Curriculum Vitae of Bob Adamson
| 1965-1967 | Technical Assistant | Elliott Automation Glenrothes, Fife. |
| Various technical support activities in the design department of the newly-created MOS facility. | ||
| 1967-1980 | Senior Design Engineer | Hughes Microelectronics Weybridge, Surrey and Glenrothes, Fife. |
| Worked in a variety of departments including integrated circuit design, test and systems development. Sponsored through BSc in Physics at Heriot-Watt university. | ||
| 1980-1982 | CAD Manager | General Instrument Glenrothes, Fife. |
| Responsible for device modelling and integrated circuit simulation and layout software tools. | ||
| 1982-1988 | Design Manager | Marconi Electronic Devices Wembley and Lincoln. |
| Managed a multi-site integrated circuit development department of about 80 engineers. Applications areas included mil/avionics, telecom and semicustom in cmos and cmos/sos technologies. | ||
| 1988-1992 | Manager Microelectronics Design Centre |
Northern Telecom (Nortel) (STC pre-takeover) Footscray, Kent. |
| Managed the design centre and contributed to the development of telecom and wireless integrated circuits in cmos, bicmos and very high speed bipolar technologies. | ||
| 1992-1996 | Technical Director | Rood Technology Alton, Hampshire. |
| Responsible for the company's test development activities and for establishing an integrated circuit design capability. | ||
| 1996-1998 | Consultant | freelance. |
| Personal contributor to a number of complex proprietary integrated circuit developments. | ||
| 1998-2002 | Design Manager | Texas Instruments (Burr-Brown pre-takeover) Livingston, West Lothian. |
| Managed the Integrated Circuit design department, mainly analogue in bicmos and bcdmos | ||
| 2002-2008 | Design Manager and Principal Member of Technical Staff |
Institute for System Level Integration Livingston, West Lothian. |
| In a career change for a few years I was the technical focus for the Institute's wide range of EDA tools and techniques and contributed personally to development work such as integrated MEMS/CMOS devices. | ||
| 2008- | Retired from remunerative activities. | |
| Amongst others, spending my time gardening, fiddling around with techy things and generally enjoying life. | ||
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