Frank Warmerdam, B.Math
225 Pamela Drive, #212
Mountain View, CA, 94040
Phone: (650) 701-7823
warmerdam@pobox.com
Objective
To improve geospatial data interoperability within the Geospatial industry.
Education
B.Math - Honours Computer Science (Coop), 1991
University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario
Work Experience
- July 2011 - present: GIS Data Engineer,
Google, Mountain View, CA
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- Nov 1998 - Jun 2011: Independent Software Developer
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- 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
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- development lead, and architect for Project One (later named Geomatica)
- Feb 96 - Jan 98: Manager of R&D, PCI, Richmond Hill, ON
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- 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
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- development of Works architecture (ImageWorks, GCPWorks)
- development of
GeoGateway
- 1988-1990: Software Engineer, Advanced Scientific Computing,
Waterloo, ON
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- responsible for the development of a 3D fluid flow visualization
package
Special Achievements
- (2006): Elected to the board of directors of OSGeo, and named President.
- (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