving to be the consummate engineer who can relate solutions to people, and vice-versa.

I am the founder of door64.com, and the Austin High-Tech LinkedIn Group. My goal is to enable Central Texas tech professionals to be well-connected to each other. I think there are some phenomenal benefits from a personal and city-wide economic perspective when the technologists of a single geographic area congregate. As of writing this, door64.com has over 5000 members from Texas and beyond. door64 supports online networking, a unified and member-maintained high-tech calendar, and a job board. We have corporate-sponsored face-to-face events periodically that promote peer networking amongst our tech professionals, and most recently door64 held a Tech Fair Austin, TX that drew 37 companies and almost 1000 attendees. I have a vision for economic development, retention, seeding entrepreneurial activities, and enabling tech professionals to achieve a new sense of career security in Austin's high-tech community. door64.com is my vehicle for making this happen.

I am also a Functional Verification engineer for both microprocessors and SoC's, with specialty in test bench construction and verification methodology. I have interests in system architecture and modeling (ESL), performance assessment, and processor architecture. I thrive at solving technical problems. Often a solution stems from realizing analogies: recognizing similar solutions in different problem domains. I love drawing upon my expertise in a variety of areas and making these connections.

I maintain close ties to academia, sitting on an advisory board at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and helping to develop a graduate-level course for electrical engineers at the University of Texas at Austin. I want to see more interaction between academic research and the surrounding technology professional community, which I'm tackling with door64.

Matt Genovese’s Specialties:

Verilog
SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA)
Vera
C / C++, STL
SystemC
Perl
Virtual CPU (V-CPU)
HSpice
Cadence Virtuoso
Java (software development, GUI applications)
Eclipse RCP
DesignSync
CVS
ClearCase

Matt Genovese’s Experience

• Founder

  Brainshower, LLC

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

  Brainshower is all about community building.
  
  I am founder of door64.com, an initiative to coalesce the Central Texas-area high-tech community, helping technology professional become more well-connected with each other and the local technology scene. Since launching and growing this successful online community from zero to 6000 members in just two years (with zero marketing budget), I understand how to use existing social media tools + open-source tools together to create value in a community and attract members. Social media is not necessarily a synonym for community, but today online communities are more easily grown using existing social media tools.
  
  I consult those who want to build and grow online communities, be they individuals, businesses, or city economic development organizations.
  
  I am currently developing a class on practical community building. Learn more here: http://brainshowerconsulting.com/class/pcb

• Founder

  door64.com / Austin High-Tech

  (Civic & Social Organization industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  door64.com is a social network exclusively for Central Texas high-technology professionals. It exists to help us network both online and in person, discover relevant events happening in our area, publicize our expertise, and find local tech employment opportunities.
  
  Most job transitions are made through leads obtained via your peer network. The time to build a professional network is before you need one to rely upon. door64 is here to help you build that network, and make you successful in Central Texas.

• Functional Verification Engineer

  Freescale Semiconductor

  (Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

  March 2002 — February 2009 (7 years )

  * Highly experienced in verification of SoC's, microprocessors (PowerPC), PCI, COP / memory BIST, and much much more.
  * Verification IP & testbench development using Vera, C++, Verilog, and SystemVerilog (assertions).
  * Well versed in directed tests and directed-random testcase generation, as well as testbench construction and verification methodology. Was an IEEE Computer Society guest speaker on the topic.
  * Wrote a simulator from scratch entirely in C++ for implementing and analyzing a bus arbitration algorithm I developed. I did this in my own time, for fun. Yes, I realize that I need better hobbies.
  * I'm relatively well traveled (and in fact, I enjoy it from time to time). I have been to India, China, and Malaysia for project-related activities.

• Product & Test Engineer

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Semiconductors industry)

  January 1998 — March 2002 (4 years 3 months)

  * I was responsible for all aspects of performance enhancement, reliability, feasibility, and manufacture of a communications processor chip family: MPC860
  * Very experienced in probe, final test characterization and debugging, design of fab and assembly experiments to enhance yield and quality, new hardware evaluation and troubleshooting, test program modification and debug, and process and assembly qualifications. In other words, I did all kinds of stuff. I also trained all the new guys.
  * Authored many formal engineering reports and data sheets used by customers, as well as tutorials for evaluation of engineering experiments. Yes, you read right: I'm an engineer who can write.

• Test Engineer (co-op)

  Northern Telecom (Nortel)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  June 1997 — August 1997 (3 months)

• Software Engineer (co-op)

  Northern Telecom (Nortel)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  December 1996 — March 1997 (4 months)

• Systems Engineer (co-op)

  Eastman Kodak

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; EK; Computer Hardware industry)

  November 1995 — May 1996 (7 months)

Matt Genovese’s Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  M.S. , Electrical Engineering , 2004 — 2005

  Enrolled in the Electronic Circuit Design MSEE program at UT-Austin while working full-time at Freescale. Graduated with 4.0/4.0 GPA.

  Activities and Societies:

  Project & Report: "A Tool for Dynamic Data Capture and Visualization in Heterogeneous Simulation Environments" (2005)

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  B.S. , Computer Engineering , September 1992 — December 1997

  Activities and Societies:

  Intervarsity

Additional Information

Matt Genovese’s Interests:

<> Professional (technical): Functional verification, system modeling and ESL, EDA tools, processor architecture, data visualization. <> Professional (web): Social networking and media, community-building. <> Personal: Volleyball, biking, guitar.

Matt Genovese’s Groups:

<> IEEE
<> Advisory Board, Rochester Institute of Technology (Computer Engineering)
<> door64.com

•    Texas Exes/University of Texas at Austin
•    Austin High-Tech
•    The Official IEEE Group
•    Semiconductor Professionals
•    RIT Alumni Group - Rochester Institute of Technology
•    SemiconductorJobs.com
•    Drupal
•    UT Austin Alumni Group
•    ESL Architects
•    Austin Top Guns
•    San Antonio
•    Austin Human Resource Management Association
•    Rochester NY Residents
•    Austonio technology professionals
•    ASIC Design & Verification
•    Central Texas Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
•    Freescale Semiconductor Employees & Alumni
•    Freescale Semiconductor
•    Economic Development Professionals
•    Austin Drupal Users Group
•    NetworkInAustin.com
•    Online Community Manager
•    SuperGroup Founders
•    Tech Ranch
•    Expert's in SystemVerilog/Specman/VERA/System C
•    Careers & Opportunities within Small Business Community
•    Friends of LinkedIn
•    RIT - Kate Gleason College of Engineering Alumni Group
•    ATX Equation
•    Interactive Scene

Matt Genovese’s Honors:

<> Speaker, "Building Community - Lessons from door64.com", ProductCamp Austin (Summer 2009)

<> Panel moderator, "Community Management", Interactive Austin Conference (2009)

<> Panelist at Society for Women Engineers meeting: "The Art of Networking" (2009)

<> Panelist at PubCon South: "Consumer and Community Generated Content" (2009)

<> Guest speaker at Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin: "Networking: The missing college lecture." (2009)

<> Finalist for IT Solution of the Year (AITP): door64.com (2008)

<> Guest lecturer at University of Texas at Austin (Electrical & Computer Engineering): "Device driver development" (2008)

<> Guest speaker, Rochester NY IEEE Computer Society: "Functional Verification Methodology at Freescale Semiconductor" (2006)

Matt Genovese’s Contact Settings

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