Jim Mikola

Jim Mikola is Chief Software Engineer at Altia. Jim contributes to the overall success of the company by providing technical oversight of the software manufactured by the company. He provides technical expertise and leadership in all areas of engineering including product definition and creation — overall embedded software formulation, specification, design, development, testing and documentation. Jim guides and advises Altia Senior Management on product strategy and vision. He also contributes to recruiting, mentoring and training of Altia’s engineering staff.

During his time at Altia, Jim has created a majority of Altia’s DeepScreen targets. He has also written the code for Font Modules, Altia Safety Monitor, Altia Cloud components, Altia Launcher and the latest Altia Design editor. He has collaborated with many of the company’s key ecosystem partners, including Infineon, NXP, QNX, Renesas, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments, as well as key customers. Jim has created embedded device GUIs for a variety of applications — automotive clusters, audio/infotainment systems, test and measurement GUIs for industrial applications and more.

Jim came to Altia from Visteon Corporation, where he was an expert in Human-Machine Interface software development using automated code-generation tools like Altia and Stateflow®. He has also worked at Motorola, as a team leader for Automotive Concepts; at General Motors, as a Product Release Engineer; and at Westinghouse, as a Naval Nuclear Power Engineer.

Jim received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He is also a graduate of the Naval Nuclear Power Engineer Program, where he successfully completed an intensive, multi-stage training on nuclear power plant systems and emergency response.