One of the original founders of SwiftView (formerly Northern Development Group) in 1983, Randy Prakken has more than 30 years of experience in high technology development and management, including numerous sophisticated technology document and information systems. He is responsible for product management and operations, with a particular focus on balancing security and broad functionality with ease of use.

Prior to 1983, Randy served as Vice President, Systems Division at COMSAT General Integrated Systems, where he held profit and loss responsibility for approximately $5 million of system integration business in 1982. From 1972-1980, Randy was MTS, Project Engineer and Senior Systems Engineer for the Space and Communications Group at Hughes Aircraft Company.

Randy holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California as well as bachelor’s degrees in both Electrical and Aeronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

John Corrigan is one of SwiftView‘s original founders with an engineering career that spans more than 30 years. He is integrally involved in SwiftView product design and is responsible for coordinating engineering and business functions to ensure the highest level of product quality and service.

Prior to the launch of SwiftView, John was responsible for hardware and software development at COMSAT General Integrated Systems, GE Drive Control and Hughes Aircraft Company. While at Hughes, he served as lead engineer responsible for the Pioneer Venus command units and the Space Shuttle Ku band antenna controller program.

John holds a bachelor‘s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Glenn Widener joined SwiftView in 1995 and is primarily responsible for the functionality of the SwiftView product line. He brings more than 20 years of computer engineering and Internet expertise to the company.

Glenn came to SwiftView after serving as Senior Software Engineer for Atlas Telecom, where he developed portions of a user interface on Sun workstations and a fax message switch. Prior to that, he worked as a Software Engineer for Tektronix, where he earned the company three patents for designing the data acquisition system for the world‘s fastest logic analyzer. He served as a Senior Software Engineer for several Tektronix groups, including the Computer Aided Engineering Division and Workstation groups. Glenn represented Tektronix as a volunteer for the X Window System Consortium, serving on standards committees, co-editing the X native language support standard, and writing conference tutorials and journal papers.

Glenn earned a bachelor‘s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin.