George Percivall
OGC
CTO, Chief Engineer
Annapolis MD
As CTO and Chief Engineer of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), George Percivall is responsible for the OGC Interoperability Program and the OGC Compliance Program. His roles include articulating OGC standards as a coherent architecture, as well as addressing implications of technology and market trends on the OGC baseline. Prior to joining OGC, Mr. Percivall was Chief Engineer with Hughes Aircraft for NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) - Landsat/Terra release; Principal engineer for NASA’s Digital Earth Office; and represented NASA in OGC, ISO and CEOS. He was Director of the GST’s Geospatial Interoperability Group. Previously, he led developments in Intelligent Transportation Systems with the US Automated Highway Consortium and General Motors Systems Engineering including the EV1 program. He began his career with Hughes as a Control System Engineer on GOES/GMS satellites. He holds a BS in Engineering Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois - Urbana.