Global Justice XML Data Model Developer's Workshop

John Wandelt

Senior Research Scientist
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory

As a senior research scientist for Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory of Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Mr. Wandelt has served as project and technical director on multiple projects. He has made significant technical contributions in the disciplines of computer networking and communications systems, distributed processing, secure information systems, software engineering, open systems architecture, law enforcement technologies, simulation, and systems integration. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Computer Science from Brigham Young University and a Master of Science, Information and Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. As project director and technical lead for the Criminal Information Sharing Alliance (CISA), formerly Southwest Border States Anti-Drug Information System (SWBSADIS), he has implemented a system for secure exchange of multimedia criminal intelligence information between heterogeneous databases across State and Federal agency administrative boundaries. Building blocks such as Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI), Extensible Markup Language (XML) schemas based on the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM), and Web services provide an interoperable platform for advanced services such as subscription, temporal, and spatial queries; link discovery, analysis, and visualization; and case-based reasoning across the enterprise. Since its inception Mr. Wandelt has played a key role in the Global XML Structure Task Force (XSTF) defining the vision and content of the Global XML initiative. Mr. Wandelt currently serves as the GTRI project director responsible for the technical implementation and evolution of GJXDM releases and associated tools. Under a contract with SEARCH, Mr. Wandelt manages the development of the next generation Justice Information Exchange Model (JIEM) Modeling Tool which is capable modeling “as is” and “to be” exchanges in a GJXDM-aware environment.