Tom Bundy

Tom Bundy, a co-founder of Gale Force Software Corporation, brings his expertise in developing systems composed of distributed objects over a variety of platforms to the company's extensive list of capabilities. Tom has architected, managed, and developed production software for the medical device, military, information technology, financial, student loan, and consumer electronics marketplaces.

Tom's technical experience includes more than 15 years of C programming, 10 years of development in C++ and Java, and 10 years of client/server and distributed computing experience. He has developed systems running on Windows, UNIX, and Linux and has developed and helped clients launch e-commerce applications.

Tom served as the lead engineer on the team involved with the design and development of a website that integrated data from a patient monitoring device into a web-based patient and data management system. The website consisted of an e-commerce site for the promotion and sale of the device, an administrative site that allowed physicians to view and organize their inventory of devices, and a site that allowed users of the device to upload data from the device and to customize their health goals and to track progress toward achieving those goals. He also developed a Linux-based high-speed internet access product for a client that serves the hospitality industry. Designed as an Open Source solution, the system provided a tiered pricing structure operating off a customizable rules-based engine.

Among his recent engagements, Tom had the responsibility for development of the results export module, the assay sequencing module, and the on-board fluids inventory module of any automated blood analyzer that has been approved by the FDA for use in large laboratory environments. He also led several projects (for the same analyzer effort) to automate the application development process from source control management for a nightly-build process to the unattended generation of installation images.

Before joining Gale Force Software as a co-founder, Tom worked on major product development efforts for the RND Group, Inc.; Sallie Mae; Baker Hill; Software Artistry; the Department of Defense; and the Eastman Kodak Company. These included applications related to Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRs), loan origination and approval systems, worldwide package tracking systems for military cargo, court case management and reporting systems and systems that coordinate and exchange information for high-speed commercial printing.

Tom holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

Fran Gale

Fran Gale joined Gale Force Software Corporation as a co-founder with more than 25 years of experience working for companies and/or clients doing business in regulated industries.  She brings to the group her strong capabilities in business development, relationship management, and program/project management.

Prior to co-founding Gale Force Software, Fran served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the RND Group, Inc., and was a member of the company's management team.  While with RND, she had responsibility for developing professional business relationships with clients in the medical device, consumer electronics, and secure facility access industries, among others.  She served as the project manager on some of the engagements.  Fran also held the position of Vice-President of Business Development for Indesign, LLC, an engineering services company focused on the telecommunications, consumer electronics, and medical device industries.  She was responsible for helping the company realize significant growth and diversification in its client base.

Fran's past experience in providing engineering services to product development companies includes time spent in business development and in leading a team of project managers for Diversified Systems, Inc., and as a division manager and senior program manager for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).  She spent 10 years with Eli Lilly and Company in a series of assignments with increasing responsibility.  Beginning as a writer for the company's employee publications, she advanced to the media relations group where she served as an official company spokesman, becoming an expert communicator on issues related to environmental controls and regulations, product liability, and other legal matters.  She was selected to participate in the company's skills enhancement/career development program, completing rigorous training in pharmaceutical sales and being deployed on a field assignment in the Pacific Northwest.

Fran has a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Journalism from Indiana University.  She has had continued training in fixed-price project management from SAIC and in executive management from the University of Notre Dame.

Russ Mock

As one of the five co-founders of Gale Force Software, Russ Mock adds significant knowledge and experience in following FDA process control guidelines to the company's overall capabilities.  As an example, Russ served on the Connectivity Industry Consortium, a group that was responsible for publishing the now-accepted and widely used POCT-1A medical device interface standard.

Russ has more than 17 years of software development experience in the fields of medical device/instrumentation, military electronics, and facilities security.  He served as one of the key engineers on a distributed team involved with new product design, requirements development, and system analysis for an electronic door-mounted access system for the secure facility access market.  He also assumed responsibility for the troubleshooting, maintenance, and ongoing enhancement of the embedded controller module of a large FDA Class II medical device.

