Our Team
John King
John got an early start with all things technical due to having a father who was an electrical engineer. A child master of taking things apart and rebuilding them, John soon branched into remote control as well. Some of his projects included building an "armchair remote" for his dad's record player (linear tracking and infrared track identification, from DAK), and having a remote control watch (also DAK) that he pretended was a voice control system. In Junior High, John started learning to write programs on a TRS80 Model III (read geek), given to him by his dad. John's senior project in college was to build an RS232 computer interface for an x-ray goniometer.
After graduating from college with a Physics degree, John soon went to work for an AV company as a bench tech. One day, John's company, being shorthanded, sent John to troubleshoot a large control system. His boss intended for John to call tech support for help. Not knowing this, John analyzed the code on his own, and soon had the system up and running. On that day, John graduated from bench tech to programmer, and has never looked back.
Today, fourteen years after his first foray into AV programming, John is trusted by many companies and end users to meet their control system programming needs. A talented designer and programmer, he’s known for his pie-making skills and his big fluffy dog. John is married to a wonderful wife, Ginny, and is involved at his church, with both technical and missions departments.
David Ives
David knew from the 7th grade that he was going to follow in his grandfather's footsteps to become an Electrical Engineer. Graduating from the same college (Oklahoma State University) with a Masters Degree in EE, David went on to join Harrison Systems as a design engineer. David learned of Harrison through his summer job working for Doug Brown Enterprises in Tulsa Oklahoma as an audio systems installer.
David spent 20 years at Harrison, at first programming, concepting and designing large format recording consoles for the broadcast, live, music recording and film re-recording industries. Early in his career at Harrison, he was offered a management role and continued in management for the rest of his tenure at Harrison. However, even in management, he always kept a hand in the technical aspects of the company. Eventually, he was forced to manage exclusively, which, while challenging, deprived him of the hands-on technical experience that he loved.
After leaving Harrison, David joined John at The King's Controls in May of 2008. And in doing so, David has found a way to combine his love of audio (and now video) with hardware and software. Nirvana!
David is married to Renee and together, they have six children, Nathan, Jonathan, Sam, Sweet Margaret Ruth, Jed and Rachel. When not programming or playing with children, David is involved in playing music and his church.
Jim Boatwright
Jim was inspired by his father's career at NASA to begin programming on a TRS80 while in high school. Also like his father, he graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He then went on to complete a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. While in Nashville, Jim met John and a lifelong friendship was born.
Jim went to work for a small software firm in Franklin, TN and taught himself C, Scheme, and a proprietary C++ like language. He went on to become the lead application developer for this small company. He later moved to a sister company and worked as the lead applications developer focused on the needs of their largest client. As much as he loved the challenges and personal aspects of working with this client, the opportunity to work with John was one that Jim could not pass up.
Jim is an avid runner who has competed in many marathons, including Boston. Jim has a great passion for the outdoors and long distance hiking. He has twice completed a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail as well as hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada.
