Joe grew up in central Maine and has returned to see how the state has faired. Prior to working at CrossRate, Joe spent three and a half years as an embedded software engineer at Xerox in Portland, Oregon. There he worked in several cross-discipline groups, implementing system configuration management, media handling, and image path code, as well has his own page description language. Joe received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, focusing on microcontroller development, image processing, and math. At CrossRate, he is working as both an embedded developer and a maritime product engineer.