Brion, a Sr. Architect at Cadence, has been working in the technology industry for more than 45 years. He spent 23+ years at IBM, 15+ (so far) at Cadence with stints at Global Foundries, Marvel and Lockheed Martin. He obtained a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University and a Masters in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He is an inventor on 19 patents all in DFT, fault modeling and related areas.