Frank Warmerdam, B.Math

3594 Foymount Rd.
R.R.2 Eganville, ON
K0J 1T0
CANADA

Home: (613) 754-2041
Cell: (613) 635-3771
warmerdam@pobox.com

Objective

To improve geospatial data interoperability within the Geospatial industry by acting as a consultant/contractor to many industry organizations.

B.Math - Honours Computer Science (Coop), 1991
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

Nov 98 - present: Independent Software Developer

Global Geomatics: Shape, GeoTIFF, MrSID, and GXF OGDI drivers
Geosoft: GeoTIFF, Shape, Arc/Info Binary Grid
Safe Software: ISO 8211/SDTS Reader, S-57 Reader, NTF Reader, TIGER/Line reader, Raster readers
Atlantis Scientific/Vexcel: OpenEV Viewer
Geospatial data access and translation projects too numerous to list for clients including ESRI, Autodesk, Avenza, Leica Geosystems, Intergraph, SANZ, Cadcorp, ERMapper, PCI Geomatics, i-Cubed, Keyhole (Google), USGS, UN FAO and Delorme.

Jan 98 - Nov 98: Senior Software Engineer, PCI, Richmond Hill, ON

Feb 96 - Jan 98: Manager of R&D, PCI, Richmond Hill, ON

management of the 20 person PCI Richmond Hill development team
develop R&D development plans in combination with the Product Development Committee
chair the Inter Company Technical Committee, to manage, and coordinate inter company development efforts in the PCI Group and with PCI Technology Partners

May 91 - Feb 96: Senior Software Engineer, PCI, Richmond Hill, ON

1988-1990: Software Engineer, Advanced Scientific Computing, Waterloo, ON

(2006): Elected to the board of directors of OSGeo, and named President.
(2006-): Member of Open Geospatial Consorium Simple Features Revision Working Group.
(2005): Won the Sol Katz Award for contributions to Geospatial and Open Source Software.
(2000-): Co-maintainer of libtiff.
(2000): Member of OpenGIS Coordinate Transforms Specification Revision Working Group.
(1999-): Maintainer of PROJ.4 projections library.
(1998-): Maintainer of libgeotiff, and the GeoTIFF web site.
(1998-): Development of GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library), a architecture for high performance raster translators.
(1992) initial architecture and implementation of GeoGateway (then GDB), a format abstraction API for raster, and vector geospatial data