Bob Lacatena
Bob Lacatena is the software architect for the delivery of Insight Experience's simulations. He is responsible for the ongoing successful deployment of simulations to facilitators and customers as well as improving the designer, facilitator, and customer experience in all technical facets of the process. He maintains, from an IT perspective, the stability of the business and aspects of IE’s software — with the goal of positioning IE for more rapid, effective, and versatile product development and deployment.
Bob has 50 years of programming experience, 45 of that in a professional capacity. In those years, he served primarily as an independent consultant, business analyst, developer, software architect, and team leader. He was also a staff manager, IT strategist and, most recently, CTO for a successful life sciences company. He has participated in more than two dozen successful software development projects in his career, almost always as the team lead, while at the same time making substantive hands-on contributions in the areas of architecture, coding, documentation, training, and deployment.
Previously, Bob worked at GQ Life Sciences and Scholastic Corporation, and he has acted as a consultant for a host of other companies. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science at Northwestern University. Since then he has engaged in extensive studies of such diverse topics as computer graphics, software syntax, parsing and compilation, sequence search algorithms, neural networks, and machine learning.