My name is Jim Griffith, Sunnyvale Council Member occupying Seat 3. I was elected in 2009, to serve a term from 2010 through 2013. Prior to my election, I served on the Board of Library Trustees for five years, four years as Board Chair. I am an active member of Sunnyvale Cool Cities and a lifetime member of the Sunnyvale Historical Society and Sunnyvale’s Western Philatelic Library.
I currently serve Sunnyvale as
- SMaRT Station Cities Representative (serving Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and Palo Alto) on the Santa Clara County Recycling and Waste Reduction Commission (RWRC)
- Sunnyvale Representative on the Valley Transportation Authority’s Policy Advisory Committee (VTA PAC)
- Sunnyvale Alternate on the Grand Boulevard Task Force
- Sunnyvale Representative on the Silicon Valley Library System’s System Advisory Board (SVLS SAB)
I am a Bay Area native, and I moved to Sunnyvale after graduating from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in mathematics applied to computer science. I’ve been a Sunnyvale homeowner since 1997. I live in the Morse Park Neighborhood Association, in the recently-completed industry-to-residential zoned area, and I am a member of the Danbury Place Homeowners Association.
Professionally, I am an engineering manager and lead engineer for deCarta Inc., a small company in downtown San Jose. We design and sell location-based software and services, such as server software for web-based digital mapping and routing, embedded software for devices such as in-car and hand-held navigation systems, and software for maps on phones.
In my free time, I am a hard-core philatelist, and my collection can be seen here. I played soccer for about twenty-five years, primarily as keeper and right full, before my knees recently told me that they’d had enough.
When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness: when these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and its government. – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
Principles only mean something if you stick to them when they’re inconvenient – The Contender