Jim Wages

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About Jim Wages

SUMMARY PCB layout designer with over 24 years experience laying out high speed, high density, mixed technology, digital and analog printed circuit boards. • Expert user of the Cadence Allegro V16.6 Proficient at utilizing the Allegro Constraints manager tool to accommodate advanced net timing and signal integrity rules.o Typically implement all design rules into one or all of the Allegro, Concept, or Specctra database.o Extensive experience in footprint library creation and documentation utilizing best yield techniques. Accustomed to incorporating package to package, testability, and high yield solderability parameters into footprint libraries. o Large range of circuit technology experience including, but not limited to; High and low end blade servers and supuport cards, utilizing DDR4, Ethernet, PCIe, type circuitry. Backplane, controller, optical, Sonet, and Memory boards, Power supplies Test fixtures and IC fanout boards Experienced and comfortable with laying out designs with up to 32 layers with creative power, ground, and ZBC core stack-ups.• Experience using the Specctra shape based auto-router.• Experience in utilizing the Concept HDL, and Orcad schematic editors and symbol creation tools.• • Accustomed to designing PCB's with a high awareness of “Design for Manufacturing, Assembly, and Test” requirements.• Accustomed to leading, teaching and delegating efforts to junior layout personnelSpecialties: cad, cadence, computer hardware, concept development, customer relations, design software, documentation, layout design, logic, manufacturing, microsoft windows nt, networking, presentation skills, proposal writing, purchasing, routers, schematic diagrams, solaris, sun sparcstation, sunos, telecommunications, training programs, typing, web site production,