Dan started his career as a design engineer in the Advanced System Development group of National Cash Register (NCR), designing disk and tape drive controllers. He left there to work with Signetics (now NXP). He has worked as an applications engineer in the semiconductor sector ever since - nearly four decades. He has patents pertaining to FPGAs, electric field theory, and cryptography.
Dan is currently the Global Education Leader for Microchip’s Security Function Group, a 50+ strong tactical group of design engineers, around the world, dedicated to assisting clients in realizing robustly secure designs.
Dan has dedicated himself to the field of cryptography for the past two decades and is a recognized subject matter expert in cryptography. He lectures for graduate-level students at several prestigious universities, including annual lectures at engineering colleges of Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).