Jon Richards Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, California, United States

Developing Bluetooth and firmware solutions for iOS, Android and embedded devices. C/C++/Java/Swift/Python. Arm based embedded development

Roseville, CA

Supporting Microchip NAND controller technology.

Mountain View, California, United States

Exploring techniques and developing software to obtain and analyze radio astronomy data related to quantum mechanics.

Berkeley, California, United States

Leading a 6 month course in data analytics and data visualization for UC Berkeley Extension. Teaching Python, Pandas, Matplotlib, SQL, Javascipt, and more. All remote via Zoom. 23 students. It's fun! This is part-time - I am still consulting full time.

Berkeley California

Contractor at Bramson, Welch and Associates, Berkeley, CA- Developed 5 Android applications and 3 libraries for testing Bluetooth and Nfc enabled medical devices using Java, C, and Android Studio, improving product reliability, projected to be used by 1+ million users.- Experimented with multiple BLE connection strategies using Bluetooth sniffer and.

Mountain View, CA

Head of SETI operations at the Allen Telescope Array. I operated the world's longest ongoing search for signals from ET! Software and hardware development, scheduling, repair, system improvements. I searched for ET radio signals for 11 years and did not detect any!- Developed and operated radio signal search using 42 large radio receiving dishes resulting.

- Developed Windows PC applications to interface with hydraulic controls using C and C#, allowing customers to easily control large hydraulic systems.- Migrated existing base code from Labview, replacing it with more standard C and C# desktop applications, increasing development speed and decreasing bugs by and 2X.- Created custom firmware update method.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Developed backend services for Nokia's mobile internet gaming platform using C and PERL, allowing backend services to keep up to date with mobile gaming applications.

- Managed team of 3 developers to create thin client desktop app using C and C++, enabling development of custom internet applications.- Demonstrated to 8 potential investors and VCs, allowing team to tailor app to address investor concerns.

Tokyo, Japan

Ecofront, Formerly Argyle Home Technologies, was in Tokyo. I schemed up new ideas and developed home automation systems that operate over the Internet. Occasionally I traveled to Tokyo, but most of my work was done remotely from California.- Conceived and developed home automation systems with combination of off-the-shelf and custom hardware using.

At Terra-Mar we developed complete systems for creating very detailed orthophotography. I designed and developed a complete turn-key system. The system comprised hardware and software for taking very high precision photographs, digital and film, from an airplane. Later these pictures would be processed, by software I developed, to create very precise.

This was my first real engineering job. Worked on developing a FORTRAN compiler and various software that ran on a special computer developed by the company. I got to write programs in assembly and machine code!

Bs In Computer And Electrical Engineering, Computer Programming And Electronics

High School, I Liked Electronics Class The Best!