ODA Announces Chief Technical Officer

The Open Design Alliance (ODA) announces Chief Technical Officer Neil Peterson joins the ODA leadership team. Formalizing Mr. Peterson as part of the leadership team is another step that the ODA is executing to increase value delivered to its membership.

As Chief Technical Officer, Mr. Peterson is responsible for product development within the ODA. In addition to being a natural leader within the organization, Mr. Peterson has valuable technical perspective gained from years of development work. He has been involved with DWGdirect since its inception, and under his watch DWGdirect has matured into a highly respected and widely used product. When asked about recent changes in the ODA, Mr. Peterson said, “I’m very pleased with the progress that we’ve made during the last nine months. Our DWGdirect team has added version 2.4 to its long streak of successful releases. We have doubled the size of our DGNdirect development team, and the next major DGNdirect release will leverage DWGdirect technology. In addition, recent infrastructure improvements have given us the strongest development base that I’ve seen during my eight years with the ODA.”

Mr. Peterson presented plans to the ODA Board of Directors earlier this year for continuing to strengthen the ODA’s products and infrastructure. Mr. Peterson and the ODA technical teams have already begun delivering on these plans with the July release of DWGdirect 2.4 and the announcement of DGNdirect 1.0 for fourth quarter 2007.

When asked about Mr. Peterson joining the ODA leadership team, Arnold van der Weide, President of the Open Design Alliance said, “Neil’s technical expertise coupled with his technical leadership and natural ability to work with teams to deliver high-quality software makes him a tremendous asset to our organization. He forms an integral part of carrying our upward momentum towards further strengthening our CAD technology that we deliver to members.”

The ODA has a long-standing commitment to deliver open solutions for DWG and DGN formats and is dedicated to delivering high-performing CAD technology to a growing membership of recognized companies within the CAD industry.