People

Dave Cooper

President and Head of Product Development

Genworks International

Mr Cooper founded Genworks International in 1997. It is located in SE Michigan. Prior to that, he worked a number of years for Ford Motor Company in its KBE [Knowledge-Based Engineering] Department in Dearborn, MI.

For the first few years after its founding, Genworks served principally as an independent contract-programmer for area companies, notably General Motors Corp, Visteon, Ford Motor Company, and others, working with their respective KBE tools to perfect and deliver applications. Beginning in the early 2000s, Genworks shifted its attention to creating and developing its own independent KBE tool and accompanying software, efforts which resulted in the development of its "GDL" tool, which stands for General-Purpose Declarative Language (see the layman's Glossary in our website as needed). In a few short years, Genworks, in a measured and deliberate manner, has developed a growing client-base in the U.S, UK, and the European continent.

Mr Cooper holds B.S and M.S degrees in Computer Science, both from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Included with those degrees were grant programs with Japanese universities (Tokyo and Hiroshima) and a year's study in Frieberg, Germany. He is fluent in the German language.

Mr Cooper has spoken and delivered papers at numerous Conferences in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The presentations have focused on KBE issues, the Lisp programming language, and the ICAD Users Group. Below are some representative papers, from 2005 and 2007.

2007 AIAA/ATIO Conference, presented in Belfast, N. Ireland

2005 Huntsville Simulation Conference

DJ Cooper

Vice-President and General Manager

Genworks International

DJ's background is in the law. He performs a managerial role for the company. His legal background is extensive, but not directly relevant here. Briefly, he has been in practice continuously for 46 years, is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, is the past-president of the organized civil defense bar in the State of Michigan, and has been continuously listed in the elite publication Best Lawyers in America since that publication's inception in the late 1980's (less than 1% of practicing attorneys are included in Best Lawyers).

At Genworks, in addition to his managerial role, DJ is a member of the company's Board of Advisors which is comprised of retired KBE Managers from General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Company.

Click here for a recent presentation transcript: A Critique: Knowledge-Based Languages and Where Genworks GDL Fits In