Resume for Jon G. Wurl

Contact

jonwurl@electrochallenge.com
P.O. Box 1941
Mariposa, CA 95338
650-787-6240

Employment

ElectroChallenge Designs

Recent projects:

  • embedded linux touchscreen sales demonstration device
  • autostainer instrument production test system
  • industrial embedded microcontroller concrete dispenser system
  • web site development and database design

Varian Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) business unit

  • Technical Lead, unix-to-Windows Conversion
  • Project Manager, automated probe tuning
  • Manager, Peripherals Group
  • DSP based power monitor board
  • LC/NMR software interface
  • DSP based 'coordinate rotator'
  • DSP for eddy current compensation
  • NMR digital receiver
  • Digital filter for NMR
  • Superconducting magnet design
  • Manager, Mechanical and Magnetic Engineering
  • Systems Engineer
  • Probe Design Engineer

X-Cyte, Inc., Mountain View, CA.

  • Antenna Design Engineer.
  • Startup company installation and service duties.

Education

  • UC Santa Cruz Extension, Certificate in Software Engineering, 2007
  • University of California, Berkeley. MSEE 1985
  • University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. BSEE (honors) 1983
  • Milwaukee School of Engineering. AAS in Computer Engineering Technology (honors) 1981

Patents

Digital Filter Precharging U.S. Patent No.5652518.

Digital Eddy-current Compensation U.S. Patent No. 6154030.

Miscellaneous

Job Skills

Specific job skills include: Linux/Unix, DOS, Windows, C/C++, C#, Java, VisualBasic, QT, Eclipse, OpenEmbedded, bitbake, TMS320C3x assembly, Z8, PIC, analog and RF design, test equipment (DSO, ICE, network analyzer, etc.), Viewlogic, FPGA, PLDs, Pascal, miscellaneous computer applications, excellent math skills, and good writing skills.

Career Development Courses/Certificates

  • Sun Certified Java Associate (2006)
  • Medical Device Design (UC-Santa Cruz Extension)
  • Managing Global Software Teams
  • Project Management
  • Successful Presentations
  • Time Management
  • Introduction to Marketing
  • Job of the Supervisor
  • Business Strategy
  • Agile and Iterative Development

Courses Taught

  • Electronics Lab, UC Berkeley
  • Electromagnetics, brown bag course, Varian
  • Harassment Avoidance, sponsored by Human Resources, Varian
  • Java, brown bag course, Varian
  • Wilderness First Aid, Foster Calm
  • Advanced Outdoor Leadership Training, Sierra Club

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)
  • Phase transients in NMR probe circuits
    - Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 1991 (co-author)
  • Miscellaneous internal Varian NMR Technical reports including:
    • Capacitor arcing
    • University of Utah 2H observe, 19F lock probe
    • Field analysis of NMR coils
    • Magnetic field due to an arc of current
    • Loop response of the lock channel using laplace transform techniques
    • Practical calculation of the convolution sum and approximating the continuous convolution
    • The effect of coefficient precision
    • Two methods for speeding up an FIR
    • Eddy-current compensation correction of slew-rate limited pulses

Other

  • Senior Member, IEEE
  • National Steering Committee, Sierra Club's Inner City Outings
  • Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society