John Graybeal: MMI Project Lead and Beyond

Summary

I am leading the Marine Metadata Interoperability Project. In this role, I'm emphasizing the community's shared ownership of the work, and facilitating the entire effort to the best of my ability. I have a passing knowledge of a ridiculously large number of standards and specifications, a fairly detailed interest in semantics and meaning and ways of capturing them, and some experience leading the building and operation of computer systems. I've also been enjoying the process of building a site that is useful for a community of earth scientists and technologists.

I am the System Development Manager with the Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure project. In this role I coordinate a lot of developers, contribute to the architectural development of the system, and, like everyone else on the project, pitch in as needed to make the project successful. It just the beginning of a very exciting project!

Previously, at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, I was a Software Engineer, working primarily on oceanographic data management applications (see the SSDS web site) and operations.

Contact

You can reach me using this contact page.