Lance now has a blog!  Lance has been working in the Autodesk / Geospatial space for 25 years.  He holds a masters degree in civil engineering from McMaster University.  It's entirely like that if you've been in the Autodesk market for an extended period of time, you've met Lance.

A brief history from what I can recall.  He co-founded Rosal Systems, back before the earth cooled. (Sorry Lance, I had to get that one in there).  Rosal split up to become Software Support Ltd.  I have fond memories of SSL.  My first 'job'. At around the age of 6 to 8 or so, I was the official SSL floppy disk formatter.  The kind folks at SSL paid me 10 cents per floppy formatted - and thanks to a circular layout of the office I devised a system wherein after hours I used every machine in the building in a big floppy disk formatting loop.  At the time, my biggest goal was to purchase a "Floppy Disk Formatter" machine - I knew if I had such a machine I would be made of money and could buy all the Ultima and Sierra games I could handle.  I knew I would one day dominate the floppy disk formatting market.  Fortunately, I never did get such a device, as the market for floppy disk formatting was decimated when some genius decided to sell pre-formatted floppies....

Anyhow, SSL became Generation 5 technology, which then became Kanotech Information Systems.  It was at Kanotech that I started my career in this field...back in like 97 or so.  Sheesh!  Anyhow, thanks for the job Lance!  Eventually Lance moved on to a position at Autodesk.  Back to the present.   Lance is the other mind behind RADE.  We've worked very closely together for the past four years on RADE and here we are today.

So check out Between the Elephant's Toes, Lance's blog wherein he will regale you with tales of the Autodesk partner's story and other topics on the industry, RADE, or whatever else he comes up with =)