Curriculum Vitae.

Paul FLOYD

Email: see my main web page

Age 57, Married
Driving licence

Work Experience.

February 2020 to present. Siemens EDA

• Senior Software Developer. C++, C, Linux
• Fast SPICE simulation.

November 2020 to present. Valgrind developer.

• FreeBSD port maintainer.
• Active work on maintenance and new features.
• Volunteer work done in spare time.

December 2012 to December 2019. Atrenta / Synopsys/

• Software Architect. C++, Linux
• Developing power reduction tools

July 2006 to November 2012. Mentor Graphics

• Senior Software Developer, C, Linux, Windows, Solaris
• gcc
• Developing a Verilog-AMS mixed signal simulator
• Contributed to the Verilog-AMS 2.3 LRM
• Quality improvement with Purify and Valgrind
• Coverity Prevent static code analysis tool

January 2001 to June 2006 Simucad Design Automation / Silvaco Grenoble Research Centre

• Senior Developer/Team Leader, C, C++, scripts, Solaris, Linux, NT and HP
• Sun C++, gcc, HP aCC
• Developing tools for extraction of parasitic capacitance from interconnects in integrated circuits
• GUI, modelling and interfacing with other Silvaco & industry tools

June 1999 to December 2000 Focal Ingénierie Sud, Meylan

• Software Engineer - Integration, C, Windows NT, DOS
• Microsoft VC++ 6 and 1.5
• Utilities for preloading the OS, software and BIOS on HP PCs on the production line

August 1997 to May 1999 Netmansys, Meylan

• Software Engineer - C++ on Sun Solaris
• 2nd line customer support - C++ code generator for TMN agents (telecomms network management)
• Defect detection - patch creation
• Customer training - course development and delivery

March 1996 to August 1997 Euronav, Port Solent, UK

• Software Engineer - Microsoft VC++ 4 and 5, MFC and STL
• Navigation software for boats
• Digital vector marine charts
• Customer support - Windows OEM library allowing access to the digital charts (C)

July 1994 to May 1995 Darwell Datascan, Tamworth, UK

• Contract work - part time (20hrs/week average)
• Image processing and editing package
• Windows 3.1, MFC, MS VC++ 1.5 and some assembler

January 1993 to August 1993 ICI Imagedata, Brantham, UK

• Contract - continuation of work for my thesis
• Mathematical model of laser induced heating in optical thin films
• DOS, MS C/C++ 7.0

Postgraduate Manchester University, UK

• Teaching Pascal and Assembler (6809)

August 1987 to August 1988 IBM UK Labs, Hursley Park, UK

• Voluntary year out between 2nd and 3rd years of degree
• Writing diagnostic software in assembler for add-in PC videocards

Educational Details

1997 'A' level: French (B - evening classes)

1995 University of Manchester, UK

• Ph.D. Electronic and Electrical Engineering "Investigation into pit formation mechanism in ICI dye-polymer optical tape medium."

1989 University of Manchester, UK

• BEng(Hons) 1st class Electronic and Electrical Engineering

1985 'A' levels: Chemistry (A), Maths (B), Physics (B)

8 'O' levels: 6 grade A, 2 grade B

2 'AO' levels: English (B), Maths (B)

Other Skills

Computer Languages

• C/C++ (25 years), Qt, Tcl, assembler.

Operating Systems

• Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and macOS.

Applications

• Mathematica, MS Office, OpenOffice.

Fluent French

Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (formerly the IEE, Institute of Electrical Engineers.

Hobbies and Pastimes.

Cycling

Reading