1. Gregg L. S. Buchanan (503) 887-7147
1680 NE 63rd Ave
Hillsboro, OR 97124
greggbuchanan@frontier.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregg-buchanan-1ba09776
SUMMARY
An information visualization specialist with an emphasis on improving workflow productivity.
Areas of expertise include Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Chip Design and Issue
Management. For the last 5 years was the “go-to” expert resource for Microsoft SQL Server
Reporting Services (SSRS) for Intel Corporation. Demonstrated proficiency in Transactional
SQL scripts and performance tuning.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon 1995-2016
Application Developer, 2011 – 2016
 Personally delivered a suite of over 100 dynamic dashboards and reports for Intel Custom
Foundry, enabling thousands of Users to end the practice of managing products manually
with spreadsheets.
 Created, developed, and delivered custom datasets to connect Issue Management
dashboards to a database by securely passing credentials through the query. This enabled
Users to create hundreds of reports in production for many organizations.
 Pioneered practical methods to build reports with an existing Teradata database source,
enabling dashboards to be migrated from Microstrategy to Microsoft SQL Reporting
Services
 Supported of Reporting Services issues and trained new Users online and on site. Sole
owner and contributor for a living help site with dozens of important methods and resources.
Cohost and frequent presenter for the SPBI Users Group.
Design BI Coordinator, 2010 - 2011
Created an effort planning and tracking platform (Guardian) based on web-based forms
connected to a database.
 This new real-time system reconciled many spreadsheets and was central to a system that
was appraised by Intel Finance to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars for improving the
time-to-market of a new processor chip.
Application Developer, 2008 - 2010
Created an effort planning and tracking platform (Guardian) based on web-based forms
connected to a database.
 Pioneered the methodology of extracting source data from a web service using Ab Initio.
Publishing and presenting numerous methodology topics.
 24 hour On-Call Support for Data Warehouse Management.
 Created a web-based application to centralize and better manage critical contacts.

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Senior CAD Engineer, 2000-2008
Created a powerful, reliable, flexible, and scalable automated data collection and reporting
platform for major CPU chip design projects.
 Integrated multiple applications (Linux, MySQL, MS-SQL, Perl, .Net) to gather and present
design data from over 50 different tools over multiple sites in 5 minute intervals.
 Brought leading-edge technology into practical everyday use for a major chip-design project
(>4K users). “These indicators are MUST HAVE for Tejas...We drive our daily execution
based on them.” – Parag Raval, VP (Project Award Q3 2003)
Sr. CAD Applications Engineer, 1997-2000
 Supported hundreds of Reliability Validation CAD tool users worldwide.
 Creation of training materials, on-line tutorials, and Athena RV web site. Voted Instructor of
the Year.
 Innovated intranet “Solution Tree” from detailed analysis of help requests.
 Created living “Errors and Warnings” page for troubleshooting tool results on the chip layout.
Mask Designer, 1995-1997
 Instructed Mask Design training.
 Developed cell library tool flows and design methodology.
 Responsible for definition, training and documentation of cell library.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Micro Systems Engineering, Lake Oswego, OR 1990 – 1995
Medical and Military Microelectronics
Hybrid Design Manager
Managed 11 designers and documentation specialists for Mil-STD and FDA approved company.
 Developed and patented Linear-Trim resistor and proliferated it to all medical products.
 Re-engineered resistor design and laser trim methodology.
 Specified and piloted Computer Aided Design platform.
Pacific Hybrid Microelectronics, Tigard, OR 1984 - 1990
Commercial Microelectronics
Design Engineer
 Performed Hybrid Design and documentation.
 Interfaced with customer through complete product cycle from quotations through delivery.
EDUCATION / TRAINING
Bachelor of Science, Physics
University of California, Riverside, California
Associate of Arts
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California