User:Tomkralidis
| Athanasios Tom Kralidis | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 30, 1972 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Senior Systems Scientist, Environment Canada |
| Website | |
| http://www.kralidis.ca/ | |
Tom is a Senior Systems Scientist for Environment Canada, where he provides technical and architectural leadership in support of EC’s geospatial information. Tom’s professional background includes key involvement in the development and integration of geospatial web standards, systems and services for the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) with Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), as well as using these principles in architecting RésEau, Canada’s water information portal.
Tom is active in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) community, lead developer of the OGC Web Map Context Documents Specification, member of the CGDI Architecture Advisory Board, as well as part of the Canadian Advisory Committee to ISO Technical Committee 211 Geographic Information / Geomatics.
Tom is a developer on the MapServer, Mapbuilder, Pycsw and OWSLib open source software projects, and part of the MapServer Project Steering Committee. Tom is a charter member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Tom holds a Bachelors degree in Geography from York University, GIS certification from Algonquin College, and Masters degree in Geography and Environmental Studies (research and dissertation in Geospatial Web Services / Infrastructure) from Carleton University. Tom is a Certified Geomatics Specialist (GIS/LIS) with the Canadian Institute of Geomatics.
