Why Applied Engineering Science?

Joe Jurneke, President & CEO
 

Back in the 70's I was involved with multi media sound production and loved it.  But, it didn't pay real well and I did not have time to focus on it, since I was a Hardware Design Engineer at a computer peripheral manufacturer.  

I did several projects for a local television station, specifically Denver channel 9. I helped assemble the 1980  Colorado Mountain Club annual slide show gala with 12 projectors and Stereo sound held at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and several other commercial projects for marketing and advertising purposes.

I hold 11 patents in digital signal processing and systems architecture, primarily for use in information storage and retrieval applications. That brings us to today.

I got involved in a hardware project to build an Audio Compressor, old school style -all analog around 1999.  In order to prove the functionality, I had to run test cases against it and its competitors.  I was spending a fortune at a local studio to get console time to run the test cases.  Hence, I purchased a console and ran the cases on my own time.  This resulted in rekindling my enjoyment of sound production Back in the 70's I was involved with multi media sound production and loved it.  But, it didn't pay real well and I did not have time to focus on it, since I was a Hardware Design Engineer at a computer peripheral manufacturer.  

I did several projects for a local television station, specifically Denver channel 9. I helped assemble the 1980  Colorado Mountain Club annual slide show gala with 12 projectors and Stereo sound held at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and several other commercial projects for marketing and advertising purposes.

I hold 11 patents in digital signal processing and systems architecture, primarily for use in information storage and retrieval applications. That brings us to today.

I got involved in a hardware project to build an Audio Compressor, old school style -all analog around 1999.  In order to prove the functionality, I had to run test cases against it and its competitors.  I was spending a fortune at a local studio to get console time to run the test cases.  Hence, I purchased a console and ran the cases on my own time.  This resulted in rekindling my enjoyment of sound production and mixing once again. The endeavor ended up blooming out into more test cases, more complex situations and I found myself mixing complete songs.  Overall, I had 80 test cases I had to run.  Out of that, I ended up mixing about 60 complete songs.  Some of these are now on SoundCloud.

After a long and productive career in designing storage solutions, I have reached the point in life I want to rekindle having fun while working.  Hence the unintentional move to recording mixing and mastering. It’s time to give back to others, and enjoy the path along the way.