I’m with a startup company, Aptix, that makes a hardware/software product for prototyping/emulating an electronic system at high speeds, using programmable logic and programmable interconnect chips. We also offer services, for those of our customers that desire help with this aspect of their project. I am a consulting engineer in our services group. I travel quite a bit, but luckily many of our customers are right here in the Silicon Valley. My current project is going to be part of Japan’s next generation digital High Definition Television (HDTV).
Our customers read like a who’s who of electronics. Many major IC companies are our customers, and I think that every company that is a major player in cellular telephones is using our system to try out their circuits before they build the final production version. If you have a cell phone, Aptix was likely used in its development! We are working hard to make the company successful so we can go public.
I’m single with no kids. I own a home in Walnut Creek (CA), and commute to San Jose, or wherever the job takes me. Before Aptix (last 2 years), I worked 15 years designing inertial guidance systems at BEI Systron Donner (Concord, CA), 4 years designing aircraft autopilots at Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, IA), and 2 years working on 2-way FM radios at Motorola (Schaumburg, IL). I got my BSEE at Iowa in 1976. I have around a dozen US patents.