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Robert C. Shelton

1259 El Camino Real, #351
Menlo Park, CA 94025-4208
Voice or Fax: 866-406-6147
Fax: 815-846-2730

robert_shelton@yahoo.com

Skills and Qualifications

  • I have extensive experience as an operations executive in start-up high technology companies: microwave electronics, telecomunications and scientific instruments.
  • I have extensive experience as an electronics consultant.
  • I have written over 500 hardware and software technical manuals.
  • I am skilled in FORTAN, BASIC, PASCAL, dBase 3+, C++, HTML 4.x and 80xxx/Pentium microprocessor assembly language(s).
  • I am proficient in CPM, MS-DOS, UNIX and MS-Windows 2.x - ME/XP, Linux and Mac OS x.x
  • I am proficient mainframe, PC and Internet application programs, e.g., MS-Word, Lotus, FTP and HTTP (web page design).
  • I have 10 years research and development: physics and electronic instruments.
  • I have 10 electronics manufacturing: purchasing, assembly, test and management.
  • My biography listed in Marquis Who's Who in the West and Who's Who in Technology.

    Employment
    President — Shelton Electronics, Menlo Park CA (1977 to Present)

    Provide electronics consulting services relating to design, development, manufacturing engineering and technical writing and publishing. Service includes product project evaluation, Statement of Work (outlining the service and the project time-frame), and project development to completion. Examples of past projects include:

    Design and Development Project: A key telephone system music-on-hold instrument and then manufactured 165 units for a leasing client (Music Line, Fresno CA).

    Manufacturing Engineering: Documented construction and manufacturing of mercury vapor lamps (Illumination Industries, Sunnyvale CA). Design and built electronic test fixtures (Prentice Electronics, Palo Alto, Pacific Western Systems, Mt. View etc.).

    Technical Writing: Have written and published hundreds of client technical manuals, including photography and line drawings. Client industries are computers, peripherals, semiconductor equipment, telecommunications and instruments.

    Patents
    Cryogenic instruments, NMR instrument and computer peripherals.

    Licenses
    CA DMV Class C
    FCC Extra Class Amateur Radio K6TGR
    FCC 1st Class Commercial Radio Telephone PG-12-31629
    FAA Private Pilot

    Education and Training
    Computer Graphics Course — IEEE — Stanford University
    Computer Operating Systems Course — IEEE — Stanford University
    Programming Assembly and High Level Languages Course — McGraw Hill — Menlo Park
    Electronic Engineering — California Polytechnic University — San Luis Obispo
    General Engineering — Los City College — Los Angeles
    Radio, Television and Electronics Course — National Schools — Los Angeles
    IC Technician Class A and several Class C schools — US Navy — San Diego

    Military Service
    US Navy — IC1 — Honorable Discharge after 4 years active and 4 years reserve.