Mr. O'Connor served as the Vice President of Engineering at CoinTerra. Mr. Jim has held management positions at Altior Inc (now Exar), SMSC (now Microchip), iVivity, Zagros Networks and Orologic (now Vitesse Semiconductor), Nortel Semiconductor and BroadBand Technologies. Jim has also held lead design positions at BroadBand Technologies, Star Technologies, General Electric and Teledyne. His experience includes SOC design and verification, Assertion-Based Verification, physical design, systems design, software and firmware in graphics, datacom, telecom and security.