Before co-founding Tempus Fugit with Vigyan Singhal, Higgins worked at cadence in the area of mixed-signal verification. He left in 2005 and since then has been conducting various consulting jobs.
B.E., Electrical Engineering (1982) and a M.Sc. (Comp. Sc.), Computer Science
(1983) from University College Cork. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 1989