Our Team
Brian Mottershead
brian at riverscape.info
Brian Mottershead is a Co-founder and Principal of
Riverscape. He has over 30 years of experience as a software
professional. A founder of Papyrus Development Corporation (PDC)
in 1995, one of the earliest web consulting companies, he was
responsible for the development of e-Travel, the first web-based
travel reservation system for business travellers, later
acquired by Oracle and now part of Amadeus. A sister company of
PDC, Papyrus Associates, of which Brian was also a Founder,
developed one of the first commercial cursive handwriting
recognition systems for the mobile device market. Besides
e-Travel, other PDC/PA clients included Amstrad, Eden Group,
Hitachi, Symbian, Olivetti, and Fonix.
Brian founded Riverscape with Cindy Mottershead after selling the
Papyrus companies in 1998. Under the Riverscape banner, he developed
the Java-based front-end of one of the first web-based PACS (Picture
Archiving and Control Systems) for radiological and other medical
images, for Amicas, Inc. A pioneer of social networking systems, from
2002 to 2006 he grew photo.net into the leading social networking web
site for serious photographers. More recently, Brian has developed an
interest in Interactive Voice Response systems, and was the software
designer behind Lessac Technologies' Text-to-Speech engine, which
raises the bar on natural speech synthesis. He is expert in numerous
programming languages, tools, and database systems.
Cindy Mottershead
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cindy at riverscape.info
Cindy Mottershead is a Principal and Co-founder of
Riverscape. She is expert in LAMP, PHP, C++, Java, AJAX,
Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Prior to Riverscape, she was
the Lead Engineer of the Operating System group at Thinking
Machines, where she was responsible for the development of the
operating system for the CM-5, a landmark massively parallel
supercomputer. She was also the co-founder and CTO of
Islandway, a startup software development company in the
project management and collaboration market. In her spare
time, Cindy likes to play with new technology, spend time with
her family, and enjoy nature (hike, camp, bike, rollerblade,
etc).
Brian Mottershead
brian at riverscape.info
Brian Mottershead is a Co-founder and Principal of Riverscape. He has over 30 years of experience as a software professional. A founder of Papyrus Development Corporation (PDC) in 1995, one of the earliest web consulting companies, he was responsible for the development of e-Travel, the first web-based travel reservation system for business travellers, later acquired by Oracle and now part of Amadeus. A sister company of PDC, Papyrus Associates, of which Brian was also a Founder, developed one of the first commercial cursive handwriting recognition systems for the mobile device market. Besides e-Travel, other PDC/PA clients included Amstrad, Eden Group, Hitachi, Symbian, Olivetti, and Fonix.
Brian founded Riverscape with Cindy Mottershead after selling the Papyrus companies in 1998. Under the Riverscape banner, he developed the Java-based front-end of one of the first web-based PACS (Picture Archiving and Control Systems) for radiological and other medical images, for Amicas, Inc. A pioneer of social networking systems, from 2002 to 2006 he grew photo.net into the leading social networking web site for serious photographers. More recently, Brian has developed an interest in Interactive Voice Response systems, and was the software designer behind Lessac Technologies' Text-to-Speech engine, which raises the bar on natural speech synthesis. He is expert in numerous programming languages, tools, and database systems.
Cindy Mottershead
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cindy at riverscape.info
Cindy Mottershead is a Principal and Co-founder of Riverscape. She is expert in LAMP, PHP, C++, Java, AJAX, Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Prior to Riverscape, she was the Lead Engineer of the Operating System group at Thinking Machines, where she was responsible for the development of the operating system for the CM-5, a landmark massively parallel supercomputer. She was also the co-founder and CTO of Islandway, a startup software development company in the project management and collaboration market. In her spare time, Cindy likes to play with new technology, spend time with her family, and enjoy nature (hike, camp, bike, rollerblade, etc).