BIOGRAPHY
Bill has worked over thirty years developing high
technology semiconductor products for consumer, computer, telecommunication,
military and medical markets using CMOS, BI-CMOS and Bipolar technologies. He holds five patents and is the author of
several papers and publications dealing with integrated circuit design
techniques and design firsts. During his career, he has received several
employer presidential awards for technical contribution and management.
In his most recent role, Bill served as SVP Engineering
Broadband Access from 2006-2010 at Ikanos/Conexant, where he was responsible
for Product Portfolio Management, Product/IP Design and Development (VLSI, AMS
(High Speed and Power Management), Custom DSP (High Speed/Low Power), Software,
Firmware, Hardware and System Engineering. During his tenure, six new xDSL
products for Central Office, Customer Premise and Residential Gateway markets
and three new network products (Gb Packet Switch, 2.5G Network Processor and
EPON/GPON ONU) were developed. He led the first implementations in 90nm and 65
nm CMOS technology enabling the integration of voice, wireless, SERDES (1.25-5G)
and 10/100/1000 Ethernet.
He served as VP of Product Development from 2003-2006 and interim CEO (2004-2005)
at Ziptronix, an early stage 3D-IC company, where he developed the first 3D SoC
prototype with 2B+ transistors (fully functional), establishing a $50M revenue forecast.
Prior to joining Ziptronix, he served as Vice President Nortel Networks
Microelectronics Division from 1998-2001 and held VP product development
positions at Vitesse Semiconductor (2001-2002) and Mindspeed Technologies in
2003.
He worked at Nortel Networks for sixteen years assuming
increasing responsibility for the technology, people and business over his
tenure. Upon his departure, the Microelectronics
division developed 64 products per year using Foundry, ASIC and Custom flows in
CMOS, SiGe and Bipolar technologies. The
products ranged from high volume 1M units per year to complex digital devices nearly
10M gates complexity. He managed a
portfolio consisting of analog, mixed signal and digital devices from concept
through end of life. The organization
consisted of 350 people located in the US,
Canada and UK, and operated
on a budget of $70M. The business unit generated in excess of $900M revenue in
2000. He also served as part of the Acquisition, Investment and Divestiture
team.
His team developed the underlying technology for Nortel
Flagship Products in Switching (DMS100/100), Multiservices (Passport
7000/15000), Core Switching (XA-CORE) and METRO-CORE (Optera–Core). As well as
introduced groundbreaking Cable Modem, DSL and Line Card Wireless and Opto-electronics
technology over his tenure.
Prior to joining Nortel Networks he was with General
Electric Semiconductor involved in the development of standard cell and gate
array products for commercial, industrial and defense markets from 1981 through
1986. From 1976 through 1981, he worked
with NCR to develop the embedded technology for UPC scanners, Retail and Hospitality
systems.
He received his MS in solid-state Physics (Minor in Adv
Computer Architectures) from North Carolina State University in 1984 and his
BSEE in Integrated Circuit Design and Fabrication (Minor in Analog Design) in
1975 from the University of Cincinnati.
