Welcome to my site. I'm Lou Franco, a software developer living in Northampton, MA. On this site, I blog about software development projects I work on outside of work. You can also follow me on Twitter.

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About me

I'm a software development and management veteran who has delivered projects and products for NASDAQ, The Federal Reserve Bank of NY, the US Military and 800 of the top financial institutions in the world.  I have been developing software and leading development teams and projects since 1992.

I have expertise in software team management, project management, software development, product marketing, and software usability. I hold three patents (6,199,078, 6,687,745, and 7,502,838).

I'm currently the Director of Engineering at Atalasoft, which publishes a .NET Imaging SDK and the document viewer for SharePoint. I have another blog focussed on ECM Imaging (ECMi) there.