Bill Rea

Bill Rea is an experienced engineering professional with a strong background in field applications and design engineering. As a Staff Field Applications Engineer at Lattice Semiconductor since August 1997, Bill provides essential pre-sales and post-sales training and support for programmable logic devices. Prior to this role, Bill served as a Senior Design Engineer at Microsystem Synthesis, Inc. from March 1992 to August 1997, where design services were delivered for microprocessor hardware/software development systems and ASICs. Bill's career began at NEC Electronics Inc. from December 1983 to March 1992 as a Senior Applications Engineer, focusing on application engineering for custom micros and microprocessor devices while enhancing simulation and modeling capabilities. Bill holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.