
Owner/Senior Design Engineer, Sagetek Consulting, LLC
Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Owner/Senior Design Engineer, Sagetek Consulting, LLC
Fort Collins, Colorado Area
Michelle is a senior ASIC Design Engineer and the owner of Sagetek Consulting, LLC. Sagetek provides ASIC and FPGA design and test services. We assist our clientele with the conception, design and test of integrated circuits. Sagetek provides consulting services in addition to employee referrals to semiconductor companies.
CAD Tools Sets: Cadence, Synopsys, MAGMA, Mentor Graphics, IKOS
Languages: Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, CSH, C, Perl, HTML, PLI, TCL, Python
Simulation: VCS, NCSim, Modelsim, Verilog-XL, Silos, Summit Visual HDL
Static Timing: Primetime
DFT: TetraMax, Fastscan, TestKompress
FPGA: Synplicity, Xilinx
Assertions: SystemVerilog, 0in
Formal Training: AT/IDE, SCSI, SSA, 1394, Disk Drive Technology, Servo Technology, PRML, LSI Flexstream tool flow, MAGMA Blast Create,SystemVerilog
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Semiconductors industry)
2008 — Present (less than a year)
(Sole Proprietorship; Semiconductors industry)
2000 — Present (8 years)
ASIC front-end experience from conception to prototype debug including architecture, HDL design, testbench and vector development, SOC integration, synthesis, STA, and DFT.
(Self-Employed; Graphic Design industry)
1996 — Present (12 years)
Developed several websites for clients predominantly within the music industry. Graphic design for CD packaging and promo material. Familiar with Adobe (Photoshop, Dreamweaver), Macromedia Homesite, Quark and Quicktime software. I have experience with video and music editing and online store setup.
(Public Company; TAD; Semiconductors industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Chip synthesis of a 130nm design. Timing analysis. Real-time synthesis and simulation results posted to web page.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Semiconductors industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
Worked with analog circuit designer to architect, design and integrate digital support logic surrounding an analog pixel array circuit for a test chip.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Semiconductors industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
CPLD to ASIC conversion of a small Drum controller design.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Semiconductors industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
DFT and IDE development.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TI; Semiconductors industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year)
Chip-level and IDE test development.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Semiconductors industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year)
Miscellaneous SOC integration and testing.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADPT; Semiconductors industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Chip-level synthesis, static timing analysis, and Scan/JTAG insertion for a SATA RAID controller.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Static Timing Analysis of six designs.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
TPA Division (formerly Adaptec’s Peripheral Technology Solutions Department). Predominantly worked on next-generation IDE target interface design. Participated in company's Reusable Design initiative.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADPT; Semiconductors industry)
1995 — 1999 (4 years)
Target IDE design and test.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NCR; Semiconductors industry)
1993 — 1995 (2 years)
Microelectronic Products Division (a.k.a. AT&T GIS, Symbios, Hyundai)
Designed the DMA interface, capable of automated SSA SCSI message handling, of industry’s first SSA data controller chip.
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
1991 — 1991 (less than a year)
MS, Electrical Engineering, 1991 — 1993
BS, Electrical Engineering Technology, 1987 — 1991
Music, Outdoors, Travel
IEEE, SWE
Patent No. 5,613,136, Locality Manager Having Memory and Independent Code, Bus Interface Logic, and Synchronization Components for a Processing Element for Intercommunication in a Latency Tolerant Multiple Processor, March 1997