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GDT Enhances Transportation Product Team

28 August 2000

GDT Enhances Transportation Product Team to Meet Needs of GDT's Diverse Customer Set

    LEBANON, N.H.--Aug. 28, 2000--Geographic Data Technology, Inc., a developer of premier map databases, today announced that it has restructured its transportation product team to better coordinate the street database needs of its diverse customer set. The new team is charged with continuing to enhance GDT's transportation product line to meet the evolving needs of customers in markets such as in-car navigation, internet mapping, automatic vehicle location, call-center and concierge services, telematics, and mobile information services.
    Jesse Sheridan has been promoted to director of database development. In this role, Sheridan will be responsible for defining, standardizing, documenting, and streamlining the evolution of GDT's databases in the multiple markets it serves. Sheridan has been with GDT for more than six years in variety of roles including product management and customer support.
    Patrick Curley will assume the role of transportation product manager with the responsibility for overseeing the development and creation of GDT's transportation product line, which includes the Dynamap(R)/Transportation and Dynamap/Routing street databases as well as the Transportation Add-On Suite, Dynamap/Traffic Counts and GDT Points of Interest. Curley joined GDT's product development team in 1998 and has been responsible for the management of several of GDT's core street network and boundary products. Before joining GDT, Curley was director of development at BLR Data, which was acquired by GDT in September 1998.
    Savitri Beharry, Tom Gilligan and Tim Nowack will serve as transportation project leads with responsibility for organizing, tracking, and coordinating schedules for the transportation product line. Beharry, who joined GDT last year, will be responsible for the standard transportation product suite. Gilligan, who joined GDT in April, and Nowack, who has been with GDT since July 1999, will be responsible for special project areas within the transportation product line.
    Paul Hathaway will join the product team as manager of transportation product quality. In this role, Hathaway will oversee the design and implementation of systems to ensure that GDT's data sets meet customer requirements as well as GDT's high standards for quality, accuracy and functionality. Hathaway joined GDT in June 1999 as part of the consultative services group where he performed quality analysis of data shipments. In October 1999, he was named manager of order fulfillment, a position he held until moving into the transportation data product team.
    "The enhancements to the transportation product team represent a continued investment of GDT resources into this product line, and are evidence of the growing importance of these products within the markets GDT serves," said Dan Adams, GDT's vice president of transportation data products. "GDT's nationwide street and address database provides the foundation for applications that model geographic reality, whether those applications reside on an in-car system, a PC, a cell phone, or a handheld device. As the location-based services marketplace continues to evolve, GDT's transportation product team will ensure that our products continue to provide the coverage and quality required to meet the demands of today's mobile population."