Mark Devon graduated from University of Michigan BSEE ’78 and MSEE ’80. He has worked as a HW/RF engineer at many of the Silicon Valley companies during this time such as Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Broadcom as well as various startups and consulting jobs. He began with wired data such as Ethernet and token ring moving on to wireless devices following the popularization of frequency hoppers in the 90s and then Wifi in the 2000s. One start up in particular, Silverspring Networks, shipped 25 million devices (the dreaded PG&E smartmeter) with his design in North America and Australia using the 900MHz frequency hopper. He has 10 patents (he thinks).

Pyrotechnically, Mr Devon joined the PGI in 1991 and the WPA in 1992. He began shooting shows with San Diego fireworks in the Bay Area and went on doing shows with Pyro Spectaculars for the next 25 years including SF Giants, Oakland A’s, SJ Giants and various birthday parties and weddings. Due to some wine tasting episodes gone wrong at some of the early WPA he became the poet laureate of the WPA and threatens to publish more if you won’t buy his firing system.