People

Richard Latty
Director of Product Development at Pipersoft. He has over 32 years experience in the design and development of computer systems and software. Major projects included software for simulating satellite systems (NASA) and automated digital image interpretation as well as retail transaction processing systems. He designed the CENTRIC system for automating the securitization and risk mitigation for all of the U.S. embassies around the world. He designed the distributed system used for automating and normalizing the USDA inspection of all fruits and vegetables (imports and domestic), the automation of managing the participants in the Certified Organic program and the system used by GSA to manage the clearance process on more than 16,000 government personnel. He engineered and built the system to automate the Learning for Life centers of the US Postal Service, among many others.

Prior to his work at Pipersoft, Rick worked at NASA/Ames and NASA/Goddard on the Landsat Thematic Mapper mission. He worked at University of Massachusetts in automated image intepretation. He was co-founder, CTO and president at Solutions Engineering (recognized as the 224th fastest growing technology company in the US in 1996). He worked as the CTO and Director of Product Development at Idocuments. He is a member of numerous scientific, engineering and honorary societies. He is a graduate of University of Florida and Purdue University, has published 23 scientific articles and has presented at numerous symposia. He is also a pilot.

Paul Rupert
Chief Flexibility Advisor. He is President of Washington, DC-based Rupert & Company. He combines thirty-five years' general management, consulting, coaching, training and research experience with expertise in the development of flexible and respectful leadership skills and online systems. Paul started managing flexibly with his first start-up in 1972. He pioneered the development of explicitly business-based approaches and tools for creating the flexible workplace.
In his previous work as Associate Director of New Ways to Work and Flexibility Practice Leader of WFD Consulting, he directed national flexibility advocacy efforts and served a broad and distinguished client list of more than a hundred companies ranging from Aetna and AOL to Wal-Mart and Xerox. Mr. Rupert speaks widely about organizational flexibility and is quoted regularly in the national media such as the Wall Street Journal, ABC World News, CBS News, NPR, Marketplace and Newsweek. He is a graduate of Stanford University.

Piperspoft Development Team
The development team at Pipersoft is a diverse group of professionals with the education, work experience and enthusiasm in software development required for building great systems. We have the knowledge and experience to select and deploy the best technologies available to provide the greatest capabilities. We have a long history of building appliance-grade products and services rich in features that resolve all of the most important issues and provide the user with the tools required to produce what they need. We have the experience to grow and evolve these systems effectively over time as the needs of our clients evolve and the pressures on them change. We constantly look to other systems that offer complimentary services that could be logically linked to our systems to afford leaps in client capability and benefits. We are driven by our clients' needs and challenges, not by fads or bleeding-edge technologies in the IT world. These are the traits of the team members - from project managers, designers, database architects, programmers, testers, systems
technicians and support.