Jon G. Wurl
P.O. Box 51478
Palo Alto, CA 94303
650-424-5588
650-787-6240
jonwurl@yahoo.com
Education
University of California, Berkeley. MSEE 1985.
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. BSEE (honors) 1983.
Milwaukee School of Engineering. AAS in Computer Engineering Technology
(honors) 1981.
I earned the BSEE and
AAS at night while working full time.
Employment
1987-present: Varian Associates, Palo Alto, CA. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
(NMR) business unit.
Nov 1987-May 1988: Probe Design Engineer.
May 1988 - Apr 1989: Systems Engineer.
Apr 1989 - Jun 1991: Manager, Mechanical and Magnetic Engineering and
Mechanical Drafting.
Jul 1991 - present: Senior Engineer, Advanced Development.
1991-1992: Superconducting magnet design feasibility.
1992-1993: DSP for NMR feasibility.
1993-1995: DSP for NMR, product development.
1995-1996: NMR digital receiver feasibility.
1996-1998: DSP for eddy current compensation, product development.
1999: DSP based coordinate rotator.
1999-present: LC/NMR software interface product development.
2000-present: DSP based power monitor board.
1985-1987: X-Cyte, Inc., Mountain View, CA. Antenna Design Engineer.
1983-1985: University of California, Berkeley. Research Assistant,
Teaching Assistant.
1982-1983: Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. Electronics technician,
Chemistry Department (full time job, not a student job).
1981-1982: Delco Electronics, Oak Creek, WI. Electronics Technician.
1977-1981: Ampco Metal, Milwaukee, WI. Foundry laborer and weld shop
inspector.
Job Skills
Viewlogic, FPGA, PLDs, Pascal, C, Java, VisualBasic, TMS320C3x
assembly, Z8, PIC, analog and RF design, test equipment (DSO, ICE,
network analyzer, etc.), Linux/Unix, DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95,
miscellaneous computer applications, excellent math skills, good
writing skills.
Career Development Courses Attended
- Texas Instruments C6x Design Workshop
- Project Management
- Successful Presentations
- Time Management
- Introduction to Marketing
- Job of the Supervisor
- Business Strategy
- Project Cost Control
Courses Taught
- Electronics Lab, UC Berkeley
- Electromagnetics, brown bag course, Varian
- Harassment Avoidance, sponsored by Human Resources, Varian
Patents
"Digital Filter Precharging" U.S. Patent No.5652518.
"Digital Eddy-current Compensation" notification of allowance received.
Publications
"Parametric oscillations in semiconductor lasers", 1984 (co-author).
"High-frequency rolloff in the response of junction detectors," Journal
of the Optical Society of America, 1985 (co-author).
"Capacitor arcing," Varian NMR Technical Report, 1988.
"University of Utah 2H observe, 19F lock probe," Varian NMR Technical
Report, 1988.
"Phase transients in NMR probe circuits," Journal of Magnetic Resonance,
1991 (co-author).
"Field analysis of NMR coils," Varian NMR Technical Report, 1992.
"Magnetic field due to an arc of current," Varian NMR Technical Report, 1992.
"Loop response of the lock channel using laplace transform techniques,"
Varian NMR Technical Report, 1993.
"Practical calculation of the convolution sum and approximating the
continuous convolution," Varian NMR Technical Report, 1996.
"The effect of coefficient precision," Varian NMR Technical Report,
1996.
"Two methods for speeding up an FIR," Varian NMR Technical Report,
1996.
"Eddy-current compensation correction of slew-rate limited pulses,"
Varian NMR Technical Report, 2000.
Miscellaneous
Member, IEEE.
Chair, San Francisco Bay Rafting Chapter of Inner City Outings, serving underprivileged
youth.
Member, Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society.
Captain of Varian NMR First-aid Team
Former member Varian NMR Social Committee
References
Varian NMR Human Resources: 650-424-4584.
Other references available upon request.