Dr. Perry Alexander, Founder and Chief Technical Officer
Dr. Perry Alexander, co-designer of the Rosetta specification language and company founder, currently serves as Cadstone's CTO. As Chief Technical Officer, Dr. Alexander leads the development of Cadstone's tools and services. Dr. Alexander currently serves as the chair of the IEEE DASC Rosetta Study Group and is the author of System Level Design using Rosetta. Dr. Alexander is also a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and Director of the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center's Computer Systems Design Laboratory at The University of Kansas. His research interests include system-level modeling, design languages, heterogeneous specification, language semantics, and embedded systems.
Dr. Alexander received the BSEE and BSCS in 1986, the MSEE in 1988, and the PhD in 1992 all from The University of Kansas. From September 1992 through July 1999 he was a faculty member and director of The Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Laboratory in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science department at The University of Cincinnati. During his tenure at The University of Cincinnati, Dr. Alexander was involved in numerous funded research activities and was Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on the COMET (DARPA), HEPE (DARPA), CEENSS (Air Force), SOCCER (DARPA), and POMT (Air Force) efforts. Since joining the University of Kansas in 1999, he has been Principal Investigator on the SLDL (AFRL), SOCCER (DARPA), MoBIES (DARPA), EHS (NSF), NeTS (NSF), GENISYS (NASA), eCIS (NASA) and CART (Navair) projects. He is the chief architect of the Rosetta system specification language and author of System-Level Design using Rosetta.
Dr. Alexander has published over 100 refereed research papers and has presented numerous invited presentations. He has won 15 teaching awards and was named a Kemper Teaching Fellow and the ASEE's Midwest Region Teacher of the Year in 2003. He is a Senior Member of ACM, Sigma Xi, AAAI and a Senior Member of IEEE where he served as Chair of the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems Engineering Technical Committee.
Mr. Matt McClorey, Chief Executive Officer
As Chief Executive Officer, Mr. McClorey (“McClorey”) leads the company’s business development efforts and manages the day-to-day operations. He brings to Cadstone numerous years of experience working with a variety of high-technology start-up companies. McClorey also serves as President and CEO of the Lawrence Regional Technology Center where he is responsible for managing all facets of the incubator’s operations with a particular focus on providing “hands-on” business development and management services to high-technology start-up companies. Some of the areas in which he assists companies include corporate formation, market assessment, strategic planning, early stage capital fundraising, operations management, financial management and sales. Since McClorey joined LRTC, the center’s clients have raised over $22,000,000 and created over 75 net jobs with an average salary of almost $59,000.
Prior to joining LRTC, McClorey was the Vice President of Business Development and Portfolio Management for the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC), where he evaluated start-up technology companies for seed capital investments, managed a multi-million dollar portfolio of high-technology debt and equity investments, negotiated investment agreements and provided management consulting services to portfolio companies. During his time at KTEC and LRTC, McClorey has worked directly with over 25 start-up companies.
McClorey came to KTEC from Deloitte Consulting, where he was employed as a senior consultant in the communications practice. While at Deloitte, he worked primarily with Fortune 500 companies providing strategy and information technology consulting services. McClorey earned his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Kansas and his B.A. in Business from Benedictine College.
Employment Opportunities
Cadstone is seeking invidiuals interested in development of language processing tools including parsers, type checkers, and transformation systems, Knowledge of compiler development tools such as ANTLR and Parsec and techniques for developing language interpreters is mandatory. A strong background in discrete mathematics and formal methods is also useful. Development experience using functional languages such as Scheme, Common Lisp or Haskell is strongly desired.
Cadstone is located in Lawrence, KS just 20 miles west of Kansas City. Lawrence is a classic college town and has been rated as the #1 small arts city in the US and in the top 10 small cities in the US. Home to The University of Kansas, Lawrence enjoys excellent public and private schools as well as active and vital art and music scenes. The average commute time of a Cadstone employee is 5 minutes on a heavy traffic day.