Jane Miller Jones

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Residing In: Monrovia, CA USA
Spouse/Partner: Morris (Mojo)
Homepage: www.whiteoaks.com
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Occupation: Retired NASA Science Educator Astronomer /Sr. Outreach specialist
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I'm on Twitter as @jhjones (Jane Houston Jones) and my astronomy club @Otastro (Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers)

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I am on Facebook as jhjones, but rarely look at FB since 2019

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Retired from NASA Jan 2019. I'm an active amateur astronomer who writes articles for magazines, gives talks about science and astronomy to community groups about the NASA planetary missions I worked on - Cassini to Saturn, Juno to Jupiter, InSight to Mars, since 2003, when I switched from Banking and Finance to a day job at NASA. I am lucky to be able to do a lot of amateur astronomy -- my hobby since 1988 and as my later (started age 50) career dream job with NASA.

Current since January 2019, since 2003: Senior Outreach lead for Planetary missions at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. I developed and implemented informal outreach programs with JPL Education Affairs and NASA Science Mission Directorate. I engaged the public in the excitement of astronomy through volunteer programs, presentations, talks and articles in magazines, and wrote website features. I wrote new mission education/public outreach (E/PO) proposal plans, too! And budgets and proposals and lots of paperwork. I retired from this awesome job Jan 1, 2019.

I was with Bank of America, then consulting at Wells Fargo from 1978-2003. I managed many finance departments, lead product management and project management teams on lots of projects. Before that I was at Bank of Marin while finishing college. I started as a bank proof operator, ended up as a BofA Vice President. Enjoyed it all!

As a banking consultant with Comsys, I wrote securities trading, internet, business banking and telephone banking customer service rep procedures and telephone rep scripts. Lots of fun!

As a Comsys consultant with Pacific Gas and Electric, I tracked project scope on a huge energy utility restructuring project. I estimated project requirement cost and timelines using several interesting project methodologies. I wrote and conducted test phase scripts using a lot of different testing tools. I trained the PG&E staff on project management methodologies, and tracked implementation issues and bugs. Just like banking project and product management, but with different products.

I'm happy to have ended my working career as a NASA science outreach and education specialist for 15 years, and retired from California Institute of Technology (aka Calech) in 2019. Yay retirement!

School Story:

College of Marin 70-74 AA and AS degrees in Anthropology and Banking
San Francisco State University 75-78 BA Business Administration (Finance and Banking majors)

Then Bank of Marin, Independent Bankshares, WestAmerica 1972-1978 Bank of America Vice President 1978-1995

Then Comsys, Inc. bank and utility industry project management consulting (at Wells Fargo Bank and Pacific Gas and Electric) 1995-2003

What Grammar School did you attend in Terra Linda?

Jefferson Davis, Woodrow Wilson Elementary Schools, Denton (TX) 2nd through 7th grade. K-1st & half of 2nd grade, New Orleans, LA

Which Junior High School did you attend?

Miller Creek Middle School, San Rafael 8th grade, Denton Jr. High School, Denton TX 7th grade

Attending Reunion

Yes

If you can't attend the reunion, is there a message to old friends and classmates?

Greetings to my TLHS 1970 classmates from Jane Miller (Jane Houston Jones)

I'm so sorry to miss the party and see everyone at the 50+1 reunion! I retired from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory January 2019 after 30 years in finance in the SF area and then 15 years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. My hubby Mojo retired from Dreamworks Animation two months later after careers in broadcasting, software engineering and development with Disney and other companies. We travelled March 2019 through March 2020 driving across the beautiful USA, and then spanned the globe on land and sea to over a dozen countries, returning home from Prague March 5 2020, where we went right into quarantine! June 2021 we drove 7,500 miles through 30 states in 30 days to visit 2 dozen family members from CA to MN to RI to NY to VA to GA to LA to AZ, returning home on July 6th. In 2022, we cruised to Barcelona teaching bridge. If you want to get in touch with me, send me an email to Jane@whiteoaks.com or find me on instagram @janehoustonjones, or Twitter @jhjones.

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Here I am aboard Google Corp's G5 corporate jet conducting research on the 2008 Aurigid Meteor shower. Google stores their jets at NASA Ames and in return scientists get to use the jets for research. I'm wearing a little medal that a 7 year old Irish boy gave me when I was over there giving a talk in 2006.
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With my sisters Heidi Miller (TLHS 1972) and Wendy Miller Kovaletz (TLHS LAGNAF 1974) and Wendy's daughter Kristen. We all live in So Cal and get together often. Wendy works at SCE as an environmental manager and Heidi owns Heidi's Tight Assets, 3 clothing stores in Laguna Beach,Newport Beach and Carlsbad CA. She also owns the famous Laguna Beach World Newsstand - on PCH.
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