Jim Mikola, VP of Product Engineering
Jim Mikola is Vice President of Product Engineering at Altia, where he leads the company’s product strategy, software development and engineering execution. Jim works closely with Altia’s engineering, product and leadership teams to drive innovation across the company’s embedded GUI solutions, ensuring customers can bring high-performance, production-ready user experiences to market quickly and efficiently. [altia.com]
A longtime technical leader at Altia, Jim provides expertise and guidance across all aspects of product development, including embedded software architecture, design, implementation, quality and performance. He also plays a key role in recruiting, mentoring and developing Altia’s world-class engineering organization.
During his time at Altia, Jim has contributed significantly to the company’s technology portfolio, creating many of Altia’s DeepScreen targets and developing key innovations including Font Modules, Altia Safety Monitor, Altia Cloud components, Altia Launcher and the latest Altia Design editor. He has collaborated closely with ecosystem partners including Infineon, NXP, QNX, Renesas, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments, as well as leading customers worldwide.
Jim came to Altia from Visteon Corporation, where he was an expert in Human-Machine Interface software development using automated code-generation tools like Altia and Stateflow®. He has also worked at Motorola, as a team leader for Automotive Concepts; at General Motors, as a Product Release Engineer; and at Westinghouse, as a Naval Nuclear Power Engineer.
Jim received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He is also a graduate of the Naval Nuclear Power Engineer Program, where he successfully completed an intensive, multi-stage training on nuclear power plant systems and emergency response.
