Temecula Valley STEM Patent

As your neighborhood real estate professional, I've had the opportunity to work with amazing professionals. Today I will introduce you to another local expert to provide meaningful information. I'm Mitchell Jones, and Mrs. A low down on Temecula Valley. The first time that Jim and I met to interview for the first episode, it went so well that I asked Jim Richardson to come back. He just is a wealth of knowledge. He is a servant in our community. He is truly someone who just has vast experience that I it's hard to even capitalize everything that he's done. But the last time that we met, you shared everything that you've done here on a local level. Today I want to talk more about the engineering background side of it. There were students exploring this career path, Jim, we're honored to have you here. And we'd like to know in our Valley, who could benefit from your advice, as an in

Well, I think anybody who is looking at a career in engineering, could, you know, I, I'd be happy to, you know, give them a little insight. You know, my career has taken a very interesting path. And I think there are a lot of different paths, you know, the one thing, I think you get an engineering degree, you still don't know exactly the direction your career is going to take. So that's part of the fun of it. I don't do the same thing every day. So if you're a person who who couldn't stand doing the same thing every day, then being an engineer and a problem solver is something that, you know, it really appeals to me.

Tell me about this. What What got you started and what led you down this road?

So when I was young, I thought I wanted to be an architect. But when I went to Cal Poly Pomona, I ended up selecting the major of aerospace engineering and I always had always loved airplanes. And so I went down that road and got an aerospace engineering degree and went to work initially as a systems engineer soon transitioned over and started writing my own software and worked many years as a software engineer. But systems engineering has always been my passion. And in the last few years of my career, I've really gone back more to a core of systems engineering.

Okay. Okay. I would doubt that many engineers can ever say that they have nine us patents under their belts. I mean, that, to me sounds very impressive.

Well, I work with people who who have more and it's kind of, you know, you can say it's being in the right place at the right time. You know, and actually, I started my, my innovation work. So patents come out of innovation. And the first innovation opportunity I had at work came when Toyota approached my company Raytheon about doing a joint project. And that opportunity in that multi year project working with Toyota on a pedestrian warning system led to a series of patents and really kind of got me into the traffic safety technology area. And so I pursued that and worked research and development in that field for, you know, close to a decade after that.

With the Temecula Valley STEM Patent project. I've heard of this. I'm like, What

is this? So the stem patent project came out of my coaching high jumpers. That's turned into coaching and 22 years later, I've been coaching highjump for 22 years. So, but recently, I had a young lady who was interested in technology, you know, we were looking at measuring devices with infrared beams. And could you measure how high above the crossbar you were when you pass over? So I looked into it a little bit, there was already a patent for that. I said, Well, we can still try to build one and maybe use it so starting to build some parts. And when I showed him to her, she said said something about well, does it know where you are? And can it tell you when to kick up your legs?