Luis Bermudez

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About Me

Dr. Bermudez has broad experience in geospatial information systems and open source development, focused on transforming concepts and requirements into final successful products. He has a PhD and M.S. in Hydroinformatics from Drexel University, USA and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Andes University in Bogota, Colombia.

Dr. Bermudez teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Master's program.

Dr. Bermudez is the Director of the Interoperability Certification at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). In this position he leads the planning and execution of Compliance and Testing Program activities (opengeospatial.org/compliance); serves as system architect in interoperability program initiatives; and gives talks, tutorials and workshops worldwide about OGC technologies, geospatial interoperability, sensor networks and geo-semantics.

Before joining OGC he was the Coastal Research Technical Manager at Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), where he directed projects that advanced information technologies helping to understand the Earth phenomena, such as climate change, inundation, coastal erosion, and harmful algae blooms. He coordinated the technology development of the Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (scoop.sura.org/) program to chain and merge information from real time data and distributed numerical models to provide faster and more accurate storm surge information in hurricane season.

Before his position at SURA he was the Technical Lead of the Marine Metadata Interoperability Initiative, where he led multi-institutional projects related to coastal informatics, developed open source software and managed a Content Management System to advance collaboration activities with more than 300 members (marinemetadata.org).

As a graduate research assistant at Drexel University he coordinated multi-institutional teams to develop a web-based information system for forecast and real time environmental data dissemination at Narragansett Bay, designed an ISO 19115 metadata hydrologic profile to be used by hydrologic (CUAHSI) observatories and coordinated the use of geospatial ontologies in different projects.

Before coming to the US, Dr. Bermudez worked in private industry as business consultant, software developer, and director of marketing for a company that provided systems that deliver real time legal information to lawyers.

Contact Luis at lbermudez[at]opengeospatial.org.

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483B Carlisle Drive,
Herndon, VA 20170 USA

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+1 301 760 7323

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+1 240 206 6011

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