30 years professional software engineering experience.

Following graduation from the University of Virginia, Mr. Fairorth worked for S.W.I.F.T. and Atlantic Research prior to founding HDRI in 1986. HDRI provided software engineering services to IBM, GTE Spacenet, and Hikimian Labs prior to making the decision to focus on the concerns of America's Veterans and the Department of Veterans Affairs in 1994. For the past 17 years Mr. Fairorth, as President of HDRI, has been the directing the activities of a team of engineers at the VA working on a number of very successful projects.