Ricardo Godinez

Product Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States17 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in DFT and Scan Architecture.
  • Proven track record in automating processes.
  • Strong leadership and coaching experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a DFT and VLSI engineering expert with extensive experience in consumer electronics.

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Skills

Core Skills

DftScan ArchitectureTest SolutionsAtpgConsumer Application IpVerificationMarketing AnalyticsData AnalysisMarketing AutomationCampaign ManagementData Management

Other Skills

ScaniJtagTessentSpyglassFusion CompilertcshtclpythonhtmlScan compressionSEQ compressionStreaming FabricScan InsertionDRC checksAutomation scripts

About

• Senior DFT engineer with experience on Scan Architecture definition, Scan insertion and verification, ATPG pattern generation and verification, post silicon ATPG pattern debug on several consumer application projects. • Mechatronics engineering degree, System on Chip Design Specialty degree, Technical degree in SW Programming. • Architect, implement and validate DFT scan infrastructures with compression, along with the ATPG work for a consumer application for display and pixel control. • Collaborating on several multiprotocol SerDes chip designs, maintaining and verifying the DFT blocks (jtag and scan), modeling the chip's analog blocks in verilog for digital sims and regressions, automating functional verification scripts and reports at NXP Semiconductors. • Software Development and coding skills in several languages, experience on linux development environments. • Scripting on TCL, bash, tcsh and python. • Embedded experience using PICs, Kinetis FRDM boards, Arduino, etc. • More than 4 years of experience working on several roles such as HTML and JS developer, postgresql database architect, Eloqua Campaign Canvas configuration, Reporting & Analysis. • Advanced Excel and Macros knowledge and experience. • Excelled in problem solving and process automation. • Experience with data mining, data transformation and analysis for reporting. • Experience leading teams and coaching personnel. [Soft Skills: Coaching, Cross Regional Communication, Self-Learning, Adaptable, Creative]

Experience

17 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 5 mos
Current Experience

Meta

2 roles

DFT Engineer

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · On-site

  • Architect and implement testability circuits and patterns for Meta's custom chips IPs.
  • Working with DFT IPs such as MBist, Scan, and iJtag
  • Supporting EDA tool flows in Tessent, Spyglass, Fusion Compiler, etc.
  • Support team efficiency and collaboration by automating processes and assisting with KPI dashboard creation by coding solutions in tcsh, tcl, python, html, etc.
DFTScaniJtagTessentSpyglassFusion Compiler+5

DFT Engineer

Mar 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · On-site

  • Architect and implement testability circuits and patterns for Meta's custom chips IPs.
  • Develop the ATPG methodolody flow from scratch usingSynopsys TesMAX tools using tcl scripting. This Methodologycreated a leaner and robust way of performing DRC checks on the Fusion Compiler synthesized netlist, and generate patterns for all the different Scan configurations of the ULTRA Compression IP from Synopsys.
  • Was in charge of the Spyglass methodology, I maintained the run automation scripts and rulesets. Assisted RTL designers with debug and automated regression configurations.
  • Innovated the way the DFT team reported metrics ad status. Created a script that published all the IPs DFT insertion run status on a custom Interactive Google Sheet.
ATPGSpyglassTCLScan InsertionDRC checksAutomation scripts+1

Synopsys inc

DFT Solutions Engineer

Dec 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Austin, Texas, United States · On-site

  • Provided support on Synopsys Test solutions and software to various Synopsys' customers such as Samsung, Ericsson, NXP, among others.
  • Help customer's implement Synopsys new flagship Scan compression solution, SEQ compression and Streaming Fabric by:
  • Providing tool and IP training
  • Help debug tool crashes and tool unexpected behavior and help triage these issues with Synopsys
  • R&D
  • Help with coverage improvement analysis
  • Pattern simulation mismatch debug.
  • Help customers find solutions to bugs and enhancements for DFT synthesis solutions in fusion
  • compiler.
  • Provide support on general questions for TestMAX Advisor (spyglass dft) Tool.
DFTScan compressionSEQ compressionStreaming FabricSpyglassFusion Compiler+1

Firstpass global, inc

Senior DFT VLSI Engineer

Mar 2019Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Guadalajara Area, Mexico

  • Architected the Scan Compression structures and created, and verified ATPG patterns for stuck and transition faults on a consumer application IP.
  • Working on several projects for Advanced Micro Devices by running the DFT flow:
  • Scan Insertion/Stitching
  • Test Compression
  • ATPG pattern creation and verification
  • Post silicon ATPG patterns debug
Scan CompressionATPGDFT flowTest CompressionDFTConsumer Application IP

Wipro limited

VLSI Engineer

Nov 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Guadalajara Area, Mexico

