Doug Brown

Current

• Software Architect at OptNgn Software, LLC

Past

• Hardware Engineer at Micro Magic
• Hardware Engineer at nVIDIA
• Hardware Engineer at Real Intent

• Hardware Engineer at Juniper Networks
• Hardware Engineer at Micro Magic
• Software Engineer at Portland Software
• Software Engineer at Summit Design
• Software Engineer at Translogic Technology
• Software Engineer at Lattice Semiconductor
• Software Engineer at Test Systems Strategies
• Software Engineer at Tektronix
• Software Engineer at Metheus
• Software Engineer at Tektronix
• Graduate Research Assistant at Computer-based Education Research Lab
• System Programmer at Computer-based Education Research Lab

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Springfield High School

• New Trier High School

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Connections

89 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• my website
• my resume
• my publications

Doug Brown’s Experience

• Software Architect

  OptNgn Software, LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2007 — Present (1 year)

  OptNgn delivers:
  -Hardware code libraries for FPGA acceleration of High Performance Computing applications in finance, bioinformatics, science, and signal processing.
  -Hardware code libraries for FPGA usage in Embedded Systems applications.

• Hardware Engineer

  Micro Magic

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years)

  datapath technology mapping
  automatic design-rule extraction from foundry report
  automatic schematic generation from verilog

• Hardware Engineer

  nVIDIA

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years)

  verilog compilation
  automatic datapath placement, sizing, buffering
  layout display
  congestion analysis

• Hardware Engineer

  Real Intent

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  2002 — 2003 (1 year)

  clock domain boundary crossing analysis
  gui for formal verification analyses

• Hardware Engineer

  Juniper Networks

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  2001 — 2002 (1 year)

  datapath design
  datapath layout
  datapath verification

• Hardware Engineer

  Micro Magic

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

  datapath design
  datapath layout
  datapath verification
  schematic editor enhancements

• Software Engineer

  Portland Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year)

  encrypted server-server and server-client communication

• Software Engineer

  Summit Design

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year)

  automatic board test program compression

• Software Engineer

  Translogic Technology

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year)

  formal equivalence checking tool development

• Software Engineer

  Lattice Semiconductor

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  1994 — 1995 (1 year)

  mixed-signal simulation tool development

• Software Engineer

  Test Systems Strategies

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1988 — 1994 (6 years)

  board test software
  waveform editor development
  release management
  software for release management

• Software Engineer

  Tektronix

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1984 — 1988 (4 years)

  module generator project manager
  summer AI student supervision

• Software Engineer

  Metheus

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1981 — 1984 (3 years)

  analog and digital simulation gui development

• Software Engineer

  Tektronix

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1977 — 1981 (4 years)

  microprocessor design aid software development
  simulation support for corporate ecad

• Graduate Research Assistant

  Computer-based Education Research Lab

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  1974 — 1977 (3 years)

  schematic editor development
  analog simulation gui development

• System Programmer

  Computer-based Education Research Lab

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  1970 — 1974 (4 years)

  various software tasks contributing to development of PLATO system

Doug Brown’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  MS, Electrical Engineering, 1974 — 1976

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  BS, Electrical Engineering, 1970 — 1974

• Springfield High School

  1967 — 1970

• New Trier High School

  1966 — 1967

Additional Information

Doug Brown’s Websites:

• my website
• my resume
• my publications

Doug Brown’s Honors:

Listed among 25 Technical Innovators by CRN, 2003 http://www.crn.com/it-channel/18825109

Doug Brown’s Contact Settings

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