Jim Lilly

As the company’s Vice President of Engineering, Jim is responsible for all of the engineering, product development and R&D activities at JEM. Jim is also responsible for the technical oversight of JEM’s testing facilities and offering technical sales support.

Prior to JEM Engineering, Jim co-founded of E-tenna Corporation, a wireless embedded antenna company. At E-tenna, he led the product development efforts for several product lines. Before co-founding E-tenna, Jim was a member of the antenna systems division of Atlantic Aerospace of Greenbelt, MD. Before that, Jim served as a senior scientist with the Amecom Division of Litton Systems, designing spiral and horn antenna elements for several military aircraft systems.

Co-inventor of both the tunable patch antenna as well as reduced weight artificial dielectrics, Jim also developed and implemented several innovative concepts and designs for electrically small antennas on low observable airborne platforms. He also developed and used computational methods for the design and optimization of single and multi-mode Archimedean and equiangular spirals, logarithmic and log-periodic antennas, and patch antennas and arrays.

Jim received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) degrees from West Virginia University where he also completed coursework toward his PhD.