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Dr. Martin Hardwick
President and CEO
Dr. Martin Hardwick founded and incorporated STEP Tools, Inc.
in 1991. Dr. Hardwick supervises the Model Driven Intelligent
Control of Manufacturing program, known as the "Super
Model" Project, which is supported by an Advanced Technology
Program (ATP) Award issued by the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST). This program is focused on developing
STEP-NC, a breakthrough technology for manufacturing. Hardwick
is also a Professor of Computer Science at the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and is a Member of
the US Product Data Association. Martin has authored numerous
papers and articles on engineering database systems, STEP,
PDES, and concurrent engineering. He has traveled internationally
to present numerous public lectures on these topics. Dr. Hardwick
is the team leader of the STEP Manufacturing group. He is
currently working on two government projects: 1) the Harvest
program from the National Shipbuilding Research Program, and
the 2) WSME (Web-based Smart Modeling Environment) project
for the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command.
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Dr. Dave Loffredo
Vice President of Product Development
Dr. David Loffredo is a co-founder of STEP Tools, Inc. and
serves as Vice President of Product Development. Dr. Loffredo
has been developing software that supports the ISO 10303 STEP
standard since 1988. He is currently developing the AP-238
integrated STEP-NC model. Loffredo is also Convenor
of ISO TC184/SC4 Working Group 11, which develops the STEP
implementation methods. He has contributed to the design
of the STEP Data Access Interface (SDAI) functional specification,
SDAI C, C++, and Java programming language bindings, as well
as the STEP file exchange format. Dr. Loffredo received PhD
and Master of Science degrees from Rensselaer, and Bachelor
of Science degrees in Physics and Computer Science from the
State University of New York. He has authored various technical
papers and articles on EXPRESS, STEP, STEP-NC, concurrent
engineering, product data exchange, and engineering database
systems.
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