
Jim Dodd
BACKGROUND OF TECHNICAL FIELD Design engineering is the field that harmonizes concept choices with feasible manufacture or research goals... | Santa Monica, California, United States
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Jim Dodd’s Expertise BACKGROUND OF TECHNICAL FIELD Design engineering is the field that harmonizes concept choices with feasible manufacture or research goals with experimental constraints. Envision a "draftwright" liaising between inventor, maker and customer. I am reinventing myself in this field. A prior endeavor was the field of interactive multimedia programming in post production. I began in the fields of electrical, optical and mechanical engineering, applying research and industrial innovation to millimeter wave and microwave sources. BRIEF SUMMARY OF CAREER In aerospace, I maintained production of a microwave amplifier. Yield was terrible. I benchmarked historical failures to justify funding a computer simulation of electron trajectories to reduce high-voltage arcing. From my physics intuition and fabrication process innovation, monthly production tripled. Later, I took an entrepreneurial path in three, "boutique" multimedia start-ups. DVD menu navigation during movie playback was unheard of. I prototyped a software scripting method and devised a way for subtitle sprites to become actionable buttons. With a simple laser pointer, I showed the plant president that a discrepancy was due to a DVD bonding irregularity instead of a programming error they attributed to us. DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED PROFESSION The profession I prefer is design engineering, forging concepts into products, processes or approaches that incorporate the vagaries of manufacturing, the variable demands of end users or the feedback of co-researchers. CLAIMS 1. What I claim as my occupation is entrepreneurial design engineer. 2. One instance, within a large entity, is a technical associate devising process improvements, or a research associate where my intrapreneurial mindset contributes to hone the research procedures. 3. Another implementation, for a small business, is a design engineer, a technical aide-de-l'entrepreneur, the industrial innovator to realize the entrepreneur's vision.
Jim Dodd’s Current Industry Varedan Technologies
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Dodd’s Prior Industry
Hughes Aircraft Company Electron Dynamic Devices
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California State University Long Beach
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Ucla Physics Department Center For Advanced Accelerators
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Cloud 9 Interactive
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Deluxe Laboratories
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Cinrampop Dvd Center Sold To Blink Digitalascent Media
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Upward Bound House
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Infodisc Technology
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L2 Digital
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Walt Disney Pictures And Television
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342 Media
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Coast Video Production Inc Dba Videobuilder
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Us Census Bureau
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Vons
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Varedan Technologies
Test Engineer
Sun Dec 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
Vons
Bakery Clerk
Sat Jun 01 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Nov 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Us Census Bureau
2010 Census Crew Leader
Thu Apr 01 2010 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sat May 01 2010 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Coast Video Production Inc Dba Videobuilder
Freelance DVD Author
Fri Jun 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Thu Nov 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
342 Media
Freelance DVD Author
Fri Sep 01 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Thu Mar 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Walt Disney Pictures And Television
Freelance DVD Author to Disney Worldwide Technical Services, Inc.
Wed Feb 01 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sat Apr 01 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
L2 Digital
Blue-ray & DVD Author
Sun Jan 01 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Jan 01 2010 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Infodisc Technology
DVD Authoring Manager
Sun Jun 01 2003 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Tue Feb 01 2005 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Upward Bound House
Grant Editor/Writer
Sat Feb 01 2003 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Tue Apr 01 2003 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Cinrampop Dvd Center Sold To Blink Digitalascent Media
DVD Author & Developer
Sat Mar 01 1997 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Mon Apr 01 2002 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Deluxe Laboratories
Independent Consultant
Tue Oct 01 1996 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Tue Oct 01 1996 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Cloud 9 Interactive
Software Prototyper/Manager of Information Systems
Wed Nov 01 1995 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun Sep 01 1996 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Consultant to Free-Electron Laser Technology Group
Wed Jul 01 1992 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sat Aug 01 1992 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Ucla Physics Department Center For Advanced Accelerators
Postdoctoral Scholar
Mon Jan 01 1990 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sat Feb 01 1992 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
California State University Long Beach
Physics Instructor, Part-Time
Sun Sep 01 1985 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun Dec 01 1985 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Hughes Aircraft Company Electron Dynamic Devices
Project Engineer, Member of the Technical Staff - Physics
Wed Jun 01 1983 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sat Feb 01 1986 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)