Engineer Development

David K. Arctur, Ph.D.

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Buda, Texas 78610-2604 Office: +1-512-***-****

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P rofessional Experience

Summary:

My life goal is to help nurture networks of people and ideas across domains and institutions, to advance the study and

shared understanding of Earth system sciences. I've worked in several distinct fields, with more than 35 years of graduate

study and professional experience including:

Active research, leadership, program management, and outreach for geoscience informatics and for international

geospatial data exchange standards development (1996-present);

Data modeling, programming, software engineering, technical writing, course development and professional instruction

for relational, object-oriented, and geographic database systems and applications (1977-2006);

Engineering and field operations for space exploration, telephone network maintenance, petroleum exploration and

production, and electric utilities research & development (1970-77).

Chronological overview and selected accomplishments:

Student internships at NASA (support for science experiments design for manned spacecraft operations) and

Southwestern Bell (central switch engineering support) during BSEE studies at FIT & UT Austin, 1969-74;

Oil well logging for Schlumberger Wireline Services in Africa, 1975-77;

Electric utility supply and demand simulation modeling at UT Austin for my MSEE 1977-79, followed by related work at

SRI (programming support for SRI National Energy Model) and EPRI (R&D planning studies and support), 1979-84;

Relational DBMS and object-oriented software programming and training development for various companies in Silicon

Valley including Informix (SQL, Unix), ParcPlace Systems (Smalltalk, Macintosh), and Momenta (Smalltalk, Windows,

pen input recognition GUI development), 1984-92;

GIS software development, ecosystems modeling, and urban planning studies for my PhD at the University of Florida in

Gainesville, 1992-96;

Building up software development staff and data production capability as senior scientist for the GIS software company

Laser-Scan Inc, Sterling VA, 1996-99; helped establish relationship between Laser-Scan and US DOD, leading to

Cooperative R&D Agreement between Laser-Scan and Defense Mapping Agency in 1997;

Learning and describing data models for several different application domains with GIS software company Esri 2000-

2006, published in a popular book, Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling (Esri Press, 2004);

Leading the startup OGC Interoperability Institute (an OGC affiliate member) to raise awareness of OGC geospatial data

exchange standards to the geosciences research community, 2006-08;

Serving on OGC staff as Director, Interoperability Programs, to lead OGC Web Services test beds, and to support GEOSS

and geosciences working group activities and outreach, 2008-12; and in addition:

Initiated and shepherded the relationship between OGC and WMO resulting in OGC s affiliate status with WMO

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since 2009 for meteorology, hydrology, and climate standards development.

Co-chaired GEOSS SIF since 2008.

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Attended and presented on global Earth observation system-of-systems development and interoperability, at Eye

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on Earth Abu Dhabi Summit 2011, in preparation for Rio+20 in 2012.

Invited to Advisory Boards of EarthServer and ENVIROFI (FP7 projects in Europe).

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Co-PI for NSF EarthCube Governance Community Group, helping develop initial roadmap for building governance

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structures within EarthCube, 2011-12.

As I was working on my PhD, I could see that my previous work experiences had given me various perspectives on our

societal infrastructures in relation to the environment. DBMS and GIS are useful tools for building and studying these

infrastructures; they also highlight the importance of data & model interoperability for us to better understand and

communicate about societal and Earth systems across institutional boundaries.

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Professional Experience Details:

4/12 Present: Research Fellow, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin

UT CIESS associate director Dr. David Maidment invited me to this position. Goals are to support and help organize

interdisciplinary research in geosciences across UT schools and departments; conduct seminars and webinars for outreach;

and support UT s access and influence in international standards communities.

First seminar was in May 2012, drawing key leadership and research staff from CIESS, EER, TACC, TDL, CSR and iSchool. This

has led to:

First steps in web-enabling the Geology Library holdings of geology maps currently only available for direct hardcopy

checkout.

Interest for strengthening relationship between CIESS and TACC, for use of TACC resources in hydrologic modeling.

Interest for strengthening relationship between iSchool, TDL and CIESS, for potential joint research on geoscience

knowledge management methodologies and tools.

6/08 6/12: Director, Interoperability Programs, Open Geospatial Consortium, Austin TX

My primary responsibility was to organize and lead sponsored test beds (OWS-6, OWS-7, OWS-8) to advance standards,

best practices, and cyberinfrastructures for sensor web, geoprocessing workflow, security & event architectures,

visualization, and decision support, each resulting in a set of reports & demonstrations (OWS-6, OWS-7, OWS-8). I also

initiated and led development of these videos: About OGC and OWS-8 Demonstrations Overview.

