John graduated from UC Davis with a BSEE in 1993 and has been an electronic design engineer for 18 years. Prior to college, John served six years as a nuclear operator in the US Navy. John is currently a Sr. Design Engineer doing PCB, Instrument, & System design and Verliog, LabVIEW, & C programming for Optiphase, a small company in Van Nuys, CA specializing in optical interferometric instrumentation for Oil & Gas, Medical, Academic, Government, and Defense industries. Prior to joining Optiphase in 2007, John had worked mostly at small companies, like Optiphase, which typically have a need for his diverse talents in areas such as analog, digital, FPGA, embedded, control systems, wireless, imaging, optoelectronics, PCB layout, and software. John also worked at UC Irvine from 1996 to 2001, providing engineering support for research in the Physics Department.
