699 Windsong Trail
Austin, Texas 78746
(512)-328-9660

Objective Engineering has been providing consulting and training in object-oriented development methods since 1992. During that time, we have provided expertise and assistance to hundreds of software developers across a wide range of application areas. Our clients include industry leaders such as IBM, Motorola, Dell, Compaq, QUALCOMM, Tandem, Siemens/ROLM, and many others.

Objective Engineering offers basic and advanced training and consulting at reasonable rates. We will tailor a training session to meet your particular needs based on your application area and staff experience.

Charles Richter, founder of Objective Engineering, has spent a decade in object-oriented software development, training, and mentoring. During that period, he has been involved in several object-oriented development efforts. Mr. Richter has been teaching object-oriented methods since 1991.

In his spare time, Mr. Richter serves on the faculty of the Software Quality Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He has given public presentations and tutorials on object-oriented development at several major conferences, including a tutorial on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) at the most recent Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) conference.

Before founding Objective Engineering, Mr. Richter was engaged in object-oriented development and research at MCC, a research consortium in Austin, Texas. He has been a project leader and software engineer on various projects.

Mr. Richter has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University and a Master of Science in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a past member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Dion Messer, president of Objective Engineering, has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a JD from the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Please see her resume, publications, patents and projects for more details.