As CENATEK's CEO, Jason Caulkins is leading the company toward a new era of high-speed data-access and storage in the computer industry. Caulkins has more than 10 years of project management experience in government, municipal and private engineering assignments. Prior to forming CENATEK, he was the lead engineer for many high-profile NASA projects including the 20G Centrifuge control system, the Vertical Motion Flight Simulator digital control system, and the HPADS data acquisition system. All of these projects were conducted at the NASA-Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Caulkins has also served as the lead engineer on numerous networking and communication systems, including high-speed fiber optic links for inter-campus and inter-facility communications for various public, private and municipal projects.
Caulkins graduated with honors from California State University at Chico with bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and German. Caulkins also studied abroad at the Universität Tübingen , Germany. He earned an "Outstanding Service Award" from IEEE International in 1997.