Before starting Mosaic Art Supply, Joe worked on a wide variety of projects in business software, manufacturing and research & development. After the dot-com collapse, Joe consolidated North American operations and hosting for the French software firm iMediation, and then went on to help develop the database interface for what eventually became IBM's recommended software for inventory management. Before software, Joe worked as a manufacturing engineer for Herman Miller, Inc. During doctoral studies at The University of Georgia, Joe worked on numerous food product and process development projects, including extruded functional ingredients, radiant-wall oven applications and Microbial inactivation by high-pressure throttling (US Patent 6,120,732). Joe holds several language and OS certifications, including Java, Solaris and Cisco routers.