Rick Koster

EE Low Power Specialist at Siemens EDA

Allen, Texas, United States

About

Experience

  • Siemens EDA (Siemens Digital Industries Software) (Full-time · 30 yrs 4 mos)
    • Low Power Specialist
      Nov 2013 - Present · 12 yrs 8 mos

      As part of Sales I help ASIC and SOC designers use UPF for the design and verification of designs with power management.

    • applications engineer
      Mar 1996 - Nov 2013 · 17 yrs 9 mos

      Technical arm of Simulation, Emulation and Verification. This job started at Ikos Systems. Continued at Mentor Graphics after their acquisition of Ikos Systems. Mentor Graphics is now part of Siemens EDA

  • Democratic Candidate for County Commissioner Collin County Pct 2 at Rick Koster for County Commissioner
    Jan 2010 - Nov 2010 · 11 mos

    In 2010 I ran for County Commissioner in Collin County. The County's Commissioner's Court is the executive body for the county in charge of funding the criminal justice system of the county. The Commissioner's Court also is in charge of road projects in the county.

  • Democratic Candidate for Texas State House District 70 at Democratic Party
    Jan 2006 - Nov 2006 · 11 mos

    Democratic Candidate for Texas State House District 70

  • Telecommunications Specialist at United States Department of Defense
    Jan 1995 - Dec 1995 · 1 yr

    U.S. Department of Defense, 106th Signal Brigade, U.S. Army, Republic of Panama. Telecommunications Specialist in the Technical Director's Plans/Treaty implementation Section.  Assisted in the coordination of transfer of telecommunication infrastructure of the U.S. Army to the Government of the Republic of Panama(GOP). Included in this was the transfer of Ft. Davis and Ft. Espinar and general interface to the GOP‟s telephone monopoly INTEL.  Assisted in the development of the 1998-2003 budget and the 2000-2015 budget estimates for the 106th Signal Brigade.  Assisted in the creation of the FY96 and FY97 projects plan  Coordinated the completion of the Geographic Information System for the telecommunication infrastructure of the Corozal Defense Site.  Created prototype of telecommunications project tracking database.  Developed planning and treaty implementation presentations for upper management and for delivery to the Government of Panama.  Assisted on the initial stages of microwave path profile studies for Pacific-Atlantic link.

  • Sr. Hardware Engineer at Bytex
    Oct 1993 - Sep 1994 · 1 yr

     Provided support for UNIX based CAE tools for ASIC development.  Developed 1.0 micron ASIC for status display of a Switch Ethernet product.  Assisted in the development of two 0.8 micron ASICs for Switch Ethernet product.  Development system simulation for Switch Ethernet product