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.