Meet our OAGi Outstanding Contributors

It is my honor to announce this Spring's recipients of the OAGi Outstanding Contributors Awards. The Outstanding Contributor Awards Program contains two parts, the Outstanding Contributor Award and the Outstanding Contributing Organization Award.

The OAGi Individual Recognition Program is focused on showing appreciation for the participation and contributions made a specific participant from a member organization.

The OAGi Organizational Recognition Program is focused on showing appreciation for the contributions made by an organizational member and their participants.

This year at our Plenary Meeting on April 25, 2012 at NIST in Gaithersburg, we announced the following Outstanding Contributor winners:

- Nigel Davies, Vortx

- John Cartwright, Intel

- Jean-Claude Monney, Microsoft

- Steffen Fohn, ADP

We also announced the following Outstanding Contributing Organization winner:

- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Engineering Lab, Integration Division

The details for each Award Winner are just below. These are also posted on our website under the "Community" menu.

Please join me in thanking each winner for their many contributions to the work of OAGi.

Nigel Davies

- Nigel became a Board Member in 1998 through 2001 when at HK Systems and implemented OAGIS for them

- Then Nigel moved to Delphion from 2002 to 2003 and implemented OAGIS for them

- Then Nigel worked at Catalyst / CDC Software from 2003 to 2009 and implemented OAGIS for them

- Nigel served as OAGi Chair while at Catalyst 2004 - 2007

- Now Nigel is at Vortx from 2010 to 2012 and implemented OAGIS for them

John Cartwright

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- John joined the OAGi Policy Board in 2007

- He then co-founded the High Tech Council in 2007

- Served as Chair of the High Tech Council 2008 - 2009

- Served as Vice-Chair of Membership 2008 - 2011

- Working Groups built and delivered PTP-OTC in OAGIS for the high tech industry in 2008

- Working Groups delivered Collaborative Forecasting in OAGIS for the high tech industry in 2009

Jean-Claude Monney

- Jean Claude served as Chair of the High Tech Council 2010 - 2011

- Jean-Claude also served on the OAGi Policy Board from 2010 - 2011

- Working Groups delivered OAGIS Logistics for the high tech industry 2010

- Working Groups also delivered Trade Compliance content in 2011

- Provided marketing expertise to OAGi CEO during the Cloud and Mobile launches

Steffen Fohn

- Steffen as Vice Chair of Finance for two years while a member of the Policy Board

- Serves as Co-Chair of the OAGi Architectural Council from 2008 to present

- Serves as Chair of the HR-Gap Analysis Working Group

- OAGIS X Working Group member

- Contributed updates to the ConfirmBOD best practices document

- Contributed the Data Management best practices document

- Contributed updates to the BOD Flattener Program

- Serves on the OAGi Quality Working Group

- As a member of the HR-XML Tech Steering Committee, acts as a technical liaison between HR-XML and OAGi

National Institute of Standards and Technology,

Engineering Laboratory, Systems Integration Division

- NIST Joined OAGi in 2002

- Hosted OAGi Meeting 11 years in a row including April 2012

- Built and demonstrated a NIST Test Bed working with OAGi, AIAG, and several Solution Providers

- Worked with OAGi and ATHENA Project from Europe

- Did research with OWL to mediate the differences between dialects of OAGIS

- Collaboration with OAGi and AIAG on a Product Data Management Working Group that produced the Engineering Work Document standard in OAGIS

- NIST Schema and NDR Testing Tools

- Facilitated a large STEP / OAGIS Harmonization Project across many standards organizations and was instrumental in writing the results report of that effort.

- Facilitated OAGi participation in the NIST Ontology Summit