In 1985 Circuit Design Consultants, the predecessor of ACDI, was founded by Greg Ochoa. Ochoa started his career as a TI-trained printed circuit board designer in the 1970's. Subsequently, Ochoa identified a niche that was unfulfilled by current offerings in the pcb industry. His vision was to offer a turnkey service for product development. Starting with the schematic, a seamless process returns a handful of prototype boards to the customer. This is true one-stop shopping. Ochoa created an organization that serves as the hub for a variety of satellite services: engineering, bare board fabrication, and assembly. This has allowed the company to be eminently flexible, expanding or contracting as needed to respond to both the market and the requirements of the customer. No large overhead costs are passed on to the customer. Service is to the highest standard. The company relocated from Dallas to central Texas in 1990, at the very beginning of Austin's technology boom. The business plan that was developed in 1989 concluded that this move would be beneficial to the company due to the increasing role of technology in the Austin-San Antonio marketplace. Events proved this assumption orrect.
Greg and his wife Anne settled in Lago Vista, a picturesque city on the North Shore of Lake Travis. As Greg had begun his career at the local Texas Instruments campus, it was not long before he was reestablished as a leader in the local PCB industry. In 1993 Greg founded and became the first President of the Austin Heart of Texas "AHOT" Chapter of the IPC Designer's Council. Meanwhile Circuit Design Consultants grew, and expanded its operations to offer production.
In November of 2002, the sole-proprietorship Circuit Design Consultants incorporated and became Austin Circuit Design, Inc. Last year, ACDI celebrated a quarter of a century supplying quality workmanship and on-time delivery to the printed circuit board industry.
Design layout and parts procurement are performed at company headquarters, while fabrication and assembly remain the responsibility of our partners in industry. Recent projects the company has completed include boards for telecommunications, test equipment, seismic measurement, medical diagnostics, security systems, and rescue equipment.
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Key Personnel
Greg Ochoa, President and Chief Executive Officer, began his career 40 years ago as a trainee at Texas Instruments. After 10 years with TI, he joined an independent design house as designer, eventually moving into sales. In 1985 his entrepreneurial spirit kicked in and he founded Circuit Design Consultants. The rest, as they say, is history. It must be said that the key to ACDI’s success is Greg’s hands-on working style. He ensures that each board is fine tuned to the highest degree of accuracy and manufacturability, to achieve the lowest possible cost per unit. He is the Founding President of The Austin Heart of Texas Chapter of the IPC Designer’s Council, and currently serves as Treasurer.
Anne Ochoa, VP and Chief Financial Officer, came somewhat later to the pcb industry. She began as a software engineer and consultant for a national manufacturing consulting company, and was working in that industry when she and Greg met in 1983. After their marriage in 1988, she joined Greg’s company as bookkeeper, moving gradually to the technical side as parts librarian. As the prototype business started to increase, she became purchasing agent, a job which she continues to enjoy to this day. She also handles the accounting and financial side of the company. Anne has an MBA in Marketing from the University of Texas at Arlington.
ACDI's principal team is in turn supplemented by talented designers, technical support personnel, mechanical and electrical engineers that are brought to bear as such needs arise. Chief among these are Mike Shrader, Chuck Michie, Jerry Hopp, Charles DeLoach, and Tim Leiker. Long standing relationships with these talented individuals allow us to increase our bandwidth when necessary, without passing excess overhead on to our customers.
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| Celebration! |
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| Anne and Greg Ochoa |
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| 25th Anniversary Dinner |
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