FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Geomagic Announces the Appointment of Linda Lokay as Director of Engineering
Brings 15 years of MCAD product development experience
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., November 1, 1999 - Geomagic, Inc. announced today that Linda Lokay has joined the company as director of engineering, and will manage all of the company's research and development activities. Linda brings 15 years of product development experience in the mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) industry to Geomagic.
“Linda is the ideal choice to lead our engineering team,” said Geomagic Chief Technical Officer Ping Fu. “She has solid industry and management experience that will help us to build a world class technical team and deliver the best software products.”
Prior to joining Geomagic, Linda was managing director at SolidWorks Corp., where she was responsible for UK subsidiary SolidWorks R&D Ltd. and jointly responsible for R&D activities for the overall company. Prior to that, Linda was a director of development at Parametric Technology Corp. and a product manager at Computervision Corp. Linda holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Geomagic creates 3D information technology solutions for manufacturing and graphics enterprises, resulting in dramatic reductions in time-to-market and significant cost savings. The company's software represents the industry's only complete solution for taking points to polygons to NURBS, and enables the rapid creation of production quality digital models using data created in other software packages or gathered by scanning existing objects. Fueled by the mathematical research of world-renowned computational geometry expert Herbert Edelsbrunner, Geomagic is creating a vision of the applications and implications of 3D in business and society. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Research Triangle Park, NC.
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