In 2008, I initiated and helped develop the relationship and MoU between OGC and WMO, which endorsed OGC s

position as an affiliated standards body and strengthened OGC working groups for hydrology, meteorology,

oceanography, climate, and other Earth system sciences.

I have given presentations and organized sessions on geoinformatics, data fusion, interoperability, and community

building at AAAS, AGU, EGU and other conferences since 2007. Through these venues and related work, I have

connected with key figures from ICSU, national research councils, and geosciences institutions in North America, Europe,

Australia, Middle East, Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan.

With the NSF EarthCube activity in 2011-12, I have connected with key figures from at least 50 NSF research centers

spanning the geosciences domains, further raising awareness of standards and processes for interoperability.

A third focus is to support the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) as co-chair of the Standards and

Interoperability Forum (SIF) within the Group on Earth Observations (GEO).

8/06 6/08: President and Chief Technology Officer, OGC Interoperability Institute, Austin TX

Directed the OGCii program for education and outreach to advance the interoperability of digital scientific data collections

in the geosciences and for institutional spatial data infrastructures (SDI). Helped plan and conduct technical workshops and

pilot studies to develop and test systems for interoperability across multiple application domains. Helped identify and

recruit government, academic, and commercial partners for specific projects, helped write grant proposals, and the

technical and executive reports of these projects. Key project during this period was for requirements analysis and

architecture of the Pennsylvania Map SDI (PAMAP). Also helped convene sessions on interoperability and open science at

AAAS conferences.

2/00 7/06: Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri)

(Esri) Interoperability Engineer, Austin TX (1/05 7/06)

Represented Esri in the Open Geospatial Consortium technical committee, serving as co-chair of three working groups. Have

written position papers and edited standards specifications. Main accomplishments were to catalyze the completion and

adoption of the GML Simple Features Profile specification, and to bring about the addition of elevations and measures

within the Simple Features for SQL specification. Have also conducted one-day geodatabase design workshops at URISA

national conferences, Esri International User Conferences, GeoTec and Geo-Alberta annual conferences.

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(Esri) Product Specialist, Austin TX (2/02 1/05)

Coauthored the book, Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling (Esri Press, 2004). Assisted in quality

assurance program for distributed geodatabase technology development. Also conducted one-day geodatabase design

workshops at URISA and Esri UC.

(Esri) Data Architect, Redlands CA (2/00 2/02)

Developed system requirements, architecture and database designs, and led development of domain-specific data models

for use with ArcGIS products, particularly for Defense/Intelligence projects and applications. Was lead data architect in a

project to build data warehouse for Defense/Intelligence community. Collaborated, coordinated with technology partners

on development projects. Prototyped application interfaces with COM/Visual Basic. Wrote technology white papers and

conducted workshops on object-oriented GIS at URISA national conferences.

12/99 2/00: Principal, DKArctur Consulting, Sterling VA

Provided systems engineering and other support for interoperability testbed projects and other standards development

initiatives for geospatial information software with the OGC. Advised clients in the areas of geospatial information

technology, trends and standards.

4/96 11/99: Chief Scientist, Laser-Scan, Inc., Sterling VA

Director of research and development activities for the US subsidiary of a UK-based GIS software company. Management

responsibilities included technical strategic planning and US-UK coordination, software development hiring & management,

and collaboration/coordination with other technology partners.

Activities and accomplishments included:

Direction of R&D projects to automate production of U.S. Dept of Defense hardcopy maps and digital geographic data

products.

Participated for Laser-Scan in OGC, serving as chair of OGC Feature SIG, co-chair of Architecture SIG, and Technical

Committee Representative to the Management Committee. Was industry co-chair of joint OGC-NIMA Geospatial IPT

Architecture Research Group during 1996-97.

Conducted investigative research and authored technical publications for conferences and journals. Key studies included

a survey of automated map conflation technology, and peer-reviewed critical examinations of NIMA s VPF standard and

the ANSI Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS).

Developed and taught one-day and three-day workshops on Object-Oriented GIS Technology for industry conferences

(GIS/LIS, GITA, URISA), and local colleges. Have been an invited speaker on emerging GIS technology at GIS/LIS, URISA,

US Geological Survey s SDTS Developer Workshop, and Transportation Research Board Conference.

