Biography of Ken Sochats - University of Pittsburgh
Biography of Ken Sochats | |
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|Ken Sochats has over thirty years of experience in the Computer and Telecommunications Industries and Academia. He was a |
|2007 semi-finalist for the Christopher Columbus Award, an award established by the US Congress. He is the winner of the 2005|
|Central Appalachian Conference Award for GIS Service and the Carnegie Science Center 2002 award winner for IT excellence. He|
|holds advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration. His work resulted in several inventions and |
|patents. He has taught over twenty-five different courses in telecommunications, computing, systems and business. |
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|He helped co-found BroadStreet Communications Corporation a next-generation telecommunications company. BroadStreet has |
|attracted over $180 million in startup capital. He served as Vice President of Information Systems. |
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|He served as the manager of the Link To Learn Project out of The Governor’s Office of Information Technology. This group |
|annually produced the Pennsylvania Technology Atlas. The Progress and Freedom Foundation named the Link To Learn Project |
|their 1998 Best Practice in the Educational Technology category. |
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|Ken serves on the Advisory Council of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region III. He is an affiliated faculty|
|of the PA Legislative Office of Research Liaison. His is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh |
|Regional Business Alliance for Homeland Security. He is Chair of the Education and Research Team of the Regional Joint |
|Readiness Center, a member of the Oversight Committee of the Pittsburgh Regional After School Initiative and Co-sponsor of |
|the annual CIO Forum and Executive IT Summit. |
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|He has served on The Telecommunications advisory panel of Governor Ridge’s Pennsylvania Regional Development Committee and |
|as a consultant to the Keystone Telecommunications Project and the Governor's Policy Committee. He served on the Governor's |
|Year 2000 Technical Outreach Committee, which was responsible for helping Pennsylvanians prepare for the Y2K computer |
|problem. His group at the Joint State/Federal Y2K Conference was awarded the University Continuing Education Association’s |
|Award of Excellence. |
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|He has served as a consultant to over 35 organizations of all types. Government/agencies at the federal, state and local |
|levels include Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State of New York, Westmoreland County, US Departments of Defense, Agriculture |
|and Energy and NASA. Private firms include ALCOA, USAirways, Penn Access, Hyperion, Brightline, American Hytech and numerous|
|smaller companies. |
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|Ken Sochats is an internationally recognized researcher in the areas of electronic recordkeeping and metadata. His papers on|
|electronic recordkeeping and metadata have been translated into fourteen languages and are in use in over forty-two nations.|
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|The government of Australia cites Metadata Requirements for Evidence by Bearman and Sochats as a significant source for |
|their Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies. |
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|His papers have been listed as recommended background reading for both International Standards Organization (ISO) meetings |
|hosted by Mitre Corporation for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). His work has been used by the US |
|Patent and Trademark Office as a guide for retaining intellectual property information. |
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|His publications include three books and over 30 Journal papers and conference proceeding papers. |
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