David Hudson

David Hudson began his career with Honeywell Solid State Electronics in Colorado Springs, an IC wafer fabrication facility which was subsequently purchased by Atmel in 1989. During his 25 years with the organization, he worked as a Product Engineer and Technical Program Manager on commercial and military products serving as the liaison between the company and end-customer(s) throughout the design, fabrication, test, qualification and production phases. This role required regular and detailed involvement with each of the internal engineering departments, as well as onshore and offshore subcontractors, providing Mr. Hudson with a high-level detailed understanding of IC manufacturing and operations. The numerous types of products he supported over the years were a wide variety of mixed-signal custom, digital ASIC gate-array, opto-electric, FPGA, and crypto memory devices.

Mr. Hudson then worked for Aspen Technologies, an IC assembly facility located in Colorado Springs, which was formed several years earlier as a spin-off from Atmel. He was a Business Development Manager were again, he served as the customer liaison for existing projects while actively seeking and securing new-growth opportunities. Aspen was subsequently purchased by Samtec, a company that specializes in connecter and cable assemblies Mr. Hudson became a Transfer Engineer where he focused on learning the intricacies of Samtec’s proprietary manufacturing information systems, eventually converting each and every Aspen product to reside and run on Samtec platforms.

Mr. Hudson received his BSME from Cal Poly SLO and holds an MBA from University of Colorado. Mr. Hudson also attended Colorado Technical University where he completed numerous electrical engineering classes in support of his emphasis in microelectronics.