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From factory-floor systems to AI-assisted research, Brandon Henning has spent three decades making regulated work easier to trace, manage, and improve.

Before Chuck Donnelly built software for preclinical research, he worked on orbiting instruments, Space Shuttle ground control, and radio astronomy. RockStep Solutions turned that systems instinct toward a quieter frontier: making laboratory data usable.