Clifford Kottman Joins OGC as Vice President, Technology Development.WAYLAND, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1997--The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Dr. Clifford A. Kottman, formerly of The MITRE Corporation, has become OGC's Vice President, Technology Development. In this position he will manage key activities in the OGC Technical Committee, the industry team developing the OpenGIS Specification for software interfaces and services that enable efficient use of geographic information in network computing environments. Within the MITRE Corporation, Dr. Kottman was a member of the Senior Principal Staff, Technical Focal Point for Imagery and Spatial Data Systems Technologies, and Director of Geospatial Programs. He represented MITRE to the Open GIS Consortium. Prior to joining MITRE, Dr. Kottman was an Executive Manager responsible for Federal Systems Division marketing at the Reston, VA, office of Intergraph Corporation. He served Intergraph for over five years, and was their expert in spatial information standards. He represented Intergraph to ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. X3L1, Open GIS Consortium, ISO TC 211, the NIBS CADD Council, and he chaired the ACSM ACSM American College of Sports Medicine. Standards Committee. Cliff provided expertise in GIS requirements analysis for large government organizations and led a major study for requirements definition and preliminary design of a Kingdom-wide GIS in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Kottman also held similar responsibilities at the Lockheed Integrated Solutions Company, and prior to that served the Defense Mapping Agency for over twelve years, leading activities aimed at the standardization of DMA products, procedures, and data structures, including managing the Product Generation Segment of the DPS. He conceived the Digital Chart of the World The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) is a comprehensive digital map of the world. It represents the most comprehensive GIS global database that is freely available as of 2006, although it has not been updated since 1992. project and obtained its funding. Prior to his civil service at DMA, Dr. Kottman performed duties of teaching and research at Louisiana State University Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. , Oregon State University Oregon State University, at Corvallis; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1858 as Corvallis College, opened 1865. In 1868 it was designated Oregon's land-grant agricultural college and was taken over completely by the state in 1885. , and Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. Dr. Kottman has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Iowa Not to be confused with Iowa State University. The first faculty offered instruction at the University in March 1855 to students in the Old Mechanics Building, situated where Seashore Hall is now. In September 1855, the student body numbered 124, of which, 41 were women. and a B.S. in Mathematics from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is a member of AMS AMS - Andrew Message System , MAA MAA abbr. macroaggregated albumin , URISA, ACSM, ANSI X3L1, ASPRS, and AM/FM and is the author of more than thirty technical publications. OGC coordinates development of the OpenGIS Specification and also facilitates business development related to open systems approaches to the collection, management, distribution, and processing of digital geographic information. CONTACT: Open GIS Consortium, Inc. Lance McKee, 508-655-5858 lmckee@opengis.org or The Rainier Company Mary Cadwallader, 508-464-5302 mary@rainierco.com |
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