Nick Dipatri is Senior Software Engineer at LifeShield. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers and has been doing software development since his first Commodore 64. Nick has designed a tactical-radio emulator for the Department of Defense, created a web spider to crawl the web for Infonautics, and built a wide-scale data collector so Traffic.com could connect to thousands of remote traffic sensors. Since 2006, Nick has been with LifeShield, where he develops back end and client side systems.