Margaret Schmitt

• Business development of simulation solutions for the Consumer, Defense, Automotive, and Medical Electronics industries. Work with industry partners to identify their requirements, build case-studies, and develop simulation solutions tailored to industry-specific system and chip design challenges. • Strategic sales of power and thermal simulation tools for high-speed, low-power, mobile, and high-performance computing applications. Drive strategic relationships with Foundries, IP/Design Services.

Application engineer for gate-level and transistor-level timing tools • Lead application engineer for on-site pre-sales team in new business initiative to establish IBM design tools as commercial EDA solutions. Responsible for pre-sales software demonstration, technical support, customer training, and tool evaluation. Interface with R&D to drive product development, based on target customer requirements and feedback.

Technical lead for timing closure on multi-core microprocessor chip with multi-GHz clock frequency • Team lead responsible for development of automatic timing closure flow based on the Primetime static timing analysis software. Responsible for timing sign-off of all blocks and fullchip. Interface with software development leads to drive closure of tool/flow issues.

Intern, Department of Consumer Electronics, Video/Audio • VHDL design of digital circuits for television Picture-in-Picture processing. Formal verification of design in an FPGA Real-time emulation system.