Before becoming part of the engineering and management team at Gale Force Software, Russ was a lead engineer with the RND Group, Inc.  He also served as chief engineer for UMM Electronics, Inc., on multiple projects, including a cardiac biomarker diagnostic device and a hand-held drugs-of-abuse screening instrument.  In addition, he had the responsibility for the oversight, design, and development of all of the automation on a manufacturing line that produced more than 40,000 blood glucose meters per month.  The tasks involved with this effort included test fixture design, FDA design controls, automated repair stations, final quality inspection stations, and process improvement activities.  He also served as the software lead for a team of engineers that developed a point-of-care blood analyzer, where he was responsible for high-level system design, detailed design, requirements management, resource management, code structuring, algorithm design, V & V activities, and software development.  While working for Bayer Diagnostics, Russ worked on the development of Bayer's Clinitek© Urine Chemistry Analyzer while also developing an assay-independent, parameter-driven algorithm for results processing.

He also has experience in software design and development for military defense applications, such as in-flight simulators used for classroom training and for products intended to digitize battlefield communications.  Russ was involved in these projects while working for Veda Incorporated (on assignment to the Naval Air Warfare Center) and ITT Aerospace.

Russ holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Tri-State University.

Marshall Parker

Marshall Parker, co-founder and principal with Gale Software Corporation, has significant practical expertise in the area of software development and software quality management, particularly related to the development of FDA-regulated devices.  He has 17 years of experience in the electronic medical device and defense industries, also bringing project planning, requirements generation, design document generation, and verification and validation protocol generation and testing experience to the Gale Force Software team.

Before helping to co-found Gale Force Software, Marshall worked for the RND Group, Inc., where he was the lead software engineer on medical device projects for instruments used for patient testing in hospital or long-term care environments.  In this capacity, he had responsibilities covering all aspects of the product development life cycle, from initial technical feasibility investigations through final design, documentation, testing, and delivery. He also provided software engineering support to the life cycle management of products already on the market, including investigating and helping to resolve operational anomalies, implementing new features into the products, and conducting and documenting exhaustive verification testing of the products.  He has significant expertise in the development of design and test documentation associated with FDA-regulated devices.  Additionally, Marshall served as a member of the quality management team for RND, a company that is widely recognized for its quality software engineering services in the medical device and consumer electronics fields.

Marshall also previously worked for UMM Electronics and Roche Diagnostics Corporation, where he was involved in the design and development of various medical products and the manufacturing equipment used to calibrate and test the products.  Those products ranged from embedded data acquisition systems and hand-held blood glucose and blood coagulation meters to single-board computer designs and PC-based systems.  In addition to his software development role, he was responsible for project planning, requirements generation, design document generation, and verification and validation protocol generation and testing.  He started his career with the Naval Air Warfare Center, where he was responsible for both the hardware and software design and development for various automated production test systems.

Marshall has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Purdue University.

Scott Rulong

Scott Rulong, one of the five founders of Gale Force Software Corporation, has long been involved in providing software engineering services to companies developing products in a range of industries.  He has established a long history of customer satisfaction with the high quality, on-time delivery, and cost effectiveness of the software that he and his colleagues have provided for products in the marketplace.

Scott has 25 years of experience in the design, development, and deployment of production software for the medical device, aerospace/defense, information technology, security, HVAC, and consumer electronics marketplaces.  Among his engineering accomplishments, Scott designed and developed major architectural software components that will be used to control a fully-automated, genetic genotyping instrument.  He was also the initial architect for the command and control software for a blood analyzer that has been approved by the FDA for use in large laboratory environments.  He has played a key role in a number of device development projects within the diabetes care business unit of a large medical device company.  In addition, he served as the lead software engineer for data acquisition test stands for a number of diagnostic self-test meters; has developed applications for functional, calibration, and configuration test stands used to test products in a manufacturing environment; has provided other applications and utilities used by hardware engineering teams to support their development efforts; and developed the software prototype used as the proof-of-concept for a PDA-based drugs-of-abuse test device.

Prior to the founding of Gale Force Software, Scott was the co-founder, co-president, and software engineering practice leader for the RND Group, Inc.  He helped guide and build an organization that is widely recognized for its quality software engineering services in the medical device and consumer electronics fields.  Scott also has held key engineering positions with Software Artistry, where he managed all aspects of product development and delivery for both the Common Business Objects and the Foundation Object components of the company.  He also served as lead development engineer for the company's flagship help-desk and defect tracking products.  In addition, Scott held lead software engineering positions with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Dome Software, and Battelle's Information Dimensions, Inc.

Scott holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science/Physics from the University of Dayton and has been identified as an inventor on a number of patents.