Director, Advanced Process Module Development
External Development and Manufacturing, Texas Instruments
(profile updated in 2008)
As Director, Advanced Process Module Development of TI's newly-formed External Development and Manufacturing organization, Judy Shaw is responsible for implementing TI's new strategy to develop CMOS manufacturing processes through partnerships with silicon foundries and other external suppliers. Since 2007, Judy has led the team responsible for the new methodology as it applies to unit process development. This change is sweeping in its impact to work culture, business, and technical practices. The central goal of Judy's team is to continue TI's leadership technology momentum in chip cost, scaling, and device performance. Building on the foundation of their experience with highly successful internal development, Judy and her team have forged new partnerships and developed innovative methods of supplier management to achieve this goal.
In her prior role as manager of TI's 90-nanometer and 45-namometer process engineering teams, Judy was the first female leader to work at this high level. The processes delivered by her team each year are 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).
Judy excelled in a manufacturing environment as 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 $1 billion. She is the only woman at TI, to date, to lead a process engineering group during the critical fab startup period.
Judy has promoted the roles of women and diversity, and the importance of education, throughout her leadership career. She is a co-Founder of the Women of TI Fund, a unique, donor-advised fund that promotes opportunities for high-school girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education. She is also an Appointee since 2004, and 2006 Chair, of the Texas Workforce Development Grant Advisory Committee. Working on this board, Judy promotes programs at Texas universities that increase STEM enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. Judy is a Board Director and the Treasurer of Real Options for Women, a Pregnancy Resource Center in Plano, Texas.
