{"id":20,"date":"2018-11-18T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntrudel.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T22:21:54","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/johntrudel.com\/wordpress\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>I graduated with honors from Georgia Tech and a fellowship for my PhD. I had a pilot\u2019s license before getting a driver\u2019s license but wore glasses. The military didn\u2019t want me to fly.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I found myself in the back of military aircraft, doing prototype electronic intelligence (ELINT) and weapons systems. I was the kid in the back of the room at classified briefings attended by high officers, and, sometimes, the SECDEF himself. They called it \u201cSpecial Ops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Vietnam, I started my first company and produced the first useful automobile radar detector. We called it \u201cThe Snooper.\u201d It made <em>Playboy<\/em> and the legendary Cannonball Baker Race that was the subject of several movies. You can see one in the old movie, <em>Gumball Rally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After selling the business, I worked for Tektronix. My last \u201creal job\u201d was as the business development manager for their corporate research labs. We had a joint venture with Sony, who helped mentor me in Japanese culture and Asian ways. I became an inventor and started a consulting firm. Clients included Intel, Hewlett Packard, the Naval Postgraduate School, IBM, and others.<\/p>\n<p>I retired and started writing thriller novels. We could go anywhere, drop in, and do book signings. Our airplane had a problem one night coming home. Finally, the NTSB and FAA agreed it was not a crash. It was officially an \u201caccident,\u201d even though no one was hurt because there was \u201csubstantial damage.\u201d It was totaled. The insurance paid.<\/p>\n<p>I promised my wife I\u2019d retire. Then General Vallely called. We hope that books like <strong><em>Invisible Treason<\/em><\/strong> can help save our Republic.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntrudel.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntrudel.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntrudel.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntrudel.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntrudel.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/johntrudel.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/johntrudel.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntrudel.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}