Tom Boedecker joined TIAA as a lifetime member in 2005 after retiring from TI at the end of 2004. “I was interested in staying in contact with friends from TI whom had retired before me and have enjoyed the charity golf tournament almost every year since”. Tom graduated from Texas A&M in January 1964 with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and a commission as a 2nd Lt. in the US Army Ordnance Corps. Tom joined TI as a mechanical design engineer in the Space Systems Division. In May 1964, Tom started a four-year LOA, three years of military service at the US Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, AL, and one year completing an MS Engineering Mechanics degree at the University of Alabama – Huntsville. Tom returned to TI in April 1968 where he spent the next 12 years in various engineering assignments in the Defense business, including eight years at the Ridgecrest, CA, facility, before earning an MBA from the University of Dallas and transferring to Corporate Finance in May 1980. Tom worked in various finance and accounting assignments for the balance of his career in the Defense business, Corporate Risk and the Semiconductor business. Tom and his wife Linda have been married 50 years and have two daughters and four granddaughters.
Tom Boedecker