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Other prior experience includes:

Graduate Research Associate, GeoPlan Center, University of Florida, Gainesville (1992-96)

Software Development Training Manager, Momenta Corp., Mountain View CA (1991-92)

Senior Instructor, ParcPlace Systems, Mountain View CA (1989-91)

Member of Technical Staff, Informix Software, Menlo Park CA (1986-89)

Principal, Sequoia Systems Consultants, Palo Alto CA (1984-86)

Planning Engineer, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto CA (1980-84)

Energy Analyst, SRI International, Menlo Park CA (1979-80)

Geophysical Engineer, Schlumberger Wireline Services, various countries in Africa (1975-77)

Education

Ph.D. Urban and Regional Planning, College of Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville (1996)

Dissertation: Design of an Extensible, Object-Oriented GIS Framework with Reactive Capability

Graduate study in Database Management and Computer Science, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (1988-89)

M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (1979)

Thesis: Implementing a Monthly Production Simulator for the Regionalized Electricity Model

B.S. With Honors in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (1975)

T eaching Experience

Software Development Training Manager, Momenta Corp., Mountain View CA (1991-92)

Senior Instructor, ParcPlace Systems, Mountain View CA (1989-91)

Member of Technical Staff, Informix Software, Menlo Park CA (1986-89)

Principal, Sequoia Systems Consultants, Palo Alto CA (1984-86)

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Publications

Books, Journal and Magazine Articles

A. Krishna Sinha, David Arctur, Ian Jackson, Linda Gundersen, Ed s. Societal Challenges and Geoinformatics, Geological

Society of America, 2011, 191 pages, ISBN 978**********.

http://rock.geosociety.org/Bookstore/default.asp?catID=9&pID=SPE482

Rob Atkinson, Keiran Millard and David Arctur, Standards Based Approaches for Cross-Domain Data Integration,

International Journal of SDI Research, 2008, http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/ijsdir/article/view/62/26.

David Arctur and Michael Zeiler, Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling, ESRI Press, 2004, 408

pages, ISBN 158948021X. (see Amazon.com listing)

David Arctur, Object-Orientation in GIS: Conceptual Overview, EOM Magazine, March 1998, pp.21-22.

David Arctur, David Hair, George Timson, E. Paul Martin and Robin Fegeas, Issues and Prospects for the Next Generation

of the Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS), Int'l Journal Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1998,

vol 12:4, pp.403-425. (PDF available on request)

Kevin Shaw, Maria Cobb, Miyi Chung, and David Arctur, Managing the Navy's First OO Digital Mapping Project, IEEE

Computer Magazine, IEEE Computer Society Press, September 1996, pp.69-74.

David Arctur, Design of an Extensible, Object-Oriented GIS Framework with Reactive Capability, Doctoral Thesis,

University of Florida, May 1996, 109 pgs, ISBN 0-591-09961-6.

Conference Papers and Workshops

GeoInformatics 2007

AAAS 2008

CYCLOPS, Rome 2008

EEA Workshop 2008

Workshop for GIS and OGC Standards in Meteorology, 2008, 2009, 2010

AGU 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

IOOS DMAC 2009

OneGeology 2009

EGU 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

ICAN Great Lakes 2010

GO-ESSP; CF Governance 2011

WCRP 2011

Eye On Earth Summit Abu Dhabi, 2011

David Arctur & Doug Adams, Best Practices for Developing Geographic Information Models, URISA Certified one-day

workshop offered at ESRI International User Conference 2005, URISA 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 national

conferences; GeoTec 2005, 2006; Geo-Alberta 2006; and Government Technology Conference-Southwest 2006, 108

pgs. Published by Urban & Regional Information Systems Association, Park Ridge, Illinois.

David Arctur & Carl Reed, Introduction to Object-Oriented Modeling for GIS, URISA Certified one-day workshop offered

at URISA 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 national conferences, 120 pgs. Published by Urban & Regional Information Systems

Association, Park Ridge, Illinois.

David Arctur, Introduction to Object-Oriented GIS Technology, one-day workshop updated each year and presented at

industry conferences GIS/LIS 96, GIS/LIS'97, GIS/LIS'98, GITA'98, GITA'99, URISA'97, URISA'98, and URISA'99, 100 pgs.

Published by Urban & Regional Information Systems Association, Park Ridge, Illinois.

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David Arctur, Eman Anwar, Sharma Chakravarthy, Maria Cobb, Miyi Chung, Kevin Shaw, and John Alexander,

Implementation of a Rule-Based Framework for Managing Updates in an Object-Oriented VPF Database, Proceedings of

GIS/LIS'95 Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November 1995, pp. 1-10. (Download PDF file.)

