Jonathan Luck

Mr. Luck is the Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Secretary of Mission Manager, Inc. and its parent company, Vigilys, Inc. Mr. Luck has over 30 years of experience in the design, development and manufacture of a wide range of electronic equipment and systems. At Texas Instruments, he gained work experience in their consumer integrated circuit silicon foundry and test labs. He worked on a number of IC designs, including one of the world’s first electronic calculator integrated circuits developed and introduced by Charles Sinclair. At Sontranic, he supported the development of the automated phone response system used by all of London Transport for automated schedule and time table annunciation. As a consultant at Marconi Space and Defense Systems, he held a top secret clearance while developing the underwater recovery unit and autopilot test package for the Stingray Torpedo program. Relocating to the United States in 1981, Mr. Luck joined InterOcean Systems, an Oceanographic company, where he designed and developed an ultra low power microprocessor control digital recording package for an Underwater Current Meter Program. He also developed and tested an underwater towed array vehicle that was to be used to ping underwater acoustic releases. Mr. Luck subsequently served as co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Altec Irrigation, Inc., where he applied his expertise in ultra low power control systems, developing the LEITControl series of Irrigation Control Systems in use worldwide today.

Mr. Luck graduated in 1973 from Reading University in the UK with a Bachelors of Science Honors Degree in Cybernetics and Instrument Physics. He is the author of several patents involved with ultra low power circuit design, solar energy storage and management systems and wildfire detection systems.