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Jon Patrick Nalley

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    Born at St. Vincent's Hospital in downtown Los Angeles on 17 March 1946.  Lived in the downtown area until the age of 3.  From 3-10 lived in Compton, CA. From 10-20 lived in Bellflower, CA and attended Downey Sr. High School.
    Joined the Naval Reserves at 17 and rose to the rate of a 3rd Class Electricians Mate.  Graduated from California State University at Long Beach (Electrical Engineering) in 1969 and then proceeded to Officer Candidate School for 4 months of training.   Commissioned as an Ensign and sent to Hawaii for 3 years of duty aboard the USS Knox (DE 1052).  Spent two 6 month cruises sailing the waters off the coast of Vietnam.  Returned home to find a 6 week old little girl waiting on the pier.  
    Returned to Cal State Long Beach earning a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1973.  Upon graduation, accepted a position that the then Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, CA.
    Career Highlights -

1973-85 Lead Hybrid Engineer in the Microelectronics Branch 1974 Second little baby girl showed up. 1982-85 co-lateral duty as the Center's Electron Devices Program Manager which covered such technologies as RF & Microwave devices, electro-optical devices and materials.

    1985  Selected as Head of the Microelectronics Branch.
    1985  started the silicon micro-machining effort and were on of the first groups in the nation to develop and refine the technology.  This project concentrated on silicon accelerometers for inertial navigation, safe separation devices, contact fuzes and adaptive penetration fuzes.  
    1990  started the Binary Optics program in conjunction with MIT Lincoln Labs to develop practical applications of the theory developed at MIT.  The lab transitions theory into a physical and useful technology.  Binary Optics are low cost, highly efficient lens which can be use for beam shaping, beam multipliexing, beam steering, focusing, filtering and scanning.  
    1990   in conjunction with Intel designed and fabricated the first analog Neural Net device.  This chip was the fastest at the time with a staggering 2.5 billion connections per second.  The chip was designed for use in target recognition and other on-board missile functions.  
    In July 1990 received the Presidential Quality and Management Improvement Award for saving the federal government $37.7M for the in-house design and fabrication of three integrated circuits for the guidance section of the HARM missile.  The award was signed by President George H. Bush.  Of the 13 National winners of this award, the Naval Weapons Center was the only Navy laboratory to receive an award. 
     In September 1992 the in-house ASIC Design Center designed their first integrated circuits fabricated under the MOSIS contract.     
    1992-94 Associate Head for the Manufacturing Sciences Division which consisted of the Metrology, Microelectronics, Production Engineering, Concurrent Engineering, Prototype Manufacturing and Materials Branches.  
    1995-2004   Head of the Manufacturing Engineering, Production Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Microelectronics Branches.  
    1996 Met the wonderful, lovely, intelligent Colette McNicholl
    2004-05  National Division Head for Manufacturing and Quality with employees at China Lake, Pt. Mugu. Patuxent River, Cherry Point, and Jacksonville.  
    2006  Retired from Federal service.
    2006-09  Worked for L-3 Communications (Ridgecrest CA)
         Worked as the program manager for the Joint Counter IED Facility (JCIF).  Work involved theater driven tests; interoperability (jammer on jammmer), compatibility (jammer on communications), collecting and analyzing data as it relates to Improvised Explosive Devices (IED).
         Worked as a Systems Engineer on the Mini-RF Program which designed and developed a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to be launched to the moon in search of ice and water.  Both satellites are now in orbit.  

    Favorite Management related quote:

    We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.   I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
     Written by Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.