Jonathan Girroir, Technical Evangelist at Tech Soft 3D

Jonathan Girroir is Technical Evangelist at Tech Soft 3D, a company which provides 3D software development toolkits that power world class engineering applications.  Jonathan has 25 years experience in the software development industry and has a passion for building the next generation of 3D software. 

Jonathan talks about Tech Soft 3D’s main software – HOOPS – 3D software development toolkits (SDKs) which power world-class engineering applications. HOOPS is an anagram for Hierarchy of Object-Oriented Picture System. We talk about how HOOPS is enabling the AR industry and his advice for handling massive data sets with web and mobile engineering applications.

Nicola Steel and Jonathan discuss Jonathan’s career highlights including being part of a startup after college, being a lecturer at Harvard University, travelling the world and taking a major investment in Tech Soft 3D.  They also talk about his main challenges which include living in a small US city and overcoming the 2008/2009 Global Financial Crisis.

Jonathan believes that the crucial characteristics of high performers are:

⭐A desire and hunger to make a difference

⭐A doer

⭐Ability to learn and be teachable

⭐Shared values

Jonathan’s values are integrity, hard work and kindness. His company values are be agile and responsive, have fun, build positive relationships, pursue excellence!