Formerly, Richard was Chief Scientist for modeling products at Borland Software .. Corporation where he managed both open .. source and commercial product development Richard represented Borland on the Eclipse Board of Directors, Planning and Architecture Councils, co-founded the top-level Eclipse Modeling Project. Richard is author of the book, “Eclipse Modeling Project, a Domain-Specific Language Toolkit.” Prior to Borland, Richard worked at TogetherSoft, Ariba, and Andersen Consulting. Richard holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering degree from the University of Connecticut. He was a reactor operator in the U.S. Navy before entering his career in software.