Background
Jeffredo, John Victor was born on November 5, 1927 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of John Edward and Pauline Matilda (Whitten) Jeffredo.
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Jeffredo, John Victor was born on November 5, 1927 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of John Edward and Pauline Matilda (Whitten) Jeffredo.
Graduate in aeronautical engineering, Cal-Aero Technology Institute, 1948; Associate of Arts machine design, Pasadena City College, 1951; graduate in electronics, The Ordnance School United States Army, 1951; postgrad, University of Southern California, 1955-1958; postgrad, Palomar College, 1977-1996; Master of Business Administration, La Jolla U., 1980; Doctor of Philosophy in human relations, La Jolla U., 1984.
Design engineer Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach and Santa Monica, California, 1955-1958. Development engineer Honeywell Ordnance Corporation, Duarte, 1958-1962. Consultant Honeywell Development Labs, Seattle, 1962-1965.
Supervisor mechanical engineering department aerospace division Control Data Corporation, Pasadena, California, 1965-1968. Project engineer Cubic Corporation, San Diego, 1968-1970. Supervisor mechanical engineering department Babcock Electronics Company, Costa Mesa, California, 1970-1972.
Owner, operator Jeffredo Gunsight Company, Fallbrook, 1971-1981. Chief engineer Western Designs, Inc., 1972-1981, executive director, 1981-1988, Chief Executive Officer, 1988-1996, owner, operator, 1981-1987, Western Design Concepts, Inc., 1987-1994. Executive director JXJ, Inc., San Marcos, California, 1981-1988, Chief Executive Officer, from 1988.
Manager Jeffredo Gunsight division, 1981-1994, chief engineer JXJ, Inc., 1987-1992 (merger JXJ, Inc. and Western Design Concepts, Fallbrook, California), principal since 1992, owner, manager, Energy Associates, San Diego, 1982-1986, president Jeffredo International, 1984-1988, founder, Chief Executive Officer John-Victor International, San Marcos, California, Frankfurt, Federal Republican Germany, 1988-1999, The Jeffredo Solution, Fallbrook, since 1996. President, Chief Executive Officer, Maritime Shoshone, Inc., 2000-2001, chairman, Chief Executive Officer, since 2001. Engineering consultant Action Instruments Company, Inc., General Dynamics, Alcyon Corporation, Systems Exploration, Inc.
(all San Diego), Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, Allied-Bendix, San Marcos, Santa Barbara Research, Goleta, California. Board directors Indian World Corporation, JXJ, Inc., John-Victor International. Owner, operator Maritime Shoshone, Inc., since 2000.
Chairman board The Badger Creek Studio, Fallbrook, since 1997.
Active San Diego County Border Tsk Force on Undocumented Aliens, 1979-1980, 81-82, manager, representative Island Gabrieleno Group, NAGPRA repatriation project, since 1995, historian Maritime Shoshone, since 1995, spokesman Island Shoshone, since 1995. Board directors National Geographic Society, 1968. With United States Army, 1951-1953.
Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (senior ), National Rifle Association (life), California Rifle and Pistol Association (life), Society Automotive Engineers, San Diego Zoological Society, The Wilderness Society, Catalina Island Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, Clan Stewart Society of America, Ducks Unlimited, Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians (life), Cova, Catalina Island Museum Society, The Planetary Society, Society for California Archaeology, Skeptics Society, North County Scots.
Son of John Edward and Pauline Matilda (Whitten) J., m. Elma Jean Nesmith(divorced 1958). Children: Joyce Jean Jeffredo Ryder, Michael John.
Married Doris Louise Hinz, (divorced 1980). Children: John Victor, Louise VictoriaJeffredo-Warden. Married Gerda Adelheid Pillich, 1980.