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Jake is an Executive Program Manager with a large international IT company. He originally spent twenty years in the U.S. Navy as a Bombardier/Navigator in the A-6 Intruder aircraft and has 650 carrier landings in his log. After the Navy he wandered into consulting and eventually into Information Technology projects, where he remains today. His first PC was a Radio Shack TRS-80 with 16K of memory. He upgraded that machine to 64K, then installed floppy drives that held 180K of data and later added C/PM operating system and lower case letters on the screen. Those might seem trivial now, but back then it was cutting edge.
As a navigator, he took notice of GPS when it first came out, but didn't really take great interest in it until the removal of SA made it accurate enough for him to find practical. At that point he combined his Axim X5 PDA with GPS and no longer had to depend on his long suffering wife for map reading. He was member number #40 of Aximsite. When Chris went looking for a Mod and someone to answer GPS questions, he found Jake and the rest, as they say, is history.
He has two children and three grandchildren (and the aforementioned long suffering wife who is as thrilled as he about not having to read maps). He is also an amateur radio operator, callsign W1HRE.
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