Autodesk's GIS Division Announces Global Advisory Customer Council.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN RAFAEL San Rafael (săn rəfĕl`), residential city (1990 pop. 48,404), seat of Marin co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1913. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2002 Division Also Appoints Award-Winning Senior Director of Marketing to Lead Product Management, Marketing, and Business Development Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADSK ADSK Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) ), the world's leading design software and digital content company, today formally announced the formation of a Global GIS Customer Council (GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). ) to provide a collective customer voice to integrate customer needs with Autodesk GIS products, services, and strategic direction worldwide. Autodesk also announced it has appointed Ernesto Diaz senior director of marketing for the GIS Solutions Division. Global GIS Customer Council The GCC consists of 15 global Autodesk customers from the mapping, civil design, and infrastructure management markets in Brazil, England, France, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The GCC plans to meet annually at Autodesk University where council members will provide professional insight from their respective markets. Personal interaction also occurs throughout the year on an informal basis. "In the GIS division at Autodesk, we firmly believe that our customers have a big role to play in the shaping of product and strategic direction," said Larry Diamond Larry Diamond is a professor, lecturer, adviser, and author on foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy. In early 2004, he was a senior adviser on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. , vice president of Autodesk's GIS Division. "The GCC provides an open forum for our customers to offer insight, direction, and recommendations from the user perspective, information which ultimately helps us deliver better software to the market." Ernesto Diaz In his new role as Senior Director of Marketing for the GIS Solutions Division, Diaz will work closely with Diamond and the GCC to lead the GIS product management, industry and product marketing, and business development teams. Diaz, who has extensive experience managing global vendor and partner relationships, joins Autodesk from Lucent Technologies, Inc., where he was the director of product and offer management for the company's mobility business. At Lucent, Diaz led the operations of three cross-functional teams accountable for product and strategic marketing management for new product introduction in the United States and Europe. Diaz has extensive experience in the telecommunications industry, including work as a systems engineer at AT&T International. Diaz began his career in Venezuela in 1988 as a project engineer for Bechtel. During his career, Diaz has received numerous awards, including the Bell Labs President's Silver Award for outstanding innovation and technical excellence and the Lucent Award for Excellence for outstanding leadership and ethics. Diaz holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. from the Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela, where his thesis won a National Prize (3rd place in the Telecommunications Area), and received his Industrial Engineering Professional Certification Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure that he/she is qualified to perform a job or task. for the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in Spain. He is also a graduate of the Berkeley Executive Program at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal . About Autodesk Founded in 1982, Autodesk, Inc., is the world's leading design and digital media creation, management, and distribution company. The company serves a diverse portfolio of markets, including building design, geographic information systems geographic information system (GIS) Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to , manufacturing, digital media, and wireless data services. By delivering tools that foster innovation and creativity, Autodesk helps customers throughout the value chain use digital design data to work better, faster, and smarter. For more information about the company, see www.autodesk.com. Autodesk is a registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. |
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