[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Ben Tuttle

[Jeff McKenna]

Forwarding Ben Tuttle nomination by Jeffrey Johnson. The 2017 member 
nominations list was updated [1].

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


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I would like to nominate Ben Tuttle as a Charter Member of OSGeo.

BenTuttle is a R&D Technologist at the National Geospatial
Intelligence Agency leading efforts to deliver Open Source Geospatial
tools as core infrastructure and services for NGA and its customers
across the US Federal Government. Ben is focused on development and
delivery of web and mobile geospatial applications to enhance data
delivery, analysis, and decision-making. He has authored and
co-authored papers in journals including PE&RS, Geography Compass,
GeoJournal, Environmental Management, and Remote Sensing of
Environment. He is currently leading a team of developers to deliver
new capabilities for first responders, search and rescue teams,
security personnel, and military users while revolutionizing the
underlying infrastructure. The team is building on cloud based
environment with a full DevOps pipeline that includes automated
security scanning to shorten delivery timelines and fully embrace a
secure CI/CD process. Ben has attended and participated in numerous
FOSS4G and his agency is now among the key sponsors of FOSS4G.

Best regards,

Jeff Johnson