| D-Three Software,
Inc. Dynamic Design and Development The Management Team Kenneth Strait , President CEO/Apparel Design ExpertB.A., marketing magna cum laude, University of Cincinnati, 1980 Mr. Strait has worked in the apparel and footwear industry for 22 years, with a very broad scope of types and sizes of businesses including those as large as the $11 billion Federated Department Stores (which includes Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, Rich’s, Lazarus, Burdines, and Filene’s), and those as small as Pantropic, a $2 million accessory company. In his various positions as buyer, product line manager, divisional or vice president, Mr. Strait’s common thread has been a high success rate at finding ways to grow both top line revenues and bottom line profits. His apparel and footwear track record includes: heading the successful apparel and footwear start-up team for L.L.Bean Traveler, which grew from concept into a profitable $30 million business in less than three years; turning around a $100 million money-losing division at Sportmart, which was the second largest big box sporting goods company in the country at the time; and growing a fledgling catalog and specialty store business at Gander Mountain Inc. from $40 million to over $100 million in less than two years. With Strait Profit Solutions, Inc. Mr. Strait has
been involved with all phases of product development including overseas
and domestic factory travel. He has consulted in merchandising, fabric and
product development, licensing negotiations, e-commerce execution, catalog
start-up, software purchasing, and sales and marketing strategies. Donald W. Rahmlow,
Chief Operating Officer Mr. Rahmlow has served in an advisory capacity to the AeroHydro management team since late 1997. Prior to this, he served as Senior Vice-President and Chief Technologist for Unimation Communications Corp., a high-tech startup, where he crafted core business and technical strategies to deal with many of the same issues D-Three faces as it seeks to develop its business. He possesses an excellent understanding of the process of software product design and development, gained as Director of Custom Programming at JD Edwards and Company (NASDAQ: JDEC). Mr. Rahmlow has supervised information technology staffs performing large-scale software implementation projects while Director of Information Technology for Flow International Corp. (NASDAQ: FLOW, and before that as Director of Corporate Information Systems for American Trading and Production Corp., a $1 billion privately held company headquartered in Maryland. He developed a well-rounded complement of business
management skills during a series of line management assignments with
Procter and Gamble in the late 1970s where he supervised up to 50
employees and annual budgets in excess of $50M. John S. Letcher, Jr.,
RG Inventor/Senior Software Engineer Dr. Letcher has pioneered many applications of computers in the design of boats and ships, including hull surface definition, fairing and lofting; hydrostatic and hydrodynamic analysis; sailing yacht performance prediction; aeroelasticity of sails; optimal routing; optimal design; and simulation-based design. He was the Senior Scientist for the design team of Stars & Stripes, the America’s Cup winner in 1987, and a member of design teams for the 1988 Cup defense and for America’s Cup contenders in 1992 and 2002. He also has made fundamental contributions to aeronautical engineering, in particular to computational methods for prediction of induced drag. Dr. Letcher has been the chairman and principal shareholder of AeroHydro, Inc. since its incorporation in 1987. He is the principal originator of Relational Geometry and AeroHydro’s RGKernel, MultiSurf, SurfaceWorks, and Flattener software products, and is a major participant in their continuing development. Dr. Letcher is the holder of 10 patents on relational geometry and surface flattening technology. He has held faculty appointments at the Universities
of Florida, Michigan, and Washington, as well as Colorado State
University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer, a Life Member of the
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (recipient of Admiral E.
L. Cochrane Award, 1987), and an Associate Fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Michael Shook, Chief
Technology Officer Prior to joining AeroHydro in 1987, Mr. Shook spent 17 years in a variety of positions in the information technology field, gaining experience in software engineering, systems design and analysis, and software market analysis. While at AeroHydro, he gained expertise in CAD technology, the CAD marketplace and RGKernel and related technologies. Mr. Shook positioned, planned, and executed entry of the company’s software product SurfaceWorks into the mechanical CAD marketplace in 1998. Beyond managing day-to-day operations, Mr. Shook is responsible for charting the company’s course within the ever-changing technological landscape. This includes surveying emerging technologies for two key purposes: 1) identification of technologies that will combine synergistically with AeroHydro’s technologies and 2) identification of technologies that will improve AeroHydro’s productivity. Mr. Shook brings to this project expertise in market
research and analysis, competitive research and analysis, and software
product architecture and design, as well as skill at both finding and
hiring talented, motivated individuals to build the company’s future,
and negotiating partnerships, alliances and joint ventures. John M. Brown,
Chief Financial Officer Mr. Brown has over 20 years of experience with AeroHydro as a software engineer, product manager, personnel manager, and chief financial officer. He provides all accounting functions for AeroHydro including tax filings, and works with the company attorney on all governance issues. As personnel manager, Mr. Brown assures compliance with all labor law requirements; and has developed a unique fringe benefit program that provides equitable benefits to all employees regardless of family situation. Over the past five years he also has implemented sophisticated cost accounting systems to comply with a major Navy subcontract and an Army SBIR Phase 2 award. He is a life member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, a long-time member and past conference presenter of the Maine Software Developers Association, and a Maine Technology Institute Information Technology board member since that group’s inception. |
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