Barton is a senior alliances manager and product specialist for NVIDIA HPC CPU math libraries, dev-tools and digital twins. Barton is fascinated by the mathematics of 2D and 3D graphics, visualization, and AI from an early age and pursued his degree in Computer Science from RIT specifically to further these interests professionally. Barton has more than 35 years of industry experience in a variety of roles, ranging from software engineer to systems engineer, demo architect, cloud architect, and more recently NVIDIA alliances and product management. Barton is also the coauthor of two books on Java programming and has developed dozens of interactive 2D, 3D, and VR demo experiences for a wide variety of industrial scenarios, from global product launches to end user applications.