Mini-CV for Bruce Bargmeyer

 

Employment

 

!                   1950's and 60's: Farm boy - bucked hay, milked cows, gathered eggs, fed ducks, slopped pigs, shoveled manure, grew garden

!                   1967-1969: Peace Corps Volunteer, Philippines - taught science in secondary school, assisted doctors to develop a family planning group

!                   1970-1990: U.S. Department of Labor - initiated and managed computer technology research, development and demonstration projects on a national, interagency scale. Oversaw operations and approved budgets of state Employment Security Agency computing operations in Arizona, California, Nevada and Hawaii. Participated in national and international standards development. Organized collaborations of multiple government agencies to fund and pursue projects involving massive data inputs such as the entire output of each decennial census. Utilized world-class computer and mass storage installation to advance the state-of-the-art for management, access and display of (then) enormous quantities of socio-economic and environmental information. Researched, developed, demonstrated and deployed office automation and networking software on early versions of minicomputers and progressed the projects to take advantage of PCs as they emerged.

!                   1970-1971: San Francisco State University - taught undergraduate information technology courses

!                   1973-1974: U.S. General Accounting Office - expert, information technology issues (while attending graduate school at Harvard).

!                   1984-1989: University of California, Berkeley - taught information technology courses at UC Berkeley Graduate School and taught Information Resource Management courses at UC Berkeley Extension.

!                   1987-1989: University of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Computer Scientist - managed computer science research and development projects in areas of interactive computing, distributed computing, database management, metadata management and socioeconomic/environmental information systems. Participated in national and international standards development organizations making standards in the areas of data management, data elements, and repositories.

!                   1990-2001: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Led EPA in a standards-based approach to improve data management and information access through metadata and semantics management.  Served as chairperson of an International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) standards committee and an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards committee developing techniques and technologies for metadata registration, data standardization, data management and data interchange. This advanced Agency strategic initiatives that depend on staff and public ability to access to cross-media data (air, water, solid waste, etc.)--which is stored in independent systems dispersed among program offices and other local, state and federal organizations. Managed intergovernmental and international collaborative efforts to develop and demonstrate innovative web technologies for data discovery, access and interchange. For example, developed an international demonstration of agent/broker/mediator technology for retrieving data via ontology-based queries to heterogeneous, dispersed information systems. Organized work on W3C recommendations for XML-Schema, XML-Query, and XML Resource Description Framework standards, developing demonstrations of these emerging technologies. Created industry best practices and established EPA as an information technology leader in metadata management, developing reference implementations of metadata registries. Created a test-bed terminology reference system that draws together concepts from terminology standards, thesaurus standards, metadata management standards, data element standards, and ontology research. The test-bed underlies work to advance the capabilities of search engines, data base management systems, electronic data interchange, and agent-based systems.

!                   March 2001-Current: University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Staff Computer Scientist - perform research and development projects in areas of metadata registries, XML registries, semantic web, and terminology. Manage national and international projects to develop and demonstrate advanced technologies. Organize interagency and intergovernmental cooperative projects in the area of Ecoinformatics--the application of information science and information technology for the benefit of the environment. Chair, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 - Data Management and Interchange. Vice-chair ANSI INCITS L8 - Metadata/ Member W3C Advisory Committee and participate in other industry consortia meetings.

 

 

Education

!                   1961-1967: Washington State University, BS - Chemistry and Zoology

!                   1973-1975: Harvard University, MPA - Kennedy School of Government - Information Technology and Public Policy

!                   1976-1978: UC Berkeley - Independent Graduate Research

 

Current work related activities

!                   1991-Current: Guest researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Information Technology Laboratory

!                   1997-Current: Chair, International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC), Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1), Subcommittee 32 - Data Management and Interchange (SC32)

!                   1992-Current: Vice Chair, InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), L8 – Metadata Management

!         1998-Current: Member, Advisory Committee, World Wide Web Consortium

!                   1994-1997: Chair, International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC), Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1), Subcommittee 14 - Data Engineering