Information International Associates
Hires Former NIST Executive
 Oak
Ridge, TN. Information International Associates (IIa)
announces that Dr. John Rumble, formerly of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), has joined IIa’s executive
management team. Rumble’s expertise in scientific data
management and scientific informatics, as well as his broad scientific
background, expands the company’s breadth of experience
and knowledge in managing scientific and technical information.
Dr. Rumble assumes the position of IIa Technical Director. In
this position, he will develop and lead large-scale informatics
and information technology projects for government and private
industry.
During Rumble’s nearly a quarter of a century
with NIST, he led development of scientific and technical database
standards, including an international standard for industrial data
exchange. Also under his leadership, NIST produced and sold more
than 70 PC databases of scientific information, generating millions
of dollars of annual revenue. Dr. Rumble led NIST into the Internet
and Web eras with the release of over 25 online data systems in
virtually every area of science and engineering. When he left NIST,
Rumble had oversight of direct customer service throughout the
world as Chief of the NIST Measurement Services Division. The Division
provides fee-based services to make instruments and measurements
directly traceable to the fundamental units. It also provides critically
evaluated databases in many areas of science and technology.
In 1996, he was elected to the Executive Committee
of International CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology),
which represents the national academies of the world. Rumble is
now Past-President of CODATA following the completion of a four-year
term as President in 2002.
In addition to his service to CODATA, Dr. Rumble
is a Fellow of the American Society for Testing and Materials,
a Fellow of ASM International, a member of the Russian Federation
Academy of Metrology, a Fellow of the International Union of Pure
and Applied Chemistry, and recipient of the U.S. Department of
Commerce Silver Medal. In 1993–94, Rumble was a Department
of Commerce Fellow working in the Office of Science and Technology
Policy in the Executive Office of the President. He has written
and lectured extensively on scientific data management. Dr. Rumble
holds a Ph.D. in chemical physics from Indiana University. Prior
to doing research in computational chemistry, he was an analytical
chemist for two years.
Founded in Oak Ridge in 1988, IIa has a world-class
reputation in STI services, including information policy and standards
development, information technology, library and information center
management, intelligence work, and base operations support services
for federal laboratories and military bases.
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