Ms. Burns has over 25 years of experience in the chip design and the EDA industries in various roles of engineering, applications engineering, technical marketing and product management. She is currently the Product Manager in the Design and Verification Technology Division at Siemens EDA responsible for simulation with Questa and ModelSim. Prior to Siemens EDA, Ms. Burns has held engineering and marketing positions at CoWare, Cadence, Synopsys, Viewlogic, Computervision and Intel. She holds a BSCpE from Oregon State University.