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Resume for William D. Jansen

Summary

Since 1980, William D. Jansen has been the president of Makago Electronics, Inc., an electronics design engineering consulting firm. He has been cranking out designs since 1965. The embedded systems work began with an Intel 4004 project in 1975. The rest is ... well, click on the links at the left to get a look.

Professional Experience

Makago Electronics Turning Ideas into Products! (Oct., 1980 - Present) Palo Alto, CA, then Kailua, HI, and currently San Diego, CA.
Varian Associates (August, 1975 - October, 1980) Palo Alto, CA
William D. Jansen, Consultant (Jan., 1975 - Aug., 1975) Mountain View, CA
Norse Systems (November, 1973 - January, 1974) Hayward, CA
Atmospheric Sciences, Inc. (October, 1972 - November, 1973) Sunnyvale, CA
Quantum Science Corporation (October, 1971 - October, 1972) Palo Alto, CA
Calltek (October, 1970 - October, 1971) Mountain View, CA
Santa Rita Technology (August, 1968 - October 1970) Santa Clara, CA
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company (May, 1967 - August, 1968) Sunnyvale, CA
General Electric Company (June, 1965 - August 1967) Cleveland, OH

Education

BSEE - Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, OH; June, 1965.
Graduate Courses in engineering and management; University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
Mead & Conway VLSI Design courses; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; September, 1979.
CMOS upgrade classes; SynMos; Santa Clara, CA; October 1981.

Publications

STIMULUS - DEPENDENT VOICE COMMUNICATION ECM, AFAL-TR-69-152, Air Force Avionics Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; July, 1969 (Classified)
STIMULUS-DEPENDENT VOICE COMMUNICATION ECM, AFAL-TR-70-304, Air Force Avionics Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; February, 1971 (Classified)
THE SILICON FOUNDRY: CONCEPTS AND REALITY, VLSI Design Magazine, First Quarter, 1981
Technical Editor; VLSI Design Magazine

Patents

US. Patent No. 4,074,711: Apparatus and Process for Determining Systolic Blood Pressure.
Two other associated patents for blood pressure devices.

Teaching

Instructor, Foothill College, Los Altos, CA
Math 72: "Math for Electronics" (Calculus)
Elec 70: "Introduction to Microprocessors"
Instructor, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI
IS607: "Introduction to Hardware and Data Communications"
IS613: "Telecommunications"