ODA Appoints Sergey Vishnevetsky as Director of Development

ODA_logoPHOENIX, AZ, Aug 3, 2015 – Open Design Alliance (ODA) today announced the appointment of Sergey Vishnevetsky as its new director of development.

Vishnevetsky joined the ODA in 2002 as a software developer and was involved in the early stages of the Teigha platform, before its first release. His ability to solve engineering problems along with his technical knowledge and experience led to his appointment as development manager in 2013.

080315_SergeyVishnevetsky

(picture from LinkedIn)

“I have gained great satisfaction from addressing complex development tasks and enabling the ODA to bring the Teigha project from concept through to a mature and widely used product,” he said. “I enjoy the fact that my job demands creative vision as well as organizational management and team leadership.”

ODA president, Neil Peterson, said, “Sergey has a thorough understanding of system analysis, design and testing plus solid experience in CAD application development. In addition he has built a high-performance development team, which focuses on the strategic aspects of software development as well as urgent day-to-day-tasks.”

Before joining the ODA Vishnevetsky worked on various research and development projects in the areas of visual representation and data storage. He has extensive experience of software optimization, working with a range of platforms and languages. His areas of knowledge include the full software life cycle process; object oriented analysis and design; Agile software development; and CAD.

About Open Design Alliance

They are a technical consortium of 1,300 software developers involved in all areas of design. ODA members are committed to open industry-standard formats for the exchange of CAD data.

Their technology platform, Teigha, provides developers with tools to create a rich variety of applications. Applications created with Teigha range from custom data access and editing utilities, to visualization projects and full-scale CAD systems. Their members cooperate by submitting improvements for the common good, resulting in higher-quality tools.

Their platform supports the use of .dwg, .dgn, and .pdf files, and the import and export of many other file formats. It runs on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Unix, and Windows.

For more information about them, see www.opendesign.com.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *