Full Biography for Tim Risch

Candidate for
Council Member; City of Sunnyvale; Seat 7

15-year Sunnyvale Resident and California Native

Education:

• 1983, M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.
• 1980, B.S. (cum laude), Engineering, Major: Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles. Recipient of Outstanding UCLA Engineering Undergraduate Award in 1980.

• 1983 to Present, Aerotherm Corporation, Program Manager and Member of the Technical Staff, Heat Transfer and Thermochemistry

• Sunnyvale Downtown Resource Team 1998-Present
• Sunnyvale Public Safety Volunteer 1999
• Community Advisory Committee for Moffett Federal Airfield 1996-1997
• City of Sunnyvale Land Use and Transportation Study Group 1997
• Citizens Coalition For Traffic Relief, Computer System Coordinator 1996
• City of Sunnyvale Telecommunications Study Group 1995
• Sunnyvale Bicycle Advisory Committee, Chairman and Member, 1992-1996
• National Wind Tunnel Committee, 1995-1996
• Able Cable Productions, 1990-Present
• Leadership Sunnyvale, Class of 1992, Volunteer 1991-Present
• Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce, 1994-Present
• Friends of NASA at Moffett (FONAM), 1992
• Communities Organized to Save the Moffett Complex (COSMC) 1995-1998
• Stanford University Blood Bank, Blood Drive Coordinator, 1989-1995
• Red Cross, Blood Drive Coordinator, 1989-1995
• Faith in Action, 1991-1995
• Emergency Housing Consortium, 1991-1995
• Habitat for Humanity, 1990-1991, 1997
• Second Harvest Food Bank, 1996-Present

• Registered California Professional Chemical Engineer, Certificate No. 4575

• 1996 Nominee for Sunnyvale Distinguished Citizen of the Year
• 1980 Outstanding UCLA Engineering Undergraduate Award