Theodore Omtzigt

Bio: Dr. Theodore Omtzigt is the CEO and Founder of Stillwater Supercomputing, Inc. With more than 18 years of experience in making product design teams more productive, he has a proven track record of delivering goal-oriented innovations. Innovation: At Intel, he created and managed the first Platform Performance Engineering group chartered with engineering design optimizations among CPU, chipset, and GPU programs. As part of this effort, he invented Intel's Observation Architecture, a patented integrated diagnostic processor for the Intel platform, and his team successfully delivered hardware and software components to the chipset and graphics product teams that were fully functional on first silicon. Quality: At NVIDIA, he developed two performance validation systems, one for chipsets, the other for GPUs, that completely automated the data generation, collection, and reporting of RTL quality and performance metrics for final chip sign-off. These systems replaced error prone and resource intensive processes that consumed several man years with autonomous processes that allowed performance validation to be run as part of the regular regression testing without manual intervention. Interdisciplinary: At 3dfx, Dr. Omtzigt managed a team that delivered a workload characterization system that allowed real-time capture of OpenGL workloads that could be replayed on the RTL for performance estimation. This system provided, for the first time, complete observability in the very complex system dynamic of interactive games. This capability influenced marketing collateral for developer relations and future product designs. Dr. Omtzigt has the rare ability to span multiple technologies and business processes to identify valuable business process improvement opportunities and possesses the technical depth and leadership that allows him to seize these opportunities.