Resume

• 2009

  Sloop \"Arioso\"

  Sandhill Haskap Growers

  Manager

  s/v Arioso

  Arioso is my ocean-going sloop

  where I spend about half of my retirement. The other half is at my old farm on Amherst Island

  near Kingston

  Ontario

  Canada

  Capt'n

  Sloop \"Arioso\"

• 2005

  Sandhill Haskap Growers

  Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Univ. of Saskatchewan

  ViSens Energy Inc.

  OptaNetworks

  Saskatoon

  Saskatchewan

  Canada

  Taught grad and undergrad courses; research in a variety of areas (Boolean functions

  VLSI

  switch architectures); and supervised grad students.

  Professor

  Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Univ. of Saskatchewan

  ViSens is a biotechnology startup

  making ethanol from wheat straw. See visens.com.

  ViSens Energy Inc.

  OptaNetworks

  Montreal

  Optanetworks is a technology startup

  developing a packet switching architecture for core flow switching and for storage system short term flow switching. Patrice Plante founded the company. Patrice and I are now working together to develop our technology

  which we intend to prototype and sell as a technology.

  Co-Director

• 1998

  PMC-Sierra

  Inc.

  Principal Architect of a series of switching chips

  for SONET (STS-1

  VT

  and DS0)

  sRIO

  and Fibre Channel.

  PMC-Sierra

  Inc.

• 1985

  McCrosky

  Dept. of Computational Science; Univ. of Saskatchewan

  Saskatoon

  Saskatchewan

  Canada

  Taught grad and undergrad courses; research in a variety of areas (languages

  Boolean functions

  VLSI

  image compression

  switch architectures); and supervised grad students.

  Professor

  Dept. of Computational Science; Univ. of Saskatchewan

  Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

• 1981

  PhD

  Electrical Engineering

• 1973

  MSc

  Computer Science

• 1965

  BA

  Government

• SoC

  System Architecture

  Algorithms

  Semiconductors

  IC

  Debugging

  ASIC

  Simulations

  Firmware

  Hardware Architecture

  Verilog

  Wireless

  Compilers

  C

  Analog

  Embedded Software

  Ethernet

  Integrated Circuit Design

  VLSI

  FPGA

  Many of my pubs are listed on my U Saskatchewan EE web page.

  McCrosky