Robert Kruse:
CLASS OF 1984
Hoover High SchoolClass of 1984
Des moines, IA
Syracuse UniversityClass of 1993
Syracuse, NY
Iowa State UniversityClass of 1988
Ames, IA
Robert's Story
Life
I moved to Poughkeepsie, New York in 1988 after graduating from college. I married in 1990. I moved to Austin, Texas in 1994. My mother died in 1995. I have 2 girls and 1 boy born in 1995, 1997, and 1999, respectively. My father died in 1999. My oldest is following in her dad's footsteps and earned a B.S. in electrical engineering at Texas A&M and is now working for IBM. My middle child earned a B.A. in journalism from Indiana University and is now working for a paper in Arkansas. My graduated with a B.A. in Business/Finance from Texas State University after transferring from the University of New Mexico after his sophomore year. My wife and I are living very contentedly in Austin, TX.
School
I am so glad I studied hard in junior high & high school so I could go to college and get on with my life. College rocked! No regrets.
College
I received by B.S. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University in 1988. I have many fond memories of living on campus, going to parties, working all night on team projects, learning neat new concepts, dating without parental supervision, rediscovering God, matur...Expand for more
ing as an individual, pushing myself to the limit, being recognized for being a top scholar, interviewing for jobs across the entire country, working internships far from home, and in general becoming independent. College was the most exciting time of my life up to that point.
Workplace
I designed mainframe CPUs for IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY, from 1988 to 1994. I transferred to IBM Austin, TX, in 1994 and designed workstation memory controllers until 2000. In 2000, I joined Cirrus Logic to design USB attached PC peripherals. In 2002 I joined Infotronic America and designed graphics controllers there. I then moved to Intel in 2008 and worked on their ATOM SOCs. From there I moved to Samsung SARC in 2011 where I designed GPUs that went into high end smart phones and tablets. In 2015, I rejoined IBM in Austin to design Power CPUs. In 2017, I returned to Samsung to again design high end smartphone GPUs. From 2019 to 2021, I joined the startup Tactual Labs to design gesture detecting FPGAs. Most recently, I've joined BAE Systems to design Avionics FPGAs. I have always been an ASIC/FPGA chip designer throughout.
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