
Vice President, Product Development at STEP Tools, Inc.
Albany, New York Area

Vice President, Product Development at STEP Tools, Inc.
Albany, New York Area
Dr. David Loffredo is a co-founder of STEP Tools, Inc. and serves as Vice President of Product Development. Dr. Loffredo has been developing engineering software that supports the ISO 10303 STEP standard since 1988. He is editor of the AP-238 integrated STEP-NC model and is also Convener of ISO TC184/SC4 Working Group 11, which develops the STEP implementation methods. He has contributed to the harmonization of STEP GD&T efforts, design of the STEP file exchange format, STEP Data Access Interface (SDAI) functional specification, as well as the SDAI C, C++, and Java programming language bindings.
In addition to supervising eleven major releases of the ST-Developer tool suite, he has developed core libraries for managing STEP CAD design data, as well as libraries for validating and driving CNC controls from STEP-NC machining programs.
He has authored technical papers, articles, and training courses on EXPRESS information modeling, the STEP, STEP-NC, and CIS/2 standards, as well as other topics related to product data exchange and engineering database systems.
PhD , Computer Science , 1987 — 1998
BS , Physics, Computer Science , 1982 — 1987