Speaker: Mr. Arlo J. Aude - Texas Instruments

Speaker's Title: High Speed Signal Conditioning Product Line Technologist

Seminar Title: Follow your passion, to find and build a fulfilling career

Abstract:
Arlo will share his experiences and advice for building a fulfilling career starting with his first real job up to his current position where he is a group Technologist leading an advanced development team within the High Speed Signal Conditioning business unit at Texas Instruments in Atlanta. His career path has included many roles in-between, such as being a Test Engineer, Analog Mixed Signal Designer, Design Manager and helping to build a new product line from zero to a hundred million dollar per year business at TI. Arlo will tell his story, giving some insight to where his passion for being an electrical engineer came from, and sharing some of the lessons that he has learned the hard way, with the hopes that these shared experiences will benefit students who are embarking on the next step of their career.

Speaker Bio:
Arlo Aude is currently Technologist for the High Speed Signal Conditioning (HSSC) group, which is part of the High Speed Data and Clocks business unit in the Analog Signal Chain division of Texas Instruments. From 2007 to 2014, Arlo served as the Analog Design Manager for HSSC, which was founded in part by the work of his design team. Prior to that, Arlo spent eight years as the sole analog design engineer for the Atlanta Design Center in Norcross, designing High Speed ADCs, Ethernet Analog Front Ends and Digital Video Retimers, honing his skills as an Analog Designer.

Arlo earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) along with minors in Industrial and Social Psychology in 1995 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an Eagle Scout, and an alumnus of Psi Upsilon Fraternity.

Arlo’s career started in 1996 at Harris Semiconductor in Melbourne, FL. His first position, just out of school, was in the Data Converter group, as a Test Engineer, soon moving in to Analog Design. In 1999, he moved to National Semiconductor in Atlanta, to take a position as an analog circuit designer. National was later acquired by TI in 2011. In 2015, Arlo was elected to the TI Technical Ladder at the level of Senior Member of Technical Staff. He is the inventor or co-inventor of over 35 patents in many disciplines and author of over 12 journal and industry papers.

Outside of work, Arlo is a busy parent, hiking and backpacking with his wife and toddler age son.