The LPS Team
David M. Butler, PhD
President and founder
Dave has a PhD in Physics and more than 30 years experience in developing "systems for processing scientific data" in a wide range of application areas. His work has emphasized research and development in data models for scientific computing, software architecture, and programming in C++ and a variety of other languages.
Dave maintains membership in ACM, IEEE Computer Society, SIAM, APS, PATCA, and LinkedIn.
William E. Mason, Jr, PhD
Senior Scientist
Bill has a PhD in Civil Engineering and more than 30 years experience developing scientific applications, especially finite element analysis packages. He has extensive experience in object-oriented design and programming in numerous languages, especially C++. His previous employment includes faculty member at the University of California, Davis and the University of Utah, research scientist at Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Labs, and industrial consultant.
Keith A. Bordonaro
Senior Programmer
Keith has a BS in Physics and 15 years developing scientific applications. His work has emphasized C++ programming, object-oriented design, integration of scientific computing into work flows, visualization, and web programming.
James E. Butler
Senior Programmer
Jim has an AS with an emphasis on mathematics and 20 years experience in software development. His focus has been software build systems, source code control and release management, systems administration and network security, along with visualization and C++ programming.
