Alpine gets technical in new role

CoCreate Software has created a new position, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), to guide its global technology development strategy.

CoCreate Software has created a new position, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), to guide its global technology development strategy.

John Alpine, formerly Director of Research and Development for CoCreate's collaborative design software, was named to fill the position.

The appointment will be effective immediately.

"John has been tracking the emergence of new technologies.

Now that these technologies have matured and can be easily deployed, we felt it was time to integrate them into our product offerings", said William M Gascoigne, CoCreate CEO.

"John has strong technical grounding in both software and engineering.

With his long history of developing successful engineering products, he is the ideal person to guide this process".

Alpine is taking a pragmatic approach to his new duties.

"A CTO should be hands-on", he said.

"I won't be sitting at my desk making pretty slides about strategies that never get off the ground.

I'm here to drive our technology and product strategy in a way that produces tangible, short term results for our customers".

Through his work with CoCreate Software, Hewlett-Packard Company, and EEsof, Alpine has more than 16 years of experience at directing software development across globally dispersed teams.

Before coming to CoCreate, he directed research and development for Hewlett-Packard's Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) framework and design environment section.

Prior to this, he managed the simulator frameworks group for EEsof.

Alpine gained his engineering experience with Hughes Aircraft, where he spent six years as an engineer in electronics design.

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