Leonard C. Harold

    len@haroldrr.com


    Experience


    Senior Corporate Applications Engineer
    Mentor Graphics Corporation
    July 2000 to April 2008

    Team Lead

    Responsible for distributing call load amongst the team’s application engineers

    Worked with management in identifying and resolving issues involving resource allocation

    Helped new team members with technical training

    Organized and taught at the worldwide application engineer training classes<

    Was liaison to the support sales, synthesis marketing and synthesis development groups

    Senior Application Engineer

    Answered technical questions for external and internal customers

    Assisted younger application engineers with technical issues

    Specialized in bad logic and library development issues

    Setup the final release testing process for synthesis products

    Wrote tech notes as well as editing and reviewing all published notes for synthesis products

    Worked with marketing to define the requirements for an ASIC synthesis product

    IT Specialist

    Managed the group’s hardware assets and capital budget

    Maintained the group web server, license server and UNIX machines

    Assisted group members with UNIX issues

    Worked with IP Engineering to set up their systems for regression testing and debugging of their IP cores


    Network Specialist/VLSI CAD Systems Coordinator
    Microelectronics Research and Communications Institute
    University of Idaho
    August 1993 to July 2000

    VLSI CAD Systems Coordinator

    Organized and tested EDA (VLSI CAD) tool flows

    Managed the Systems Administrator, Assistant Systems Administrators and the Test Engineer

    Network Specialist

    Specified requirements and designed computing networks for both research and academic endeavors

    Worked with the College of Engineering Administration on financial and resource allocation issues

    Managed the Institute's web server including the VLSI and FPGA online databases

    Other Responsibilities

    Managed research projects including Graduate Research Assistants

    Managed the Institute's physical facilities

    Co-taught the “VLSI Design and Digital Logic” classes for the Electrical Engineering department


    Assistant Computer Systems Administrator
    Electrical Engineering Department
    University of Idaho
    May 1993 to August 1993

    Created accounts for faculty and students

    Assisted students with the department's computer systems


    Education


    University of Idaho, B.S.E.E., December 1992

    Additional economics, computer science, and graduate level electrical engineering classes