Deborah Ness

The CEO and Founder of L D Ness Inc, Deborah Ness, has provided broad oversight, direction and management since the company’s inception in 1983.

Deborah received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Composition from West Virginia University in 1981.

Lawrence Ness

The CTO of L D Ness Inc, Lawrence Ness, has been developing software since 1983. His current focus is in developing unique user and data interfaces for web- and desktop-based products, employing C#, PHP, Visual Basic, C/C++, Javascript, and Transact-SQL.

Prior to coming to L D Ness Inc, he worked as a systems programmer for GTE Business Communications Systems, supporting a user community of over 350 software developers on VAX/VMS platforms. At GTE, he adapted a set of Digital Equipment Corporation device drivers developed for use in Europe to operate on US networks, deploying one of the first wide-area-network systems for VAX computers in North America.

From 1978 to 1981, Lawrence worked as a software engineer for CSC contracted to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center. At CSC, he developed several wide area data links for receiving and storing satellite telemetry, and co-developed a more powerful replacement of the IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO) for use by spacecraft attitude operations.

Lawrence received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from West Virginia University in 1978, specializing in operating systems, assembly language programming, and minicomputer communications software. He had a minor in mathematics and a grounding in electrical engineering, which he studied in his first two years.