Kurt Takara is a Senior Product Engineer for Questa CDC+RDC at Siemens EDA, and has over 20 years of experience in engineering design and verification, technical marketing and engineering services. Takara has held engineering, marketing, consulting services and project management roles in electronics and EDA companies such as 0-In Design Automation, Synopsys, Ikos Systems, Raytheon and Magnavox. He holds a BSEE from Purdue University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.