Paul A. Collins ~ Brief Bio
- President & CEO
- Wrote TheRayTracer from scratch in the C programming language, along with its User’s Guide, during ’08-‘09, ’11; 20 months total
- Familiar with C++
- Thirty-five years in the computer industry
- Wrote my first industrial ray tracer in ’89-‘90
- Founded Collins Engineering in ’88; Incorporated it in ‘12
- B.S.E.E. @ UMass/Amherst ’87, ‘88G; Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Practiced several programming languages in college including FORTRAN, Pascal, and C; Programming tutor
- Launched Collins Enterprises, a computer-systems consulting firm, in ‘86
- Various Microsoft certifications
- Various professional and academic societies
- First began computers on a Wang PC at high school in ’78 using the BASIC programming language