Gordon Allan is a Questa Product Manager at Mentor Graphics. Gordon was one of the developers of Accellera UVM, and was responsible for Mentor's UVM/OVM Methodology Cookbooks published on the Verification Academy website and appreciated by over 40,000 engineers worldwide. Prior to joining the EDA industry in 2010 he gained over 18 years of SoC Design and Verification experience in lead engineer and senior consultant roles, working with many of the top semiconductor companies, fabless startups, system houses and EDA companies worldwide and giving him firsthand experience of customers’ challenges from spec to tapeout. Gordon is based in Silicon Valley.