In 1996 Bracken joined Ansoft as a Manager, Signal Integrity Product Development and later as an R&D fellow. ansoft was acquired by ANSYS where he remains an R&D fellow.
Bracken founded Performance Signal Integrity, Inc. in 1992 and was their manager for PCB SI products.
Bracken holds a B.S., Electrical Engineering, an M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
