Todd Hauschildt
President & CEO
SWAT Solutions Inc.
Todd Hauschildt is the President & CEO for SWAT Solutions. Todd is a 20 year technology veteran who is committed to exceeding client expectations.
Prior to joining SWAT Solutions, Todd started and ran the Managed Technology Services business unit that worked with law firms throughout North America to host their technology systems and applications within the world-class Thomson Reuters data centers. Also during his tenure at Thomson Reuters, Todd ran the Westlaw development organization and the CRM/ecommerce organizations.
Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Todd served as Director of Research and Development as well as product marketing for Control Data Systems, Inc.
Todd is a frequent speaker on numerous topics and guest author for industry publications.
Todd holds degrees in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Gustavus Adolphus College and an MBA from Ellis College. Todd serves on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota High Tech Association and the board of the Minnesota Academy of Science. Todd is a member of the Minnesota Science and Technology Hall of Fame steering committee and was appointed to the MN Department of Employment and Economic Development’s Science and Technology Task Force.
John Fox
Chief Operating Officer
SWAT Solutions Inc.
John Fox is currently Chief Operating Officer at SWAT Solutions. He acquired over 25 years of experience in the software industry while working for several prominent Twin Cities companies such as Unisys, Young America Corp, and Wilson Learning. John was also a co-founder of Boomerang Marketing, an Internet-based incentive company.
Fox launched his career as a systems programmer in the 1980s with Sperry Univac Defense Systems (now Lockheed Martin) where he focused on operating system and compiler development. John eventually became a Software Development Manager and then CTO for several local firms. He has also spent time in marketing at Network Systems and ETA Systems. All told, he has developed a well-rounded technical knowledge base by holding nearly every job in the software development arena at one time or another.
Fox has been a highlighted contributor to the press including three Business Forum commentaries in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. On the national level, John has penned expert bylines on testing topics for publications such as Government Procurement Journal. Other examples of print publications featuring SWAT Solutions are Minnesota Technology Magazine, Twin Cities Business Monthly, The Business Journal, Minnesota Business and ComputerUser.
As Chief Operating Officer for SWAT Solutions, Fox envisions the company’s mission as enhancing the quality, stability and performance of software usage, thereby preventing costly failures and unnecessary downtime. As evidence of their leadership in the Software Quality Assurance field, SWAT Solutions has garnered five Fast 50 awards in as many years.
Fox is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN and holds a BA degree in Psychology & Computer Science.
Richard Burton
Lab Services Director at SWAT Lab
SWAT Solutions Inc.
Richard Burton, Lab Services Director at SWAT Lab, is responsible for the company’s new growth plans that include designing test matrices and processes for wireless technologies, 64bit architecture, security applications and web applications.
Burton’s primary responsibilities at SWAT Lab are managing all lab engineers, testers and technicians, and overseeing all test projects. This includes creating test processes and efficiencies to provide the highest quality of deliverables to SWAT Lab clients. Burton also architected and deployed web-based software that is now used as a portal for all SWAT Lab client management, project data management and collaboration.
Burton worked with a major medical software company in Minneapolis, leveraging his experience in test lab provisioning to design and implement a fast and economical automated verification framework. This framework tests multi-product applications on a single platform, using multi-boot partitioning architecture and scripted automation. The architecture will save hundreds of thousands of dollars in hardware costs and hundreds of hours of testing time. It will allow the company to conduct testing with coverage and efficiency that could not be realized prior to implementing this test architecture.
Prior to joining SWAT Lab in 2004, Burton worked in several capacities at PCTest Corporation in Portland, OR, most recently as a company Director. He designed and built hardware and software test matrices and processes for various sectors of the computer industry, testing over 500 software applications and 300 peripherals. At PCTest, Burton was involved in interactions with 300+ customers and 3000 projects. One major project was building an outsourced solution for the Fisher-Price Power Touch System that provided the company with a 50% cost reduction over previous testing methods. Another project was creating an outsourced motherboard validation solution for Intel.
Burton studied software engineering and mathematics at Portland Community College and completed advance coursework in Computer Systems Engineering Technology at the Oregon Institute of Technology. Current professional associations include the Minnesota High Tech Association, Life Science Alley, VMWare and Oracle Users Groups of Minneapolis, Microsoft Partner Program, and Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SUN Developer Networks.
