Timothy D. Dorney
`5102 Stillbrooke Drive, Houston, TX 77035-3131
`Home: (713) 728-4469 Office: (713) 890-1728 E-mail: tdorney@ieee.org
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`SUMMARY
`An organized, creative professional offering extensive electrical engineering, VLSI design, testing, and patent
`prosecution experience. Strengths include full custom IC design, critical path optimization and switching noise
`reduction, layout, verification, parasitic back annotation, and debug. Managed several activities to improve device
`performance and project schedule. Technical lead for literal and equivalent patent claim infringement opinions.
`Developed and taught DRAM design and project specific material to joint ventures and in-house. A dependable,
`thorough, results-oriented team player who strives to find creative solutions.
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`SKILLS & ADVANCED COURSES
`C, Windows C, FORTRAN, Pascal, Assembly, BASIC, PWS tslang
`TISpice, Cadence Analog Artist, Mentor Graphics Design Architect and IC Station, ADCAP,
`ICE, LSIM, Siganal, MATLAB, AWK, HTML, Windows, UNIX, Interleaf, MS Office
`Hardware:
`PC, Macintosh, DEC, HP, Apollo, Sun, Flex and Colt IIIA device testers
` Wavelets
` Six Sigma Design for Manufacturability
` Random Processes
` Advanced DSP
` Digital Control
` Filter Theory
` Artificial Neural Networks
` Digital Image Processing
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`Image Feature Extraction
` Speech Processing
` Spectral Estimation
` Leading Effective Meetings
` Computer Architecture
` Presentation Skills
` VLSI
` PC board design and manufacture
` Communication Theory
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` 2001 - 2003
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` 1994 - 2001
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` 1988 - 1998
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`PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
`Rosenthal & Osha L.L.P., Houston, TX
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` Patent Agent
`Applied broad area of experience to originate over 50 utility patent applications per year. Technical fields include
`analog and digital circuits, microprocessor architecture, computer system design, and digital signal processing
`(DSP). Responded to both national and international Office Actions, and filed RCEs in response to Advisory
`Actions. Managed 5 person team focused on protecting microprocessor core IP. Mentored patent engineers and
`reviewed draft applications.
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`Rice University, Houston, TX
` Research Associate - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
`Utilized a wide variety of DSP techniques for terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy. Solved inverse problems,
`improved resolution, and facilitated imaging and classification for real-time THz systems. Authored 9 journal
`articles, and presented and/or authored papers for 16 conferences or lecture series. Other areas of investigation
`include wavelets, speech processing, biomedical imaging, and computer architecture.
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`Texas Instruments Incorporated, Houston, TX
` MOS Memory Design
` Circuits Center of Expertise Engineer - Memory Products Design
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` Originated comparisons of internal and competitor designs through simulation, characterization, deprocessing, and
`internal probe. Identified and evaluated key aspects of DRAM designs by interacting with design teams, product
`engineering, competitor analysis group, and external resources to gather and disseminate information. Built web
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`pages to report the analysis to a broad audience. Integrated information and made sound conclusions from which
`future designs could draw.
` Promoted and helped implement the formation of the Circuits COE that resulted in being the only individual
`contributor chosen from the Houston design center.
` Achieved an 8% speed improvement in access time through a redesign of the critical path and output buffers.
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`Identified and correlated device processing characteristics which degraded signal transmission and device
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` Simulated and summarized the work on competing access versus hold time specifications which demonstrated
`that additional regulation circuitry was not needed.
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` 1990 - 1997
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`IC Design Engineer - Application Specific DRAM Design
` Demonstrated engineering breadth and depth through the design, simulation, probe, debug, and test support of
`various major sections on at least five devices, two of which had 95M units shipped with $525M in sales. These
`included row and row redundancy, column and column redundancy, design-for-test, I/O buffers, internal refresh,
`and data I/O. Performed full-chip schematic verification, design rule verification, and probe versus simulation
`comparison. Supported the leadframe design, ESD implementation, parasitic back annotation, laser repair, and
`layout.
` Originated six patents and two pending patents that focused on reduced silicon usage and improved DRAM
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` Traveled to Japan (KTI), and Singapore (TECH) for Design support and training.
`TI-Singapore for T3/batch testing support.
` Spearheaded new hire activities and on-campus recruiting which resulted in at least ten new employees.
` Mentored and supervised engineers and layout support to achieve on-time schematic verification.
` Selected point person by V.P. to assemble a team, create, and help instruct "DRAM Design for Non-DRAM
`Designers". Implemented the course both in Europe and Asia Pacific region.
`Investigated and audited TI's first commercial 64 megabit Synchronous DRAM column, internal refresh,
`voltage regulators, and power-up circuitry.
` Provided weekly training of DRAM design basics to Houston PDE/CQE engineers.
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`Product Development Engineer - Video RAM Development
` Programmed a PWS Colt IIIA device tester for gross functional tests and test time reduction. Drafted specification
`sheets. Created and updated device comparison tables. Resolved customer issues including returned device
`evaluation and device specification comparison.
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`EDUCATION
`Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX - 2002. (4.0/4.0)
`M.S., Electrical Eng. and Applied Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH - 1992. (3.8/4.0)
`B.S., Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX - 1990. (3.6/4.0)
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`HONORS & CERTIFICATIONS
` Registered Patent Agent - USPTO
` Honors Program Diploma, Texas A&M
` Engineer in Training - Texas
` Cum Laude, Texas A&M University
` Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
` Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society
` Boy Scout Eagle Palms Award
` Tau Beta Pi Honor Society
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