Ms. Burns has over 30 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 Director of Marketing for the Digital Design and Implementation Solutions Division at Mentor, a Siemens Business responsible for low-power RTL solutions with PowerPro and HLS Solutions with Catapult. Before Mentor, Ms. Burns held engineering and marketing positions at CoWare, Cadence, Synopsys, Viewlogic, Computervision, and Intel. She holds a BSCpE from Oregon State University.