Doug Goodman, President and CEO

Mr. Goodman, Ridgetop’s founder, holds a BS in Electronic Engineering from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo , and has a Masters degree from the University of Portland . He has over 25 years of experience in low-noise instrumentation design, design-for-test (DFT) and fault simulation techniques, and design tool development at firms such as Tektronix and Honeywell.  Prior to Ridgetop, Doug served as VP of Engineering of Analogy, Inc. (electro-mechanical design simulation tools) until its IPO in 1996. Analogy was later acquired by Synopsys.  Afterwards, he co-founded Opmaxx, Inc., a design-for-test IP firm and later merged the firm with Credence Systems Corporation.

Doug also is a co-founder and Chairman of Environmental Metrology Corporation www.env-metrology.com , a Tucson-based firm that provides patented electro-chemical sensors for optimization of wafer rinsing and drying processes in semiconductor manufacturing plants.

Doug has served on the Patent Review Committee at Tektronix, Inc. www.tek.com while in the firms Laboratory Instrument Division, and has written over 20 Technical Papers, including those for conferences of the IEEE, NDIA and SAE.  While at Tektronix, Doug helped introduce high-speed, low-noise instrumentation, as well as related instrumentation buses, including the predecessor to the popular VXI bus platform.  He was part of the team that first developed DSP-based IF processing for spectrum analyzers.

In terms of industry organizations, Doug is Chairman Emeritus and co-founder of the Arizona Nanotechnology Cluster, www.aznano.org an organization of 240 members involved in leading-edge research and development in the state of Arizona .  He is a board member of the High Tech Advisory Council (HTAC) to the Tucson Regional Economic Opportunity organization (TREO).  He also has served on the Governing Board for the Society of Automotive Engineers, Oregon Chapter and sits on the Program Committee for the IEEE International Mixed Signal Test Workshop.  Doug has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Arizona in Tucson and was named an Entrepreneurial Fellow by the University of Arizona in 2003.