Lakin Wecker is the Co-founder at BigGeo and currently serves as the Director at Structured Abstraction, where they have been since 2008. They are a Resident Graduate Student pursuing a PhD in Computer Science after obtaining a MSc in the same field from the University of Calgary, where they were also a PhD candidate from 2000 to 2007. Lakin has over 12 years of experience in software development and application solutions, having worked at companies such as Evolvs Media Inc and iStockphoto.com. They are an experienced and published researcher with a focus on computer graphics and internet applications.