Paul does his best thinking when he is outdoors and active. You might find him imagining the next application for a particular Texas Instruments IC while he is completing one of his 100-mile cycling rides or camping. When he isn’t outdoors, you can find Paul molding the next generation of creative minds at TI Kilby Labs. At work, Paul gets his energy from mentoring junior engineers, engaging with college students, and meeting with new customers and startup companies.

Paul’s role in Kilby Labs gives him the opportunity to solve complex problems and learn about how to enable the capabilities that exist across TI’s rich portfolio of products. For example, TI developed a family of products integrating a 16-bit microcontroller with analog building blocks to control and drive a wide variety of brushless DC motors.  The first applications were small cooling fans and ebikes.  Since this capability was established, Paul has looked for creative ways to use this basic capability beyond its original purpose.  Products like a solar powered battery charger, and low cost UPS for markets China are just some of the ideas that have come from looking beyond the original capabilities of a product family.

Paul believes that in order to be innovative one must be extremely curious and open to new ideas.  Technological innovation is a very natural result of connecting ideas, concepts and people together.