Siegfried Hart

Work hands-on with hi-tech clients, enabling them to systematically scope, plan and execute accelerated projects that deliver the right products at the right time. Vasona is a Silicon-Valley based consulting firm with focus on accelerating hi-tech product development, portfolio management and project execution (www.vasona.us).

Drove development of Avogy’s next generation power products including HW, SW & IC design, w/ focus on improving how new product development projects are scoped, structured, planned & executed. • Developed world's smallest 70W multi-port laptop charger ("Zolt") • Led development of Avogy's GaN power-transistor process technology • Drove San Jose fab-expansion from kick-off to device processing in <7 months

Headed up Altera's global PMO, drove development of Altera’s complex next generation programmable products, covering R&D budget of >$350 Million/year.

Responsible for significantly upgrading planning and execution of a portfolio of 25+ leading-edge process technology projects, as well as leading in-house infrastructure projects such as SVTC’s Solar fab construction and start up. SVTC was a divisional spin-off from Cypress Semiconductor.

As part of GF’s Corporate BPM Group, planned and executed business process improvement initiatives while migrating solid project management practices into technology development and infrastructure teams.

Responsible for definition, design and introduction of new DSL products consisting of multiple integrated devices & SoC, firmware/software and board-level HW, with R&D budget >$6 Million/year. Coordinated cross-functional teams of >80 engineers and several development partners across US, Europe and Asia.

Responsible for driving cross-functional teams in US and Europe to develop GPS and wireless LAN chip sets, firmware and software for integration into consumer products and cellular handsets.

Responsible for the development of a family of 802.11 transceiver and base-band chip sets which set the foundation for subsequent RF Micro Devices wireless LAN products. Resonext Communications was acquired by RF Micro Devices in 2002.

Responsible for design and technical project management of integrated circuits for wire-line communication and computer storage solutions. Introduced Infineon’s first E3/T3 device after <12 months development, which created the foundation for a family of successful SoC products. Joined Santa Cruz development team to design Infineon’s first R/W-Channel SoC devices, which set the groundwork for Infineon’s hard disk business, which was successfully sold to LSI in 2008.

Developed ultra-low-noise integrated circuits for the “Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider" particle accelerator located at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York.

Thesis: “Design of a CMOS multi-channel charge-sensitive preamplifier/shaper chip for silicon drift detectors”, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

Thesis: “Development of CMOS-integrated, current-controlled oscillators for use in automotive micro-controllers”, ST Microelectronics, Grafing, Germany