James Kennedy George Jr.
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James Kennedy George Jr.

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Jim George grew up in the tri-state area (KY,VA,and WV) of the southern Appalachians. At Virginia Tech, and later in graduate school at Arizona State, he studied Electrical Engineering, and spent nearly forty years in the semiconductor industry, rising to a corporate officer in several companies including Motorola, with worldwide responsibility for a number of areas including Memory ICs, Digital Processors, and Embedded Solutions for Printers. His final responsibilities included world-wide Strategy and Sales for the wireless market. He also served as primary executive customer liaison for semiconductors for HP's printer business and for Motorola's cell phone business, culminating with the extremely successful Razr phone in 2002.

He and his wife, Diana, his high school sweetheart and a retired social worker, have lived in the Hill Country just outside Austin, TX, since 1984. He is a lifelong enthusiast for amateur radio, with the call sign, N3BB, preferring high speed Morse code to a microphone. George is an active jogger and casual race participant in Austin's active running scene. He and Diana began hiking the Appalachian Trail in Georgia in the early 2000's, but their aspirations to continue hiking stopped with Diana's stroke in late 2011.

Jim is a life-long Virginia Tech sports fan, and has served the university in numerous capacities, including as Chairman of the Advisory Boards for both the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, as well as the College of Engineering. He is a member of the Academy of Engineering Excellence at Virginia Tech. In addition, he was a founding member of the Advisory Board for KUT FM, the public broadcasting radio station of UT Austin.

He is an avid reader--reading 40 books a years on average--enjoying both fiction as well as non-fiction, and is a member of a men's book club in Austin.

The Georges have three grown children and five grandchildren.

Reunion was his debut novel. His second book, a non-fiction book, "Contact Sport, A Story of Champions, Airwaves, and a One-Day Race Around the World," was released nationally to wide distribution February 1, 2016.
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