People

Dave Cooper

President and Head of Product Development

Genworks International

Dave 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.

Dave 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.

Dave 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, 2007, and 2008.

2008 SAE Aerospace Conference, presented in Wichita, Kansas

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

2005 Huntsville Simulation Conference

Alan Clark

Senior Software Engineer

Alan has decades of experience in software development using Lisp and many other languages, as well as computational geometry and interfacing with geometry kernels and CAD systems. Alan is currently maintaining and extending the GDL system, including our interfaces to the SMLib geometry kernel and our automated build process, as well as performing customer support correspondence.

KE-works, Delft, The Netherlands

Documentation and Design Consulting

KE-works is a KBE implementation company with roots from the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. KE-works are currently engaged to give the GDL web-based development environment a design overhaul, using state-of-the-art principles from ergonomics and Industrial Design. KE-works are also engaged in enhancing and rewriting much of the GDL tutorials and documentation, in order to make it more approachable for a new generation of users, including students from the TU Delft who use GDL for their Aerospace Engineering coursework.

David Cooper Sr.

Vice-President and General Manager

Mr Cooper's background is in the law. His legal background is extensive, based mainly around Contracts and Insurance law. 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). Mr Cooper has also recently been added to Super Lawyers as a specialist in INSURANCE COVERAGE AND CONTRACTS LAW.

At Genworks, He performs a managerial role for the company, and acts as General Counsel reviewing contracts and in general keeping Genworks' business relationships running smoothly.

Kai Yan Cooper

(intern) Accounts Manager and Licensing Administrator

Kai has recently joined Genworks as an intern, and will be taking care of bookkeeping, accounts, and license tracking for the GDL product. Kai will also act as a language liaison for Genworks activities in the Chinese mainland. Ms Cooper studied English language at Changchun University in China, obtained a Master's Degree in Accounting from Walsh College in Troy, Michigan, and worked for several years as a Financial Analyst at a global manufacturing firm.