Patrick Engel Tapped to Lead Architecture Development

August 24, 2004 - Eugene Oregon - SmartCAMcnc, exclusive developers of SmartCAM, announced today that Patrick Engel has been named Senior Architect for the software company.

Engel will manage the company's suite of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software as the company reintroduces SmartCAM to the manufacturing industry.

He joins SmartCAMcnc with 22 years experience developing CNC (computer numeric control) manufacturing software including seven years leading the Point Control / CAMAX / SDRC architecture development group.

"Patrick fills a critical need for our architecture development team. There may be no greater authority on the strengths of the current SmartCAM construction; there is no one I would prefer to see lead our efforts to build on those strengths with the forthcoming releases of SmartCAM,” said Gregg Olson, president and founder of SmartCAMcnc. "With his impressive background in CNC and CAM development, Patrick is better suited for guiding the future design of SmartCAM than anyone I can think of. He is a serious talent and an extremely important hire for us."

Engel has previously held senior research engineering positions at Battelle Memorial Institute where he oversaw the complete redesign of the surface machining module, CNC code generation module and general post processor; and at D.P. Technologies where he designed and implemented the custom post processing software for the Esprit computer-aided manufacturing product line.