Introduction

Welcome to my Documentary Project page! For this project we included elements from English, Design, and Webaudio classes to create a profile on a person of our choice. In English class we prepared interview questions to ask our profile subjects and also wrote our magazine articles. Then in Design, we created a magazine template which we then pasted the magazine article we wrote in English into. Finally in Webaudio we created this website to show all of the work we have done for this project. For this project, I interviewed my father, David Jarmon who is the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development for Verisilicon

 

 

 

 

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   his unit our task was to create a magazine article on a topic we chose. In order to research our topics we interviewed three primary sources gaining a perspective into the topic. The process of interviewing professionals in the field in which I was researching was very eye opening. The ability to ask a professional a specific question and get an answer that would not be found on the internet was indispensable. This project was new for me because I had never created a magazine or project with all my own work. Usually in school, I would use images from Google and search for sources on the web. However, for this project I took all the pictures myself and got all my information through interviews which I conducted. Although creating all my own elements made the project much more challenging, I found it to be more rewarding as I am proud of my work because I created all the elements myself.

Throughout the process of creating my magazine article I learned that it is important to manage your time. In order to put the final magazine

"What happens here in Silicon Valley really changes the world." -David Jarmon

together the smaller pieces must be finished first. I learned that I couldn't put off smaller assignments because they were essential in finishing the project in a timely manner. I found this project to be very time consuming but very rewarding in the end.

 

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David Jarmon

David Jarmon

Rick Tewell

Rick Tewell

Ben Simnacher

Ben Simnacher
About David Jarmon
David Jarmon is the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Verisilicon Incorporated. Jarmon has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor business. Jarmon’s role in previous businesses include Vice President at Cadence Design Systems, Managing Director of Japan Operations at Cooper and Chyan Technology, and Vice President of Global Sales at Silicon Perspective. Mr. Jarmon is part of conversations that include sales topics with customers from China, Japan, France, and Germany and constantly travels to meet with his customers.
About Rick Tewell
Rick Tewell has been a combination of a long time customer, co-worker, and friend of Mr. Jarmon for multiple years. “I am the Vice President at System solutions, so my role at the company Verisilicon which develops IP, which is Intellectual Property for companies who make semiconductors. Semiconductors are the chips that power things like mobile phones or all the electronics in your computer, electronics anywhere. Inside of a semiconductor you’re going to have multiple pieces of technology that do different things. So you’re going to have a technology block inside that can do audio, video, wifi, any of those sort of things. What Verisilicon does is they design and invent the IP that a chip company would use to manufacture a semiconductor product. My job is to see how all of those would work in a system standpoint so if you could imagine an engineer developing something for a car but he doesn’t know he’s building a car. They just describe an engine but he doesn’t know if it’s going in a boat, an airplane, or a car. A lot of times Semiconductor developers, develop without a knowledge of the entire system. A system might be a cell phone, it might be a navigation system in your car, it might be a laptop computer, it might be an electrical musical instrument, whatever it is there’s a system involved. My job is to ensure that the intellectual property, the technology that we develop, is applicable for the system that it’s going in. That we’re not designing something that someone can’t use because it doesn’t work properly in the system. So that’s my role within the company to oversee the technology aspects from a systems standpoint.” -Rick Tewell
About Ben Simnacher
Ben Simnacher currently works at Verisilicon providing the company with legal assistance, updating the language and contracts in response to customer’s questions or anything that they disagree with or want to put into the contract.