I am a technology guy and a people guy. In a past life, I was the Principal Engineer at V2Green, a technology company I co-founded in late 2006 and GridPoint acquired in late 2008. In what feels like ancient history, I earned a PhD at the University of Washington in Seattle, where my research focused on low-power VLSI systems for machine learning. I have not used Cadence in almost 5 years. That's a good thing.