Steve Baumgartner

Steve Baumgartner received the B.S.E.E. from North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA, in 1988. In 1988, he joined IBM in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, and designed analog integrated circuits for fiber optic applications in bipolar, BiCMOS and SiGe technologies. From 2002 to 2004, he worked for JDS Uniphase designing mixed signal integrated circuits for various small form factor fiber optic products. In 2004, he returned to IBM to design high speed, low power multi-Gb/s I/O circuits for various processor interconnects.