Miyi Chung, Maria Cobb, Kevin Shaw, and David Arctur, An Object-Oriented Approach for Handling Spatial Topology in

VPF Products, Proceedings of GIS/LIS'95 Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November 1995, pp. 163-174. (Download

PDF file.)

Maria Cobb, Miyi Chung, Kevin Shaw, and David Arctur, A Self-Adjusting Indexing Structure for Spatial Data,

Proceedings of GIS/LIS'95 Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November 1995, pp. 182-192. (Download PDF file.)

David Arctur, Eman Anwar, John Alexander, Sharma Chakravarthy, Miyi Chung, Maria Cobb, and Kevin Shaw,

Comparison and Benchmarks for Import of Vector Product Format (VPF) Geographic Data from Object-Oriented and

Relational Database Files, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Advances in Spatial Databases,

SSD'95, Portland, Maine, August 1995, Springer-Verlag, pp.368-384. (Download PDF file.)

Naval Research Laboratory Reports

Note: Some of the following are internal research reports. Contact Kevin Shaw at Stennis Space Center,

Mississippi USA, for information on the OVPF Project, which has been principally funded by the US National

Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), formerly National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).

Miyi Chung, Maria Cobb, Kevin Shaw, David Arctur, "Exploitation of World-Wide Web to Support Network Updating of

VPF Mapping Database at a Feature Level," Technical Report No. NRL/MR/7441--95-7713, Naval Research Laboratory,

May 1996.

Maria Cobb, Miyi Chung, Kevin Shaw, and David Arctur, "Object-Oriented Database Design and Implementation Issues

for Object Vector Product Format (OVPF)," Technical Report No. NRL/FR/7441--95-9641, Naval Research Laboratory,

July 1996.

David Arctur, John Alexander, Miyi Chung, Maria Cobb, Kevin Shaw, Survey of Spatial Topology: Issues and

Approaches," Technical Report No. NRL/MR/7441--96-7719, Naval Research Laboratory, September 1996.

Kevin Shaw, Miyi Chung, Maria Cobb, David Arctur, John Alexander, and Eman Anwar, "Object-Oriented Database

Exploitation Within the GGIS Data Warehouse," Research Report to NRL and DMA, April 1995.

Kevin Shaw, John Alexander, David Arctur, and Robert E. Williams, "Development of an Object-Oriented Digital MC&G

Database System for Modeling and Simulation Support," Research Report to NRL, DMA and DMSO, September 1994.

Programming Instruction Manuals

Note: These are the property of the respective companies listed. In most cases the versions I helped write are no

longer available.

Momenta Education Services (1991, 1992) Application Programming for the Momenta Computer. Principal author of

course materials published by Momenta Corp., Mountain View, CA.

ParcPlace Systems Education Services (1990, 1991) Introduction to Smalltalk Programming. Coauthor of course

materials published by ParcPlace Systems, Sunnyvale, CA.

Informix Customer Training (1987, 1988) Advanced Informix 4GL Programming. Principal author of course materials

published by Informix Software, Inc., Menlo Park, CA.

(1987, 1988) Advanced SQL Programming. Coauthor of course materials published by Informix Software, Inc., Menlo

Park, CA.

Professional Affiliations

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

European Geosciences Union (EGU) (Life member)

Geological Society of America (GSA)

Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) (Senior Member)

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Pro Bono Professional Appointments and Activities

Advisory Board, EarthServer

Advisory Board, ENVIROFI

Co-chair, Standards Interoperability Forum (SIF) for the Group on Earth Observation (GEO)

Acronyms and Links

AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science, www.aaas.org

ACM Association for Computing Machinery, www.acm.org

AGU American Geophysical Union, www.agu.org

DBMS database management system (Wikipedia entry)

EGU European Geosciences Union, www.egu.eu

EPRI Electric Power Research Institute, http://my.epri.com

FIT Florida Institute of Technology, www.fit.edu

GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems, www.earthobservations.org

GIS geographic information system (Wikipedia entry)

GML OGC Geography Markup Language, http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml

GSA Geological Society of America, www.geosociety.org

ICSU International Council for Science, www.icsu.org

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, www.ieee.org

MoU Memorandum of Understanding (Wikipedia entry)

NASA US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, www.nasa.gov

NSF US National Science Foundation, www.nsf.gov

OGC Open Geospatial Consortium, www.opengeospatial.org

OWS OGC Web Services test bed initiatives, http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/programs/ip

SQL Structured Query Language, used by many commercial DBMS s (Wikipedia entry)

SRI Stanford Research Institute, www.sri.com

UT University of Texas at Austin, www.utexas.edu

WMO World Meteorological Organization, www.wmo.int

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