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Appendix B: Biosketches of Workshop Speakers
Appendix B: Biosketches of Workshop Speakers
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B Biosketches of Workshop Speakers Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz, chief scientist for Skyhook, is responsible for the research and development of Skyhook's positioning technology.
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Dr. Armstrong has served as North American editor of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, served on the editorial boards of six journals, and has published more than 100 academic papers, including articles in a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals such as Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Photogrammetic Engineering and Remote Sensing, Geographical Analysis, Statistics and Medicine, Mathematical Geology, Computers and Geosciences, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Parallel Computing, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, and Journal of the American Society for Information Science.
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He has maintained an association with a diverse range of organizations, including the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, California Public Utilities Commission, IEEE National Electrical Safety Code and National Electrical Code committees, and Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC)
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He has received numerous awards, including the FEMA Director's Distinguished Service Award, the National States Geographic Information Council Outstanding Service Award, the Transamerica Pyramid Award for Business Reengineering, and the NASA National Resources Award for lidar commercialization.
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He teaches courses on hazards geography, emergency management, and GIS. John Davis is the lead network design and development engineer at Sprint responsible for implementation of the Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS)
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system. He also leads efforts within the NWS to improve mobile alerting through enhancements to NWS alert generation tools and CAP.
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J.T. Johnson co-founded Weather Decision Technologies, a global weather information company helping businesses and individuals make decisions related to weather, in 2000 where he currently serves as the chief technology officer.
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He is a member of IEEE and past president of the IEEE Broadcast Symposium, contributing author to The NAB Engineering Handbook, Editions 7, 8, and 9, and presenter of numerous papers in the field of radio systems engineering to the National Association of Broadcasters' Engineering Conference, International Engineering Consortium, Wireless Communications Association, and has served as a delegate to the International Telecommunication Union plenary meetings in Geneva on behalf of the North American Broadcasters Association. He is past president of the Audio Engineering Society (Washington DC Section)
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Her research has been published in outlets such the Handbook of Crisis Communication, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journal of Communication Management, Journal of Public Relations Research, and Natural Hazards Review. She received her Ph.D.
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He is the editor-in-chief of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journal Transactions on Internet Technology and serves as associate editor of Transactions on Information and System Security and IEEE Transactions on Computers, and he stepped down as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering in 2012.
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He regularly advises a variety of spatial technology companies on such matters as licensing and distribution agreements, privacy policies, and spatial data audits. He also works as a consultant on developing a legal and policy framework for national spatial data infrastructures.
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While working for Florida, he was awarded three Distinguished Service Awards. As a member of the Florida Emergency Preparedness Association, he helped develop regional response team procedures bringing local emergency managers to the assistance of impacted counties and the state.
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in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and completed her postdoctoral training at the Natural Hazards Center. She is also a special term appointee with the Center for Integrated Emergency Preparedness at Argonne National Laboratory.
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Witmer was employed with the Defense Information Systems Agency for 9 years, serving across various programs as a communications systems engineer, program manager, and portfolio manager for Mobile Communications in the Presidential Communications Upgrade Program. Just prior to joining FEMA, he served as the White House Communications Agency deputy director of enterprise architecture, strategic planning, and systems engineering.
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