Jerry Hirschinger
Jerry's hometown is Lafayette, Indiana. He received extensive electronics training in the US Marines, NASA, and Purdue. He returned to PINMRF in August of 2003, having served PINMRF previously from 1998-2000. Jerry is responsible for troubleshooting and repair of spectrometer problems and facility infrastructure, liquid helium fills, and assists Kristian with microcomputer maintenance.
METROLOGY TECHNICIAN, United States Marine Corps; various posts. 1975-1981. Repair and Calibration of a wide variety of instrumentation.
NETWORK TECHNICIAN, NASA Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, Bendix Field Engineering Corporation; Barstow, California. 1981-1986. Repaired and calibrated frequency synthesizers and time standards.
ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN, Philips Circuit Assemblies; West Lafayette, Indiana. 1986-1989. Maintained surface-mount assembly and testing machines.
BS in ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY. Purdue University; West Lafayette, Indiana. 1987-1996. 4.0 GPA, Golden Key, Phi Kappa Phi, and Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Societies. Studied part-time while working full-time.
SENIOR INSTRUMENTATION SPECIALIST, Jonathan Amy Facility for Chemistry Instrumentation (JAFCI), Purdue University Dept. of Chemistry; West Lafayette, Indiana. 1989-1998. Designed, fabricated and repaired a variety of chemistry research instrumentation.
NMR INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEER, Purdue University Interdepartmental NMR Facility. 1998-2000. Moved, installed and maintained 9 NMR spectrometers.
NMR FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER, Cryomag Services; Hillsborough, New Jersey. 2000-2001. Moved, installed, and maintained NMR and MRI systems all over the USA.
PRODUCT ENGINEER, NMR Magnex Scientific; Concord, California. 2001-2003. Installed, moved and repaired superconducting magnets for NMR, MRI, FTMS and other applications all over the USA and Canada.