Dr. Carl Reed
Executive Director, Specification Program, OpenGIS Consortium

Dr. Carl Reed is currently the Executive Director of the OGC Specification Program. In this role, he is responsible for facilitating the process by which formal OGC Implementation Specifications are developed and adopted by the OGC membership. He also facilitates the OGC Planning Committee meetings and works with the OGC Interoperability Program as a member of the architecture team.

Prior to the OGC, Reed was the vice president of geospatial marketing at Intergraph. This was after a long tenure at GIS software company Genasys II, where he served as chief technology officer for Genasys II worldwide. From 1989 to 1996, Reed was president of the Genasys U.S. operation.

Before his tenure at Genasys, Reed worked at Autometric for six years as GIS division manager, developing a variety of systems for the civilian branches of the U.S. federal government as well as for the military.

Reed received his PhD in Geography, specializing in GIS technology, from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1978. Since beginning graduate school in 1972, Reed has published dozens of professional papers, delivered hundreds of seminars, and spoken on numerous conference panels. In recognition of his contribution to the GIS industry, in 1996 Reed was voted by his peers as one of the top ten most influential people in GIS.

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