David J McClelland – Digital Experience

Testimonials

David ...demonstrated proficiency in a number of areas that are usually divided among different specialties, which was a critical success factor to our very small team.

These included:

UI design (concepts, wireframes, user flows),
front-end engineering (API integration via REST, complete feature development,
Creating a new front-end project from scratch in React, and
setting up CI automation for testing and building artifacts./li>

Requiring little supervision, David welcomed constructive feedback and enthusiastically mentored more junior members. He shared thoughtful opinions but stayed in his lane on topics outside his areas of expertise.

Anson Fan

Sr Dir. Tech Acceleration, DEVO

David is talented in a number of ways: he brings a thoughtful user-focused approach to UI Design and is also a skilled engineer who can turn those designs into a reality. David is a quick learner who was able to take our existing codebase and not only add new features but make improvements along the way. Above and beyond this David is personable and always easy to work with.

Jacob Bower

Solution Architect, DEVO

Dave has been a key factor in supporting the Axeda applications, he has also taken the lead within the team in supporting the Thingworx application by successfully evaluating and addressing customer issues in the Runtime Mashups. Others have been similarly impressed by the speed in which he has been able to come up to speed on this new technology and the ability to make major contributions. Dave has been working with technical sales engineers directly to determine the best course of action for certain customer issues and has been very successful in coming up with good solutions in a platform that is very new to him and where very few people have a full understanding of the existing implementation.

Allard Van Der Heijden

Chief Engineer, PTC

This is big "THANK YOU" to both of you for the outstanding 8.5 release. I witnessed the delivery of a lot of things both big and small that mattered for us. For some of the small things I never imagined that they would see the day of light. I believe this is one of the best releases I've witnessed, maybe the best since we bought ThingWorx (and I came onboard). 1 Getting rid of the non-visual widgets and transforming them to functions 2 Having a custom mashup builder canvas size 3 Proper flexbox accepting responsive and non-responsive widgets in the same container. 4 Shortcuts (still can argue that Ctrl+C is better than Alt+drag) 5 Timers and schedulers are separate entity types. Faster to query for sneaky timers. 6 Left entity browse panel hovers in the mashup builder without always consuming the screen size Have a great weekend, Vladimir

Dipl. Eng. Vladimir Rosu

Principal IoT & Augmented Reality Field Engineer

Mac demonstrated responsibility in leading the cross-functional XSS Tiger Team for five months which involved members from development and QA across five teams and two continents; leading a daily security code review session and examining hundreds of pull requests submitted by junior developers for security vulnerabilities. This led to a drastic reduction in discovered XSS vulnerabilities during the K release (less than 3% of the total defects discovered were the result of security). During the final push to complete the K release Mac was instrumental in working issues (including security fixes) and reviewing code helping the team close out over two hundred and fifty defects while continuing to support the CRT team.

Jason Drake

Technical VP, Thingworx

... I’m just admiring the new Composer/Mashup Builder style and redesigns for the demos. It really pops on the screen, is more usable, and so much better than a year ago. Awesome job, proud of our product!

Chris Baldwin

Vice President of Product Management, IoT

Please take a moment and take pride in your accomplishments. I know I am proud of the entire team and your commitment to quality and to do the right thing. 9.0 is a big deal. A re-platform onto Kubernetes, improved availability in Foundation, and a lot of new features across components and apps. We’re never done, but I encourage you to take a deep breath and enjoy the moment. I look forward to again being able to get out and see people face to face around the world. Until then, thank you.

John Schaefer

Director, IoT R&D

Solving the Collection widget performance for DPM Cheers to Mac and Bogdan for teaming up and solving the collection widget performance issue for DPM. DPM is a critical initiative this year and this problem was a show-stopper. Mac and Bogdan teamed up to combine the best of technical platform expertise and field/solution technical experience with ThingWorx applications to find the right design to deliver the performance our customers will need.

Jean-Philippe Provencher

VP, Manufacturing Strategy and Solutions at PTC

Thank you for a great start to FY21! There’s no other way to put it – our Q1 results were phenomenal, and they came on the backs of an excellent Q4 as well! It’s good to slow down for a minute or two and take it all in, to “stop and smell the roses” as they say. We’re living our value of Excellence & Innovation, which is evident by the industry analyst firms who rank us as the leader in all of our major businesses.

Jim Heppelmann

CEO, PTC

In general the feedback from many (inside and outside PTC) is that 8.4 is a huge success. Most specifically around the developer/user experience. Nice work everyone!

Bob Elam

VP, ThingWorx IoT Platform R&D

This was a HUGE release, and the milestone is just one triumph after a long PI of triumphs over the last 9 months: From my perspective: Higher quality product than ever before More secure product than ever before More market-focused set of content than ever before More organized change management than ever before More effective customer escalation management and reactivity than ever before All while paving architectural runway for our next release All while delivering beta drops for a next-gen architecture (HA) All while transitioning to new and excellent R&D leadership All in the midst of implementing some of our largest customer deployments And, all while planning our next greatest release ever Thank you all for your passion, sweat, and professionalism. Looking forward to an awesome FY20 full of product wins! Have a great and well deserved weekend with your families. JB

Joe Biron

CTO, IoT PTC

Subject: woot! Its great when we pound our chests. Its even better when someone else does publicly. Check this post I spied today! Please cascade to your teams! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrei-hawke-b9140a14_thingworx-85-is-out-like-a-lot-of-software-activity-6585288234031513600-qB9z Thingworx 8.5 is out. Like a lot of software it's often the small things that make an impact. Some of my favorite features of the new mashup builder. More Flexbox functions exposed (better layouts and management of dynamic content) Mutli-tabs (easier to jump between things or other mashups) Styles are now a tab (saves searching for the right style to change on an element)

Andrei Hawke

Customer

One project I worked with David on was dynamic composition of forms based on a metadata schema and gathering the data from those forms. David grasped the concepts quickly and made significant improvements and expansions to the feature. As we went David always asked the right questions, thinking about what end-users would expect, what pain-points we may be able to alleviate, and engineering functional requirements.

Jacob Bower

Solution Architect, DEVO

This release cycle was very compressed at less than 8 weeks and despite the continuous pressure I know you all feel to provide support for our customer base, we were able to provide the next release of the Grid with some key features. We also had to provide review for a variety of other teams (such as multiple individuals from ISG and I am sure a few from the composer team) for issues and features worked. In addition, we had to adopt to the new review, testing and build practices mid-release and you provided me with an opportunity to visit Rochester and work with you all on process changes to help improve our quality and predictability as an organization. Great job and thank you! -Jason

Jason Drake

Technical VP

I just met with Ashley Furniture in our Corporate Experience Center (CXC) here in Boston. They are existing ThingWorx customers with manufacturing use cases and also own Windchill. Ward Bowman and Ayush Tiwari were part of a team that visited Ashley a few weeks ago to help turn around their struggling implementation (and they did!). This customer is now a huge PTC advocate and expansion candidate. Today was one of the most validating CXC sessions I have been part of during my time here at PTC. Please take a moment today to pat yourselves on the back. It was this team’s ideas, hard work and commitment that delivered the 8.4 release. While we have many challenges remaining as a team and product, please know the work we do every day matters materially to our customers and PTC. Thanks for all that you do. Chris

Chris Baldwin

Vice President of Product Management, IoT

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