Manager, CMOS2 Process Engineering and Yield Engineering, Silicon Technology Department
Texas Instruments
(profile at the time of induction in 2004)
Judy Shaw leads Texas Instruments' Silicon Technology Development (SiTD) 90-Nanometer and 45-Namometer Process Engineering teams, both of which are focused on the timely delivery of new, cost-effective silicon process technology. She is the first female leader to work at this high level in SiTD. The processes delivered by her team this year will be used to support more than 20 percent of TI's total revenue. This capability is a key enabler of TI's continued competitive strength in Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
Ms. Shaw began her career at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1978 as a Process Development Engineer in Lubbock, Texas. She worked for several years as a process engineer, owning the plasma etch and deposition processes. In the late 1980s, she was the LMOS Etch/Thinfilms Module Manager, responsible for factory operations as well as equipment maintenance and process improvement.
Prior to being promoted to her current position, Ms. Shaw was the Process Engineering Manager of DMOS5, TI's first 200-mm wafer fabrication facility. In this role, from 1995 through 2000, she provided leadership for process implementation and improvement while the factory transformed from a cleanroom under construction to TI's largest fabrication facility, producing 42,000 200-mm silicon wafers per year. Improvements made by her team during this period drove TI's profit from operations to over $1B. She is the only woman at TI, to date, to lead a Process Engineering group during the critical fab startup period.
Ms. Shaw has promoted the roles of women and diversity throughout her leadership career. She co-founded the SiTD Women's Network in 2002. She is a member of the SiTD Business Diversity Team and represented SiTD on the TI corporate Diversity Leadership Conference Planning Team. She mentors women and diverse individuals, both within SiTD and in the Dallas technology community. She graduated from Harding College with honors in Chemistry. She has also studied engineering and business at the graduate level at Texas Tech University.
