1. William Allen
Woburn, MA billtpe@gmail.com
(508) 561-6178 www.linkedin.com/in/BillAllenEngineering
Summary Statement
Highly creative and motivated technical professional in the semiconductor industry Has a very successful technical career that
has culminated in several successful startups and now brings that knowledge to help grow programs in the industry. I am seeking
employment as a Sr. Field Application Engineer.
Key Accomplishments
• Closed on large Phased Array Radar Program that contained intelligent DC/DC Modules up to AC/DC trays program is
greater than 50M in sales
• Bid on, closed, developed specifications then lead a multi ASIC Broad band AC Tester chipset Program
• Designed a ESCON and Fiberchannel System for IBM communications connect. (ESCON to Ethernet or SCSI etc.)
• Lead Verification team for startup Astral Point that was then purchased buy Alcatel
• Started and built a cleaning Company to 500K per year then sold.
Professional Experience
Field Sales Engineer
AD Sales Inc. 2013 – 2016
• Success in bringing some fairly large programs for International Rectifier, both power modules and FETs
• Very large program beginning with full isolated and non- Isolated DC/DC Modules
• Several major AC/DC programs from Medical through Battery Backed supplies and High power front ends
• Support Different customers from Very High Power designs including IGBTs Higher power FET and Inductors
• Great experience in the Space qualified realm, supporting Memories POLs and cameras amongst others
• Clear understanding displays and where and how they fit certain systems. High volume close.
• Wireless Customers both Wifi and custom with Modules, filters and Antennas
Field Applications Engineer
Nu Horizons Electronics 2010 – 2013
• Had a very high level of understanding of all the latest products from several Microprocessor Lines, Linear Tech
and other DC/DC and AC/DC controllers and supplies. Communications and Graphics.
• Designed touch Panel with Atmel controller.
• Responsible for helping engineers design in the analog digital and power products on the line card.
• Wireless protocols – Zigbee/802.15.4, Bluetooth and BLE, and WIFI 802.11abgn
• C and C++ programming multiple design tools including Spice simulations for power design
• IEEE 1588 PTP support for Ehternet Components – Semtech, Marvel, Vitesse
• Expertise in Marvell, Vitesse, Atmel, Micrel, ST, Linear Tech, Microchip, Semtech, Micron, among others.
• Expertise in power from low power battery power to high power Lighting and Laser Power.
Vice President Onshore Development
Siliance Inc. 2007 - 2009
• Started local Consulting Group and developed relationships with Customers and Consultants charged with
Hardware and Firmware development. Including Chip Design and Verification as well as system level
development
• Includes assessing client’s development needs and matching them with a team that will provide the solution.
Director of Engineering
ASIC Alliance, Inc. 1998 – 2004
Director of Engineering for a hardware engineering consulting firm providing system, board, ASIC, and FPGA
development services. Responsibilities include:

2. • Business development activities including: customer needs assessment, project scoping, budgeting, proposal
generation, and development partner identification.
• Management of a direct staff of 40 hardware design and verification engineers.
• Project management for multiple concurrent development efforts, including:
• Teradyne - Catalyst BBAC – 17 FPGAs Digital portion of a Broad Band AC instrument
• Teradyne Panther HSD DV – ASIC and System Level Verification for HS Digital Tester
• Verification of 3 ASICs at the System Level
• Verification of the HSD extracted netlist and FPGAs
• Direct Management of BroadBand AC Instrument using ASICs
• 8M Gates Source and Digital ASICs
• Designed Source and Capture ASICs – 7.5 M Gates
• Designed Panther Specific Interface FPGA - 2M Gates
• Full Block and System Level Verification on devices5 Communications Engagements at different Customers
• Expanded projects with key customers from $3M in 2001 to $8M in 2002.
Direct Project Technical and Management Activities
Client: MMC Networks Inc., Chelmsford, MA
• Managing offsite verification effort on a flow scheduler for ATM Switch Fabric
Client: Nortel Networks Inc., Ottawa Canada
• Managing offsite verification effort on a TI GS20 ATM Queue Manager ASIC
Client: Rajmataj Corp., Marlboro, MA
• Developed a Verification and Implementation Strategy, including detailed schedule for a RAID disk Cache and
fabric system.
Client: Astral Point Communication Corp., Chelmsford, MA
• Managed a team of 6 design/verification resources, and contributed to a successful Verification effort for a multi
board ATM fabric Switch product.
• Direct interface with VP of Engineering on behalf of team;
• Succeeded in managing resources for the project schedule to within 2 weeks of initial predicted schedule dates.
Senior Project Manager
ESP Solutions Group 2006 – 2007
• Prepared and aided in the Documentation of State Wide Student Data Proposal and Specification.
• Managed multiple strands in the delivery of new database Software and Data Specification
• Managed Client and internal expectations in the midst of a highly critical and various breakdowns in delivery.
President
Allen Productions, Inc 2003 – 2006
• Grew business from inception to 450,000 per year in 3 years.
• Developed Marketing Plan 1 year added 500 customers.
• Maintained relationships over time had 50 customers last three or more years
• Networked with other businesses to help support each other.
• Worked with several print and online sources to generate qualified leads with 30% close rate.
Principle Hardware Engineer & Manager
Bus Tech. Inc., Burlington, MA 1991 – 1998
• Design and verification of 10/100Mbit Ethernet to 200Mbit ESCON System.
• Design of PCI to IBM 200Mbit Fiber channel and Bus and Tag Interface boards.
• Design of 200Mbit ESCON Interface to ATM Controller card for IBM 8260 System.
• Designer of numerous controllers including PCI Interface all with FPGA or CPLDs.

3. • Design of EISA to 200Mbit IBM Fiber channel and Bus and Tag Interface boards.
• Firmware design for dual Ethernet to IBM Bus and Tag Controller.
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Self-Employed, Houston, TX
Designed Gas Chromatograph
Hardware Development Consultant
Netcon Inc. Houston, TX
Director of Hardware Engineering
Nixdorf Computer Engineering Corp., Burlington, MA
Senior Engineer
Avocation
Lead Seminars on Leadership and Transformational Thinking – Currently Concord Prison - 2015
Landmark Education
Seminar Leader
• Prepared and Led Personal and professional transformational Seminars to as many as 170 participants
• Highly trained and effective at having Individual and group coaching to cause people to create breakthroughs in
what they are committed to.
Trained and developed Introduction Leaders to be successful in generating Leads and close business
Education
Landmark Education Corp., Boston, MA
• Graduate of 4-part Curriculum for Living
• Introduction Leaders Program
 Successfully completed 6-month intensive leadership program, Introduction Leaders Program
 Coached and trained participants and coaches for 1.5 years
• Graduate of Communication Access to Power Course
• Seminar Leader Program – successfully completed 2 years of intensive training to lead Transformational Seminars to
as many as 150 people.
BSEE Program
NorthEastern University, Boston, MA
Operating Systems : All versions of Windows, Solaris, Polaris, Linux
System Design – VMEII, EISA, PCI, PCIe, ESCON, Fiberchannel
Languages - System Verilog/AVM, C/C++,, VERA, SystemC, Matlab, TestBuilderPlus, PREP, Design Compiler,
Covermeter,
VCS, ModelSim, Verilog, NCVerilog, VHDL, PERL, TCL, make, Emacs,
Assembly languages – x86, 960, IBM370,DG, DEC
Programmable Devices Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, Actel(Microsemi)
Processors – x86, 960, ARM, Coldfire, 68k 32000. Atmel, ST, Microchip, (several 8 bit)
Wireless Communications – Zigbee, 802.15.4 – Bluetooth/BLE – WIFI 802.11abgn