My Career Resume

Professional Resume of WILLIAM N. JOHNSON EXPERIENCE

1998 – 1999 Intel Corporation Hudson, MA Vice-President, StrongARM and Bridges Division – direct report of Ron Smith Recruited by Intel senior management to lead the transition of the StrongARM and PCI bridges businesses acquired through litigation settlement Retained both customers and employees despite exceedingly disruptive change; profitably tripled the size of the business in 12 months Garnered internal support for StrongARM as strategic corporate initiative despite x86 entrenchment (now marketed as Intel’s X-scale architecture); convinced top executives to re-deploy valuable design resources to accelerate next-generation cores (PXA250/PXA210) and development tools Actively participated in corporate processes for setting strategic directions and driving into new market areas (smart handheld devices; settop boxes; I/O processors; etc.) Managed multiple organizations in 4 locations, including added responsibility for CEG’s Advanced Development Lab in Chandler Retired 8/99 after transition was successfully completed to pursue nonbusiness activities 1976 – 1998 Digital Equipment Corporation Hudson, MA Vice-President, Semiconductor Business Segments [1996-1998] Responsible for the P&L management of 5 semiconductor product lines totaling >$.5B in revenue Alpha microprocessors – market leadership in absolute performance StrongARM microprocessors – market leadership in power/performance PCI bridges – built 95+% market share 10/100Mb Ethernet adapters – market share leader for add-on adapter cards Digital proprietary products Led an organization of ~950 people including strategic marketing and marketing communications, product development, CAD technology development and product/test engineering

Resume of WILLIAM N. JOHNSON (cont.) Vice-President, Semiconductor Marketing and Sales [1995-1996] Responsible for the transformation of Digital’s semiconductor organization from a captive engineering/manufacturing cost center to a highly competitive merchant vendor business Assembled and led a brand-new sales and marketing organization that built a >$150M external business from scratch in <3 years Vice-President, Semiconductor Engineering Group [1991-1995] Responsible for all semiconductor product development and custom CAD technology development for Digital Created and drove Alpha for the corporation Created and drove StrongARM for the corporation Drove PCI across the corporation; industry’s first PCI peripherals for networking and bridging Developed leading edge multimedia and graphics accelerators Led a ~500-person group of architects, custom IC designers, compiler and graphics SW experts, and CAD tool developers Group Engineering Manager, Silicon Systems and Technology Group [1986-1991] Responsible for all peripheral chip development and semi-custom technology development (ASIC tools and libraries) Led development of first VAX System-on-a-Chip Manufacturing Manager, Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Group [1984-1986] Member of the management team that started up a new 6” 2μ CMOS wafer fab facility Responsible for capacity planning, production control, and CIM technology development Senior Engineering Manager, VLSI VAX Development [1979-1984] Led the definition and development of Digital’s first VLSI VAX product; responsible for delivery of the multi-chip microprocessor; the CPU module, and 400K bits of microcode Drove the early definition of Digital’s custom CAD tools and methods Principal Engineer, LSI Development Group [1976-1979] Project engineer/architect/logic designer of the LSI 11/23 microprocessor -- Digital’s first full-functionality PDP-11 CPU in silicon 1973 – 1976 Bell Telephone Laboratories Holmdel, NJ Member of Technical Staff Project engineer/architect/logic designer of the CPU and memory subsystem in a microprocessor-controlled PBX; first volume application of the Intel 8080 microprocessor in the Bell system 72 WARREN AVENUE • HARVARD, MA 01451 • PHONE (978) 456-9288

Resume of WILLIAM N. JOHNSON (cont.) EDUCATION

B.S. Electrical Engineering (with Distinction) - Cornell University National Merit Scholar Cornell National Scholar Tau Beta Pi M.S. Computer Engineering (with Highest Honors) – Stanford University M.B.A. (with High Honors) - Boston University Served on Electrical Engineering advisory boards for UC Berkeley, Cornell University, and University of Cincinnati; still active on Cornell’s board PATENTS/PUBLICATIONS U.S. Patent #4,982,360 – Memory subsystem architecture incorporating ROM/RAM/CAM

“A VLSI VAX Chip Set”, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, October, 1984. “A VLSI Superminicomputer CPU”, Proceedings of the 1984 IEEE Solid State Circuits Conference, February, 1984. “VLSI VAX Microcomputer”, Proceedings of the COMPCON ’84 Twenty-eighth IEEE Computer Society International Conference, February, 1984. “LSI Trio Calls the Tunes in Microcomputer’s CPU”, Electronics, July 17, 1980. “VLSI Impact on Microcomputer Design”, Proceedings of the 3rd Annual IEEE Symposium on Microcomputers: Systems, Software, Architecture, August, 1979. “LS!-11/23 Control Store Microarchitecture”, Proceedings of the Fall 1979 COMPCON Conference, September, 1979.

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