Freescale Semiconductor (went private in Dec 2006, no longer publicly traded). I'm in the Strategy group within the the Wireless and Mobile Systems group. I've been concentrating on some industry standards, 3GPP, MIPI, OMTP, and pay attention to others. The standards process has been fascinating, like a sausage factory, but a bit messier.

Current Role: Director, Radio Technology and Strategy

External Roles:

Board of Directors seat, Arizona Telecommunications and Information Council (www.arizonatele.com/atic)

Board of Directors seat, IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (www.ieee-isto.org)

Google "jon adams zigbee", "jon adams uwb", "jon adams ultra wideband", "jon adams ieee" (or misspell my name as "john" as some spell my name incorrectly...)

My Roles to Date

Director, WLAN/PAN Architecture, SPS WBSG
Director, Radio Technology, SPS WBSG Radio Products Division

I was a REAL rocket scientist... Over 17 years of exciting missions, starting in the ground-based Deep Space Network and finishing my career as part of a team to develop and deploy the Mars Network. It was a truly excellent time spent.

After nearly two decades of building a lot of one-off, tremendously expensive (as much as $50 million) very cool things, I decided that it was time for me to be in a business where I could build (potentially) billions of tremendously cool, very inexpensive ($1) things. Consider it a transition to my "Eli Whitney" phase.

Major projects

Electra - The Red Planet's First Orbiting Repeater System 2000. (I named it!)
SeaWinds Scatterometer - Launched 15 December 2002
QuikSCAT Ground Calibration Station - Deployed June 1998
QuikSCAT Scatterometer - Launched 19 June 1999
NSCAT Scatterometer - launched 16 August 1996
NUSCAT Scatterometer (flown many times on the NASA/Ames C-130 Hercules)
SETI - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - System Design for the "Million-Channel" Receiver
Phobos and Deimos - Rescue Mission for the Russian Twins
Voyager 2 Neptune Encounter
Voyager 2 Uranus Encounter

Major roles

Project Manager, Mars Network Payload
Project Manager, QuikSCAT Calibration Ground Station
Contract Technical Manager, SeaWinds/QuikSCAT Scatterometer Electronics Subsystem
Cognizant Engineer, SeaWinds/QuikSCAT Scatterometer Electronics Subsystem
Technical Group Supervisor, Radio Frequency Subsystems, 336 Spacecraft Telecommunications Equipment
Contract Technical Manager, NSCAT Radio Frequency Subsystem
Cognizant Engineer, NSCAT Radio Frequency Subsystem
Cognizant Engineer and Task Manager, Ka-Band Link Experiment (KaBLE) Ku-band Multifeed Downconverter
Cognizant Engineer, NuSCAT Radio Frequency Subsystem
Cognizant Development Engineer, Deep Space Network (DSN) Base Band Array (BBA)

Major Awards

NASA Exceptional Technical Achievement Medal, 1997

Freescale Diamond Chip Award, 2007, for efforts to ensure the success of 2007 Freescale Technology Forum
Freescale Standards Excellence Award, 2005, for driving Freescale's UWB technology as a global standard
Motorola Standards Impact Award, 2004, for success in developing the first IEEE802.15.4 products and markets
NASA Achievement Award, 2000, For the development, launch and operations of a new, fast (14 mo) from proposal to launch spacecraft
NASA Achievement Award, 1992, Outstanding systems operations planning and performance
NASA Achievement Award, 1986, Outstanding achievement in engineering and implementation
JPL Award for Excellence, 1999, Ground Station facility development, implementation and operation

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jon (at) jonadams.com