Chris is a member of the DVT Product Management team, managing the Design Solutions product line, including the Questa Design Solutions product lines as well as the HDL Designer Series. Chris comes to Siemens from the user community, with decades of experience in IP and ASIC/SoC/FPGA R&D and management, with products deployed in consumer, military, compute and storage markets and at companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Honeywell, Seagate, Micron, NEC and LSI Logic. The author of 18 patents in areas such as hardware virtualization, security, processor architecture, synchronization schemes, and hardware prototyping, Chris received an MSEE from Stanford University in California and a BSEE from Rice University in Texas.