I grew up in Southern Texas, served 4 years in the Navy as a radarman and began my professional surveying career in 1965 when I was licensed in Utah. Subsequently I managed the surveying department of a medium sized engineering and surveying firm until they were bought by a national firm (DMJM) in 1982. In 1983 I purchased the surveying business from the new firm and started my own company, Schuchert & Associates. We used Holguin software with the Wang computer until the PC became popular. It was then that I developed the coordinate geometry program now known as QuickCogo. It was written for MSDOS since Windows was still on Microsoft's drawing board. I began to market the software in 1989 through trade magazines and direct mail. The response was encouraging so I continued to promote and improve the program, developing the Windows version in 1994. I have also developed cogo programs for Palm and Pocket PC devices containing many of the same routines found in QuickCogo. The files from each are interchangeable with the desktop version.

I retired from active practice in 1995 but continued the software development. I work from my home in South Jordan, Utah, which is about 20 miles Southwest of Salt Lake City. I enjoy keeping in touch with the profession through my involvement with the software and my relationships with a wide variety of users.

Jim Schuchert