# Peter Turrini > Programmer/ Engineer | People Management | Public Multinationals to Startups | Rural Developer, Beekeeper, Basketballer, Guitar Player, Hot Sauce Maker, Vinyl Collector Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/peterturrini The consummate Engineer, People Manager & Project Lead for organizations who require a trusted leader, Peter Turrini is a seasoned developer, CAD & operations expert with a track record of success. Blending practical & theoretical knowledge running highly efficient and optimized charters with innovation, motivation, creativity, and problem-solving prowess. Trusted by senior leadership to own critical software development & operations, driving impact to the bottom line. Recognized for leading high-performance cross-functional teams across time zones with mentorship & personal development that enables a culture of learning. Refining operational methodologies & systems, and developing supporting software, Peter’s work ultimately enables customers to design in a semiconductor technology for ubiquitous applications such as automotive to cell phones and computers. Versed in project management with clear deliverables while balancing competing and dynamic priorities, Peter has a knack for running highly efficient and optimized work for startups to global multinationals. **** My experience in quality assurance stems back to my work at a startup company, DSM Technologies, where I both tested our software and the process design kit libraries we delivered. After being acquired by Cadence Design System I landed in a software validation position testing the EDA industry standard database, Open Access, where I released new versions both internally and externally to the SI2 Coalition. Development responsibilities included improving tests, CM release automation software and our webpage build monitoring system. Next move was to Globalfoundries where I help grow the PDK DRC QA Team into a sizable, productive and flexible team. We also built up a QA software infrastructure. Then I transitioned into managing Globalfoundries Infrastructure team which both Releases PDK's and develops automation software. TECHNICAL TOOLS Operating Systems; UNIX, Linux, Windows, AIX Programming: Python, Perl, TCL, PHP, SQL, Microsoft tools, UNIX CSH, C++, Perforce EDA: Cadence, Assura, Diva, Dracula, Verilog, Mentor & Synopsys classes Databases: SQL, Open Access (EDA industry standard), Salesforce, Oracle Send PistolPTur@gmail.com a message. ## Work Experience ### Staff Engfineer @ Qualcomm Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Diego, California, United States Provide direct real-time support for North America EDA/CAD issues, specifically for all digital front end flow tools. Help roll out the major company wide regression software; interface with the India team constantly via evening meetings on feature development and meet targets in QA regression verification. Document common support issues into a FAQ for users to expand self-sufficient debug and troubleshooting skills; own and execute on key independent tasks towards program requirements within timeline and constraints. Research internal & external resources (e.g. manuals, Confluence database), engage and align with various interdisciplinary teams to ultimately provide solutions to a diverse user base. ### Lead Software Developer @ Broadcom Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States Developed a QA infrastructure (Regression program) that tests PDK development activities, successfully used by six developers; shares daily QA results in a dashboard. Works closely with PDK developers to ensure a smooth transition from their current flows (manual with a few scripts), to a program that runs their test cases and reports pass/ fail results onto a web page. Developed a backend program in Python from scratch, functional for DRC, Place and Route, Extraction, and LVS. ### Senior Member of Technical Staff, Manager of PDK Infrastructure Group @ Global Foundries Jan 2009 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara County, California, United States - Manages 9 engineers globally (Germany, India, Bulgaria), regarding software development & maintenance, releases, and licenses; represents the PDK group for all Salesforce and Admin issues. - Helped architect the cloud, enabling design development internally as well as offering the capability to customers. - Champions resource management: determines competing priorities to balance processes and deliveries accordingly. - Governs millions of dollars in EDA Tool & Licensing, including installation, user support, usage reports, and contract reviews. Established License Usage Policies to drive tool cost efficiency. - Supports niche negotiations & procurement by pulling relevant data and reviewing prior and existing contracts. - Releases PDK (Process Design Kits) design tools for both external customer access and internal CAD projects. - Runs special projects in-house: a device database web app (DeBice), PDK release software (PAS), DM DRC rule database & associated apps (Datamart, DRC Worklist, DM Differ), QA Regression software (BAT), and more. - Drives CAD support for the entire company's internal IC Design Development. - Streamlines the overall release flow, improving automation & methodology efficacy: moved activity for the PDK release qualification onto a single server farm, and auto-generated release notes, reducing engineer work by 20%. - Drive a Post-Mortem Process to dig deep into bug issues to identify the root cause and prevent reoccurrence. ### SMTS – Manager of PDK DRC QA Group @ Global Foundries Jan 2009 – Jan 2023 - Given a broad charter managing QA for DRC – the most critical PDK component (formal qualification for new & existing semiconductor technologies) – for various technologies (CMOS, FinFet, FDSOI, etc.). Grew org from 1 to a productive and flexible team of 25+ engineers globally (NA, Singapore, Dresden, Bulgaria). - Authored BAT, a fully automated QA regression software (Python) from scratch that built and carried out test cases, and generated critical progress statistics on project progress. Used extensive multiprocessing, running tests for thousands of test cases from a single push button on LSF servers, as well as a webpage monitoring the system. - Qualified DRC ruledecks, checking 1,000+ rules as per the Design Manual, successfully minimizing bugs and therefore cost & schedule disruption, as well as time to market. - Established methodology and policy for bug tracking systems (BugZilla, Salesforce). Drove synergy among QA engineers via standardized protocol allowing flexibility between technologies (creating tests and submitting updated cases into the Perforce repository, evaluating failures, making corrections, reporting). ### SMTS – Product Technology Organization, Open Access Group @ Cadence Design Systems Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 • Championed a real-time online build, test, & release monitoring system, critical to guarantee functionality. • Built and ran extensive test development & evaluations that qualified new versions of Open Access in preparation for monthly releases both internally and externally to the SI2 Coalition for public distribution. • Spearheaded multiple release streams using the Perforce revision control software. • Maintained and enhanced the internal test reporting website, run with Perl, PHP and SQL databases thus allowing visibility to the development team of real-time results. ### Sr. Technical Leader @ Cadence Design Systems Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 • DSMT was a small 11 employee company which developed GTE which is a Graphical DRC rundeck generator. DRC generators included, Assura, Diva, Dracula, Calibre, and Hercules. Along with software development DSMT developed and sold custome PDKs (Process Design Kits) for specific customers. DSMT also had CAD contractor contracts. • Developed QA Toolbox, a DRC batch tool which automatically parsed results into a table. The QA Toolbox supported Assura, Diva, Dracula, Calibre, and Hercules. Complete debug features were included. The QA Toolbox was used to QA both our GTE software and the PDKs we developed. • Developed DRC error cells for DRC QA for many PDKs. • Continuously tested, debugged, and QA’ed the GTE software and DRC rundecks. • Did onsite CAD/UNIX Admin support for contracted customers. ### CAD/Design Engineer – R&D Group @ DSM Technologies Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 | San Jose, CA ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in EECS University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/peter-turrini --- Source: https://flows.cv/peterturrini JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/peterturrini/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13