Education
Lakowske holds a Bachelor of Surgery in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and an Master of Surgery in human factors from the University of Southern California.
Lakowske holds a Bachelor of Surgery in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and an Master of Surgery in human factors from the University of Southern California.
After an almost 10-year career with National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he began establishing and growing a series of high-tech start-up companies. His career is characterized by the ability to translate computer technology developed for the space and aviation fields into easy-to-use applications within the commercial sector, many of which are simulation products that ultimately contribute to human safety. Lakowske is currently president and Chief Executive Officer of Mentor eData, with offices in Boulder, Colorado and Arroyo Grande, California. The company was formed in 2008 to leverage expertise in complex aviation safety data analysis tools and techniques to improve teenage driver safety and performance.
From 1997 to 2007, Lakowske was a leader at SimAuthor Incorporated, a computer software company he founded in Boulder, Colorado. SimAuthor introduced its FlightViz™ software in 1997 to evaluate human performance in flight systems
United Airlines was its first customer, utilizing the software to improve airline safety. In 2002, during Lakowske’s tenure as president and Chief Executive Officer of the company, SimAuthor Incorporated. was named a “Graduate of the Year” by the Boulder Technology Incubator.
In addition to Flight Viz™, he also designed FlightAnalyst™ which provided analysis of aircraft and simulator data. Coryphaeus Software Incorporated. in Los Gatos, California was founded by Lakowske in 1989.
Coryphaeus designed, developed and sold interactive, graphical simulation software that was unique in that it allowed non-programmers to perform work that previously required highly trained programmers and lengthy project schedules.
Lakowske also spent a year (1988–1989) with MultiGen-Paradigm, Incorporated. in San Jose, California as Manager of New Business Development. He was the seventh employee of the private start-up. The company developed the first commercial interactive real-time 3D database modeling software (MultiGen) on Silicon Graphic Uniplex Information and Computing System workstations, used for generating visual databases for flight simulators.
Lakowske spent almost 10 years with National Aeronautics and Space Administration as an electrical engineer
He first worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California (1979–1984) and then became a Program Manager with Sterling Federal Systems, (also affiliated with National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Ames) His work there was aimed at applying computational models of human behavior and performance to complex aviation systems Lakowske was born December
31, 1956 in Kansas City, Missouri to Darrell and Neola Lakowske.