From: bhingard@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Siddharth Bhingarde)
Subject: Looking for a position in VLSI CAD area.
Keywords: VLSI, MCM, FPGAs, CAD, Unix/C guru
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:00:42 GMT


Dear Prospective Employers:

I am looking for a job in the area of VLSI CAD. Enclosed find my resume
for your perusal. 


TO THE EMPLOYERS IN CALIFORNIA:

I am planning on attending ICCAD92 at Santa Clara during November 8-12, 1992. 
If you have a suitable position and if you are interested in interviewing me 
I shall be available during the ICCAD week. I shall appreciate if you send me 
an email to schedule an interview.

Sincerely,

-Siddharth

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                               Siddharth Bhingarde
              1940, Howard Street, Apt. \# 492, Kalamazoo, MI 49008.
                 Phone home: (616)-387-7418, work: (616)-387-5645 
                          email: bhingard@cs.wmich.edu
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CAREER OBJECTIVE:

     To work in a research and development environment in place and route area.
     In particular, to develop new partitioning, placement and  routing 
     algorithms for standard cells, FPGAs and MCMs.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

  o  M.S. (Computer Science), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 1992,
     GPA 4.0/4.0.
     - Area of Concentration: Design and analysis of algorithms for VLSI place 
       & route.
     - Topic of Thesis: Optimal cell design and over-the-cell routing for 
       standard cell designs.

  o  B.Sc. (Computer Technology; Hardware and Software), Watumull Institute, 
     University of Bombay, India, 1989, First Class with Distinction. 

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE:

  o  VLSI Design Automation Tools and Languages: MAGIC, HED, L-Edit, Spice, 
     VHDL.

  o  Languages and Software: C++, C, C  and Bourne Shell, X-Windows, X-View, 
     SunView, Interface Builder and Various other Utilities on NeXT, TCP/IP, 
     Pascal, sed, awk, yacc.

  o  Machines & Operating Systems: SUN/UNIX, NeXT/MACH, VAX/(VMS, ULTRIX), 
     PDP11- 44/RMX 11-M+, IBM PC-AT Compatible/(XENIX, MS-DOS).

EMPLOYMENT:

  o  May. 1992 - present: Development Engineer, Cascade Software Technology 
     International, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI.  Responsible for:
     - developing hierarchical layout design methodology in an interactive and 
       flexible VLSI layout design system, on SUN/UNIX using C/X-View.
     - developing advance graphics interfaces for database systems, on SUN/UNIX 
       using C/X-View.

  o  Sept. 1991 - Apr. 1992: Research Assistant, VLSI research lab, Department 
     of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
     - research on new algorithms for VLSI design automation.
     - research on optimal cell designs for over-the-cell routing. 
     - developed an integrated three-layer global, channel and over-the-cell 
       routing system called OSCAR, for standard cell designs, on SUN/UNIX 
       using C/X-View.
     - implemented an algorithm for pin assignment.

  o  Jan. 1991 - Aug. 1991: Systems Analyst (part time), Faculty Resource Lab., 
     Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
     - developed an interactive tape backup utility on VAX/VMS using DCL and 
       pascal.
     - provided consultancy to the faculty of WMU in their computer related 
       projects.

  o  Jan. 1989 - June 1990: Engineer, Research and Development Department,
     Press Trust of India, Bombay, India.
     - developed an Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS) (6 months)
     - developed an editor's workstation (6 months) 
     - developed the operators interface for AMSS (4 months)
     - developed the standby system to AMSS (2 months)
     - all the above projects are developed in XENIX/C environment.

PUBLICATIONS:

  -  "On Optimum Cell Models for Over-the-cell Routing", to appear in the 
     Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on VLSI Design}, 1993,
     Bombay, India.  (co-authors: A. Panyam and N. Sherwani)
  -  "Middle Terminal Cell Model for Efficient Over-the-cell Routing", 
     available as Tech.  Report, No. 92-24, Department of Computer Science, 
     Western Michigan University.  submitted.  
     (co-authors: A. Panyam and N. Sherwani)
  -  "Finding Maximum Split Subgraph in a Graph", available as Tech. Report, 
     No. 90-23, Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan University.
     (co-authors: M. Hossain and N. Sherwani)
  -  "OSCAR: A Novel Over-the-cell Router for New Cell Model", submitted.
     (co-author: N. Sherwani)
  -  "3D Hierarchical Multichip Module Router", under preparation. 
     (co-author: N. Sherwani)
  -  "Over-the-cell Routing", research book, under preparation. 
     (co-author: N. Sherwani)

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:

  -  On the Honor Role of C.S. Dept., Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
     MI, 1991.
  -  Watumull Foundation Scholarship, 1990.
  -  R. D. Sethna's Scholarship, 1990.
  -  Kulapati's Award for Academic Excelence, 1986.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

  -  Student Member, Association of Computer Machinery (ACM).
  -  Student Member, ACM Special Interest Group in Design Automation (SIGDA).
  -  Student Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the Computer Science  Honor Society.

REFERENCES:
    Available upon request.