John Francis Mitchell

John Francis Mitchell (January 1, 1928 – June 9, 2009) was an American electronics engineer and president and chief operating officer of Motorola.

He was the driving force behind building quality into engineering,[5] and the establishment of the Motorola University and Six Sigma Institute;[6] and launched the global Iridium satellite constellation.

[12] Mitchell, Motorola's chief of portable communication products and Martin Cooper's[13] boss in 1973, played a key role in advancing the development of handheld mobile telephone equipment.

Mitchell successfully pushed Motorola to develop wireless communication products that would be small enough to use anywhere and participated in the design of the cellular phone.

[18] As a philanthropist and member of IIT's Philip Danforth Armour Society, Mitchell established endowed scholarship funds for the Camras Program, the Leadership Academy and electrical engineering students.

DynaTAC 8000X;1983, $3,995. 13" tall, weighed 30 oz. [ 8 ] First commercial portable cell phone. Dubbed the "Boot," later, a slimmer version was called the "Brick." DynaTAC=Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage. -First Patent Shown Here: [ 9 ] -Mitchell & DynaTAC, 04/03/73 [ 10 ]