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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:03:35 -0500
From: Greg Buehler <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: MARK REICHARDT JOINS OGC STAFF
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PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Jeff Burnett, Vice President
Open GIS Consortium, Inc., Wayland, MA 01778
tel: +1-508-655-5858
fax: +1-508-655-2237
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MARK REICHARDT JOINS OGC STAFF

On December 12, 2000, the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced that
Mark Reichardt joined the OGC team in November 2000 as Director of
Marketing and Public Sector Programs.  Mr. Reichardt joins OGC after
leaving a successful 20-year career with the federal government.  Since
1980, Mr. Reichardt has been involved in key federal mapping and geospatial
programs.

David Schell, President of OGC, said about Mr. Reichardt's new role, "We
are extremely fortunate to have Mark Reichardt working for OGC.  A
passionate believer in a spatial data infrastructure as accessible as the
web, Mark's consensus building experience in federal mapping and geospatial
programs will be a vital asset to our members' success."

While with the Defense Mapping Agency in the 1980's and early 1990's, Mr.
Reichardt was involved in a number of technology modernization and
production programs.  In the mid 1990's, he was a principle member of a DoD
Geospatial Information Integrated Product Team (GIIPT), chaired by the
Director of the newly formed National Imagery and Mapping Agency to help
transition the DoD mapping mission to a more flexible and responsive
geo-information based paradigm.  Under Mr. Reichardt's leadership, the
GIIPT Production Team validated the ability of commercial off the shelf
hardware and software to meet many of the DoD functional requirements for
geospatial production operations.

In 1998, Mr. Reichardt accepted an temporary assignment with the
Administration to improve federal to local coordination in the use of
geospatial information and technologies to improve decision-making.  In
early 1999, Mr. Reichardt was selected to establish and lead an
international Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) program for the Federal
Geographic Data Committee.  In this position, Mr. Reichardt helped to
establish globally compatible national and regional SDI practices in
Africa, South America, Europe, and the Caribbean.  He was
instrumental in establishing several nation-to-nation collaborative
agreements on SDI issues, and has been a key player in the advancement of
the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Initiative.

Mr. Reichardt holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture from the
University of Maryland.  He has also pursued graduate studies in
Telecommunications Management at Maryland. Mr. Reichardt lives in
Darnestown, Maryland with his wife and two children.

OGC is an international industry consortium of over 200 companies,
government agencies and universities working together to develop commercial
geoprocessing standards.

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