Keith Fieldhouse

Keith joined Kitware in May 2010 as a research and development engineer and was rapidly promoted to technical lead for his technical contributions and leadership across multiple projects on the Computer Vision Team, particularly the DARPA PerSEAS and VIRAT efforts. He was then promoted to an assistant director, where he demonstrated outstanding leadership on large, multi-year, multi-phase projects. Through these projects, which include DARPA Squad-X Core Technologies and DARPA URSA, he has developed a new area of business for Kitware in cyber-physical systems (CPS). This resulted in his most recent promotion to director of cyber-physical systems. Previously, Keith worked for IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, and as an independent consultant building medical software for Apple Macintosh computers. He then took a position with Adobe Systems in Seattle, Washington, where he pioneered Adobe’s early online commerce activities and joined the Consumer Systems Group dedicated to bringing Adobe technology to non-traditional 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. Keith Fieldhouse graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He also holds a M.A. in Military History from Norwich University. More recently Keith worked at Simmetrix Inc, where he was the lead and principal architect of a Python-based rapid development environment for Simulation Based Design.