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 non-
business 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
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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

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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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