Andrew Macleod

Andrew is the Manager, Technical Projects at the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) within Federation University Australia. He is based at the Mt Helen campus near Ballarat, Victoria Australia. Andrew completed a Bachelor of Computing at the University of Ballarat, followed by an Honors in Applied Science (Information Technology). Employed at CeRDI since 1999 and leading the technical team within CeRDI since 2002, Andrew has extensive experience in web and geospatial technologies with a particular interest in data standards and interoperability. While much of his work is applied within Australia, Andrew has been an active participant in several Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) domain working groups, standards working groups and interoperability experiments across Soils, Groundwater and Environmental data. Currently enrolled as a PhD candidate supported by the Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre, focused on the application of semantic interoperability within Agriculture and Food.