My Personal Web Page - John F Gerling

Date of Birth:
March 5, 1956

Wife:
Sally (MS, RD, CDE at Kaiser Permanente Medical Group)

Daughters:
Amanda (1988), Melanie (1990)

Born and raised in California, I currently reside in Modesto, CA (USA)
in the same home my wife, Sally, and I bought in 1986. Daughter Amanda successfully completed the International Baccalaureate program and is attending UC Irvine in pre-med studies towards a career in Ophthalmology. Daughter Melanie, a principal dancer with Central West Ballet, will also complete the IB program this year and plans to study mathematics.

(L-R) Amanda, Sally and Melanie on the John Muir Trail overlooking Nevada Falls (Yosemite), May 2004

Education:
BS Mechanical Engineering, 1982
San Diego State University

Current Position:
Founder and President, Gerling Applied Engineering, Inc.

Previous Positions:
Vice President/General Manager, ASTeX/Gerling Labs
Manager, Systems Division, Gerling Laboratories

Affiliations:
Microwave Working Group (Founding member, Treasurer)
AMPERE
International Microwave Power Institute (past Treasurer)
American Ceramic Society
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Sample Publications:
Microwave Clothes Drying
Microwave Equipment Safety
Waveguide Components and Configurations
Waveguide Power Measurement

Patents:
Compact Mw Clothes Dryer and Method
End of Cycle Detector for Mw Clothes Dryer
Clothes Drying Apparatus with Improved Tumbling Action

I owe by career to my father, John E Gerling, who managed to teach me a sense of responsibility no matter how hard I tried to avoid it.

A friend introduced me to road cycling in 2004 by inviting me to join him on the local Tour de Cure charity ride. I rode my 1960's vintage Schwinn Varsity in that event and was immediately hooked. The next year I completed dozens of century (100 mile) and metric century (100 km) rides and in 2006 entered my first criterium. I am now a member of the InfoVista Cycling Team and train in the gorgeous foothills of the Sierra motherlode.

Off the front at the 2007 Modesto Criterium (M35+ 4/5).

After dabbling briefly with traditional (Dixieland) jazz playing washboard, I am currently the principal timpanist with the Modesto Junior College Community Orchestra. This association also leads to other performance opportunities, including stints as the pit orchestra percussionist for productions of Broadway musicals by the MJC Department of Musical Theater and Dance.

24-instrument setup for Sondheim's "Into the Woods"

Throughout my life I have always maintained an active interest in music. I always participated in school bands (concert, marching, etc.) but by far my fondest memories while growing up are from marching in drum and bugle corps. Starting at the bottom ranks playing tenor drum in a local drum and bell (glockenspiel) corps, I picked the right path to success which ended with the Blue Devils winning the DCI national championships in 1976.

"The Wall" - 1976 Blue Devils snare line