User:Glydrgg

Rick Tett (He/Him) is a cofounder of Glydr and the inventor of the foot-operated input device, which can be used for video gaming, virtual reality locomotion, lower-limb therapy, and telerobotics. He has a software engineer and entrepreneur with a long career creating things based on digital technology. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University and a Master's in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the Jindal School of Management at University of Texas at Dallas. He has been granted more than a dozen patents by the U.S., China, Japan, South Korea and 4 European countries.

Prior to forming Glydr, Rick helped build the technology behind the success of SkyKick, a cloud migration company based in Seattle. Earlier, he led product development teams at Tandem and Weblink Wireless. At a new venture in Dallas, MobileWare funded by Compaq Computer, he created one of the first products to enable sending email wirelessly. As a consultant, he completed projects for NASA, CIA, NIH, CDC, Medtronic, Honeywell, Minneapolis Star & Tribune, NEC, Tandem, NCR, and others. His understanding spans everything from computer communication protocols and parallel programming to machine learning and AI.

He and his wife have three children and seven grandchildren.