Chad Schmitke
Senior Director, Solutions
Maplesoft

A brief professional biography highlighting relevant experience and expertise. Chad Schmitke is Senior Director, Solutions at Maplesoft, where he steers the development of software products and services for modeling and simulating industrial machines and technical products. Chad holds a Ph.D. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, where he also served as an adjunct professor. His area of research focused on the symbolic modeling of multibody mechatronic systems. Before joining Maplesoft, Chad worked at the Canadian Space Agency as a post-doctoral fellow, developing tools for modeling robotic manipulators