Director-Intellectual Property and Industrial Liaison
(Formerly with Boeing where he handled intellectual property and was at one time involved with the air born laser project.)
John retired from Boeing in 1998 as manager of the Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) and Shock Physics group in the Defense and Space Division of The Boeing Company in Seattle, WA. His group averaged approximately one million dollars in R&D contracts per year under his leadership, as well as supporting many Boeing programs, both in the Commercial Aircraft and Defense and Space Divisions. In his 13 years as a manager, his group won every proposal that they bid. He served for 5 years on the patent review board and made several dozen presentations of patent disclosures to the board. Prior to being promoted to management in 1985, he was involved as an engineer in many aspects of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) with emphasis on electric propulsion (rail guns). He designed and operated several guns, including one with a soft recovery system so candidate components for a rail gun launched projectile could be evaluated in a simulated full-scale projectile launch environment. He particularly enjoyed being the lead engineer on evaluation and design of several high risk, high payoff concepts, such as a Deuterium Fluorine laser, applying sonar array technology to an array of seismometers, etc