  • Maintain and verify the DFT blocks on the design. (jtag, bsdl, AC/DC scan)
  • Run tests and simulations to verify the functionality of RTL designs on SerDes design projects.
  • Create verilog models based on analog blocks by reading the schematic and creating a behavioral version for digital simulations.
  • Automation and scripting of simulation and reporting tasks in TCL, tcsh bash, etc.
DFTRTL designsVerilogTCLtcshbash+1

Nxp semiconductors

Senior Marketing Analyst

Mar 2017Nov 2017 · 8 mos · Mexico

  • Provide meaningfull insighsts on Corporate Marketing KPIs
  • Web Traffic analytics using Adobe Analytics.
  • Campaign Performance reporting using Eloqua and Adobe Analytics
  • Marketing Funnel performance on Eloqua, Adobe Analytics & Salesforce
  • Build a Data Warehouse architecture using python's data science libraries to interact with marketing sysems' APIs and then inserting the data on a Linux Postgresql server in order to have a set of Marketing BI dashboards using Tableau server.
  • Automate several marketing operational processes to improve my team's efficiency.
Web Traffic analyticsEloquaData Warehouse architecturePythonPostgresqlMarketing Analytics+1

Hewlett packard enterprise

Marketing Campaign Automation in Eloqua

Jun 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Toluquilla

  • Responsibilities:
  • Setup, configure and maintain the Eloqua Email Marketing Campaigns. (The configuration involves creating a campaign flow diagram in the Eloqua canvas and creating the assets using html, javascript and css)
  • Extract and transform data for campaign performance reporting.
  • Coordinate with the worldwide marketing teams to achieve operational excellence.
  • Create business reports using the various tools to mine, extract and transform data for management to be able to report on the business metrics.
  • Achievements:
  • Assisted the Business Process Improvement Team with developing an internal web tool to improve the control of employee resources on the Marketing Business Services department using ASP.NET.
  • Automated operational task of my team members using macros and scripts to improve efficiency. (At least 3 different business processes positively impacted by the automation tools)
  • Become the one of the main points of contact for Eloqua reporting and data analysis.
EloquaHTMLJavaScriptCSSMarketing AutomationCampaign Management

Freescale semiconductor

Eloqua Contact/Data Admin

Feb 2012Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Mexico

  • Responsibilities: Part of the Marketing Automation Team, I was in charge of Administering the marketing contact data incoming from various marketing sources and upload them into the Marketing Automation System (Eloqua).
  • Achievements:
  • Created software tools to improve the speed and accuracy on the process, interacting with Excel, Visual Basic, Eloqua, Siebel, Teradata, Tableau, HTML and PHP, since the process of cleaning the incoming contact data was fairly manual. My tool helped improve the speed of the process around 500% and significantly improve the quality and normalization of the data entering the system.
  • Automated Eloqua and Siebel data mining and conversion into dashboards for monthly scorecards by connecting several data sources.
  • Worked as a Team Lead, providing training, workload balancing, and leadership support to a group of 3 Data Administrators in Q3-Q4 term in 2013.
  • Proactively created and implemented several automation tools to help improve the efficiency on operational tasks of my team.
EloquaData cleaningVisual BasicTableauData ManagementMarketing Automation

Coca-cola arca-continental (la favorita)

Jefe de Linea de Manetenimiento

Mar 2011Nov 2011 · 8 mos

  • Responsibilities: Supervise and lead a group of mechanics to observe the status and requirements of a production line. Take care of Preventive Maintenance, Reparations and Modifications on the line´s machinery.
  • Supervise the line when producing during maintenance shift, observing machinery´s and staff performance by checking on good practices and operational procedures to achieve the required level of quality, production rate and avoiding losses by making good use of the company´s resources.

Teleperformance mexico

2 roles

Opearations Coach

Promoted

Oct 2008Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Responsibilities: Lead a team of Tech Support agents to achieve quality and operational metrics being the tier one support for Comcast Video Services. I acquired experience and training on leadership skills, employee management, payroll process, operational metrics, statistical trends, action plans and quality processes.
  • Achievements:
  • Led my team of Tech support agents to achieve Excellent Quality scores during the Video DTA migration Project, being the top call quality team on the campaign for 2 quarters.
  • Proactively planned and executed a quality and sales improvement action plan with other team members that helped increase the performance on the Comcast Video Tech Support Campaign Metrics.

Tech Support Representative/Customer Serrvice

Apr 2008Oct 2008 · 6 mos

  • Responsibilities: Customer Service Representative in 3 different campaigns. Acquired mortgage CS, credit card CS and Video Tech support skills.
  • Achievements:
  • Got promoted to coach in just 6 months by showing leadership aptitudes and Customer Service Skills.

Education

ITESO

System on Chip Design Specialist — System on chip

Jan 2015Jan 2016

Universidad del Valle de Atemajac

Bachelor's degree

Jan 2004Jan 2013

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