Scott Simmons
Chief Standards Officer at Laramie Range Innovations, LLC
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Simmons is a veteran geoscience and geospatial standards executive with 30+ years of experience bridging geology, engineering, energy, and modeling to create practical interoperable solutions. As Chief Standards Officer at the Open Geospatial Consortium he leads global consensus-driven development of location-related standards and has previously scaled operations and standards programs across executive roles. He is a hands-on practitioner comfortable with GIS, CAD, remote sensing, 3D data representation, and multi-physics modeling, bringing operator-level understanding of energy and renewable systems to standards work. Based in Fort Collins, he also runs Laramie Range Innovations and blends academic outreach with industry practice, having lectured and presented internationally. Notably, his career traces back to field geology and industry roles at Marathon, ARCO and consulting, giving him rare depth from subsurface science to enterprise standards governance.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Geology, BS Geology at The University of Texas at AustinMS Geology, MS Geology at Southern Methodist University
Norwegian, German, Spanish, French
Github Skills (80)
wfs10
specification10
encoding10
ogc10
geographic10
api10
querying10
geotiff10
asciidoc10
geoserver10
geopackage10
gis10
shapefile9
wps9
geojson9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opengeospatial/policy
Oct 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes in 4 years 4 months
policyogcdatabases
opengeospatial/Standards_Incubator
Apr 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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