About Us

For Biographies of varying lengths, please see The God Patent Press Kit.

A brilliant and talented speaker with 1000s of hours speaking experience in auditoriums, lecture halls, art galleries, bars, and in the classroom addressing professionals in transition, retirees, junior high to university students, lovers of literature, scientists and engineers, attorneys and shaman, ascending and well established authors, . . .

A natural born teacher who communicates complicated subjects clearly to any age group at the appropriate level of literary, cultural and mathematical sophistication.

Brings a thorough understanding of literary craft, storytelling acumen, event organization, editorial prowess, business practice, marketing, economics, electrodynamics, optics, mathematics, statistics, quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, philosophy, and relativity to every project.

Resume:

• Author of The God Patent, the first debut novel to emerge from the new paradigm of publishing - 13 straight weeks in the top ten most-read e-novels at scribd.com, #4 all time. Now in print - www.TheGodPatent.com
• Guided hundreds of professionals through tenuous career transitions: from layoff to startup.
• Helped thousands of students choose their careers and help them pave the way to fulfilling their greatest potential.
• Performed two thirty-five city speaking tours across the United States plus a few stops in Europe, giving full day training seminars to the engineers who create our nation’s wealth.
• Coproducer and MC of InsideStoryTime - San Francisco’s greatest truly literary reading series.
• Curated and produced Litquake (San Francisco’s Literary Festival) intellectual literary events: “Where the Mind Meets the Brain” featuring a philosopher, a neurologist, a psychologist, and a noetic scientist; “Science and Religion” featuring a Nobel Prize winning physicist, a rabbi, a priest and a biologist.
• Producer and MC of Litquake Presents: Barely Published Authors - 25% of featured writers have received book deals within 2 years of appearance.
• Contributed story to SF Chronicle bestseller Runnin’ on Empty.
• Delivered Web Seminars for Tektronix customer education efforts – attendance of 15,000 with 87% advocacy leading to sales of over $150M.
• Wrote and presented an NIST-caliber white paper that answered NoiseCom’s customer doubts – their featured event for 2007.
• Led a high-tech commando team of engineers and scientists to determine the most accurate jitter techniques and distinguish them in the market through an internationally broadcast web-seminar, two white papers, three magazine articles, and three conference papers, accounted for sale over $100M.
• Introduced a new marketing concept – midway through a ten-minute presentation, Agilent SVP picked up the phone and scheduled a meeting with his marketing team who took the concept and generated $4.5M in quotes in six months.
• Led development of a new wireless-web broadcast information delivery technology including the protocol, software, requirement specification, error correction and a proprietary modem technology.
• Devised new signal processing techniques to separate multiple signals and noise. Resulted in the discovery of a new state of matter, precision measurements of rare processes, new techniques for signal identification and characterization of particle physics processes.
• Solved a satellite telemetry problem and led the implementation of precise satellite positioning technology.
• Collaborated on the discovery of the Top Quark with the D-Zero collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
• Made the most accurate measurements in the world of rare decays of the b-quark.
• Introduced new university courses curricula and degree programs: Computational Physics and Physics/pre-med.
• Discovered a new type of matter, the R(1525), a quark-anti-quark resonance including a “valence gluon.”
• Patented three techniques for separating signal and noise and wireless delivery of information.

Employment History:

In every position he has held, Ransom’s writing and speaking skills have propelled his success. In 2005, he took those talents from science and engineering to the mainstream.

2005-Present     Ransom’s Notes, Petaluma CA

Writer • Physicist • Public Speaker

2000-2005          Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Rosa California/Richardson Texas

• 2004-2005    Product Marketing Manager/Technical Marketing Engineer
• 2002-2004    Applied Electrodynamics Physicist
• 2000-2002    Applied Lightwave Scientist

1999-2000          Enhanced Messaging Systems, Southlake Texas

• Staff Engineer-Scientist & Director of Advanced Technology

1993-1999           University of Texas at Arlington

• January-July 1999, Associate Professor of Physics (tenured)
• 1993-1999, Assistant Professor of Physics

Research:

• ATLAS experiment, European Center for Particle Physics (CERN), Geneva Switzerland
• D-Zero experiment, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia Ill
• Solenoid Detector Collaboration, Superconducting Super Collider, Waxahachie TX

1990-1993    University of Florida

• Research Associate in Computational and Experimental Particle Physics
• Cornell Electron Storage Ring, Cleo-II collaboration, Ithaca NY

1985-1990    University of California, Santa Barbara

• Research Assistant in Experimental Particle Physics
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, TPC-Two-Gamma Collaboration, Menlo Park CA
• Teaching Assistant - quantum physics, mechanics, electromagnetism, general physics, ...

1980-1984

• University of California, San Diego: Teaching Assistant - general physics.
• Howard’s Shell, Walnut Creek: pump jockey.

Before 1980

• The Railroad Station, Walnut Creek CA (fine dining): Chef’s assistant, waiter, busboy.
• Jack In the Box, Concord CA (not as fine dining): burger flipper, fry dunker, cashier, waiter.
• Monument Printing Co., Pleasant Hill CA: printer’s assistant, cutting, binding, delivery.
• Steroid Doug’s Landscape Co., Lafayette CA: don’t want to talk about it.
• Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, CA: newspaper delivery.

Education:

1990     Ph.D. Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Dissertation: The p+p-p0p0 Final State in Two Photon Physics
• Named the James Chadwick Scholar of the 1989 Ettore Majorana International School of Sub-Nuclear Physics, Erice, Sicily, Italy

1984     B.S. Physics (cum laude), University of California, San Diego

• 1982-1983, University of Birmingham, England, Education Abroad Program

1980     Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek CA

Like a dragonfly, darting from task to task and mastering every  one.