Biography

Keith Fieldhouse graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1985. After stints with IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation and as an independent consultant building medial software for Apple Macintosh computers, he found himself working for Adobe Systems in Seattle, Washington. There he pioneered Adobe's early online commerce activities and then joined the Consumer Systems Group dedicated to bringing Adobe technology to non-traditonal consumer computing devices.

The Consumer Systems Group was spun out by Adobe as PictureIQ Inc. where Keith served as the head of engineering, architecting and developing award winning server technology for the then nascent online photo industry.

More recently Keith worked at Simmetrix Inc, where he developed a Python-based rapid development environment for Simulation Based Design. Keith joined Kitware in May 2010 as a member of the Scientific Computing group.