Tristan de Cande
Semiconductor Industry Marketing Manager
36 years old
Driving License
Dallas (75206) United States (Texas)
Employed
Open to opportunities
I want my career to be led by international challenges in innovative electronic companies. I'm excited by team play work in multicultural environments.
I am skilled in both Engineering and Marketing/Sales. My engineering degree in EE has given me an important logical and mathematical reasoning so that I have a good critical and analytical mind. And the Business specialized Master degree allowed me to have the overall strategic vision and the Business dimension necessary for the management of innovative projects.
I specialized in “Designing and Integrating Electronics Systems” during the last two years of my ESIEE Engineering course while I was in an academic exchange program in Madrid and then in Southampton. During these years abroad, I considerably improved my English and Spanish. I also increased my openness and my flexibility to multicultural environments that made me able to work efficiently in Cascoda (ASIC Design Engineer) and then Texas Instruments (Business Development Engineer).
Curiosity is the main feature my colleagues, friends and family use to describe me. I am constantly getting informed about technological, political, economic and environmental news, allowing to have strong interest in High-Tech projects and a passionate discussion about the Electronics Industry.
I am from the Parisian region where my three brothers (being the 2nd) and my parents still live.
I am skilled in both Engineering and Marketing/Sales. My engineering degree in EE has given me an important logical and mathematical reasoning so that I have a good critical and analytical mind. And the Business specialized Master degree allowed me to have the overall strategic vision and the Business dimension necessary for the management of innovative projects.
I specialized in “Designing and Integrating Electronics Systems” during the last two years of my ESIEE Engineering course while I was in an academic exchange program in Madrid and then in Southampton. During these years abroad, I considerably improved my English and Spanish. I also increased my openness and my flexibility to multicultural environments that made me able to work efficiently in Cascoda (ASIC Design Engineer) and then Texas Instruments (Business Development Engineer).
Curiosity is the main feature my colleagues, friends and family use to describe me. I am constantly getting informed about technological, political, economic and environmental news, allowing to have strong interest in High-Tech projects and a passionate discussion about the Electronics Industry.
I am from the Parisian region where my three brothers (being the 2nd) and my parents still live.
Digital Design Engineer
Cascoda Ltd
February 2011
to May 2011
Internship
Chilworth
United Kingdom
- During my final engineer internship, I took part in the design of a full custom-designed ASIC chip.
This project was dedicated to cooperate with other companies in a home automation project in which Cascoda provides the low-power radio chip.
The objectives were to design microprocessor peripherals in synthesisable RTL code and test them rigorously by using self-checking testbenches with independently developed stimulus.
Once these hardware coding objectives completed, I had to implement them into the whole system and then test them thoroughly by software.
Finally, the synthesis allowed me to verify the functionality, size (number of gates deduced from an 180nm cell library) and timing (16MHz) criteria from the design specifications. It made me sure the modules developed would be tiny enough to fit into the final device without any problem. - At first, I developped VHDL modules specifically designed for an 8051 chip such as a sleep timer, a watchdog timer and a MAC timer.
- Then, I implemented another serial transmission protocol to the chip, which happened to be an SPI interface.
- Meanwhile, I wrote the drivers for the modules and a precise technical documentation explaining how to use all the modules and how to use the tests I developed.
Detailed Description
- It was a great experience I had from many points of view:
- Innovative product:
It was interesting to know the context in which a new product appears and how a start-up evolves.
- Innovative product:
- Useful work:
It’s very gratifying to know my work was really affecting the project progress. I know which modules I’ve done, what they do, what their role in the chip was and how they interacted with the other modules of the chip. Furthermore, I've been said that these modules were used in the successful commercial version.
- Useful work:
- Multi-cultural team:
Of course we were all speaking English together, but it didn’t mean there wasn’t a melting pot. Brazil, Germany, France and China were also represented. This variety of cultures made the discussions and points of view really interesting. And I didn’t feel as if I were a foreigner at all.
- Multi-cultural team:
- Very good ambiance:
The managers installed a relaxed ambiance.
- Very good ambiance:
- Background knowledge:
I understood better how to found a company, the business background, the market, the patent
process and many other key knowledge about a start-up creation.
- Background knowledge:
- Constant support:
They were also very helpful all along the internship every time I needed it.
- Constant support:
- Improved skills:
- Autonomy
- International environnement
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Autonomy
Company Description
Cascoda is a start-up of only two English associates and 2 trainees near Southampton.
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