David Arctur

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1 year 24 weeks

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+1 512-771-1434

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+1 815-642-8336

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About Me

Dr. David Arctur is Director of Interoperability Programs for OGC, leading multi-disciplinary and collaborative prototype and testbed initiatives to advance new requirements and specifications for sensor web, geoprocessing workflow, decision support services, and data model harmonization. Before joining OGC, he served two years as President and Chief Technology Officer for the OGC Interoperability Institute (OGCii), taking a leadership role in starting the charitable non-profit organization positioned to better engage the academic research community in developing interoperability of scientific data and models.

Arctur was previously with the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) for six years, serving as a data architect, interoperability engineer, and technical writer. He coauthored the book, Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling (ESRI Press, 2004). Before ESRI, he was Chief Scientist for four years at Laser-Scan Inc, a GIS software company in Sterling Virginia. Prior to entering the GIS field, he taught relational database design and object-oriented programming for Informix and ParcPlace Systems in Silicon Valley (1986-92), and was involved in electric power industry research at the Electric Power Research Institute and the Stanford Research Institute (1979-84). He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida.