JC has over 33 years of IC design and product delivery experience. His career has been centered here in the Lehigh Valley since his first job with AT&T Bell Laboratories. This role has followed and expanded as the silicon design business transitioned through spinoffs and acquisitions – including Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems, and LSI. JC first worked as a digital IC designer, design manager, and design center director. With this foundation, he moved into Design Methodology management. He currently leads a geographically distributed team that drives optimizations in the Intel design flow and design customization for critical high speed IP components that serve this mobile market segment. JC holds a BS in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and a MSEE from North Carolina State University.

The Lehigh Valley is home to the Xeon and Networking Engineering organization (XNE) and brings a legacy of wireline and wireless networking expertise to creating amazing products for today’s mobile networks. This presentation will give you a view of the history of that legacy: from AT&T Bell Labs through a rich family of spin-offs and finally to Intel today. The promise and application that fills our cellular-enabled lives will be reviewed – from 3G to 5G and beyond. Along the way we will discuss the backdrop of the incredible progression of silicon technologies and their challenges that make this journey possible