Rob
Gilmore Robert Gilmore serves as Vice President, Technology in QUALCOMM’s Corporate Research and Development having re-joined QUALCOMM in March, 2008. Mr. Gilmore has more than 30 years experience in engineering, communication systems design and development.
Mr. Gilmore joined QUALCOMM as the ninth employee in October, 1985. His experience includes Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering where he was responsible for the OmniTRACS production system, early testing of the CDMA cellular system, the Globalstar ground segment including gateways, phones, ground operation control center, and Systems Engineering, and served as Senior Vice President of Engineering for the Consumer Products Division.
In 2000 Mr. Gilmore became a founder and Vice President of Engineering for Mobilian Corporation where he oversaw engineering activities in San Diego CA, Portland OR, and Haifa, Israel. In 2003 he joined VIA Telecom to lead engineering activities in the San Diego and China Offices. In 2006 Mr. Gilmore joined Nextwave Corporation and served as the Senior Vice President in charge of engineering.
Mr. Gilmore was Director of Engineering and a founder of ComStream Corporation. From 1978 to 1984 he was a Staff Engineer at Linkabit Corporation in San Diego.
Mr. Gilmore began his career as a VI-A student at Bell Laboratories, where he worked both in digital radio and in satellite research. He earned his BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
