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Biography

Elysa Jones serves on the Steering Committee for the OASIS Emergency Interoperability Member Section by virtue of her position as chair of the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee.

She holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She comes to the emergency management community after over twenty years providing contractor support to the Army DoD missile defense program. In that capacity, her work ranged from data reduction and analysis of phased array sensor data to managing software support for a large scale computer simulation facility. She was involved in the early IEEE work that led to the TCP/IP standards. For the past nine years, Mrs. Jones has been the Engineering Program Manager for Warning Systems, Inc. in the design, development and deployment of over 100,000 Tone Alert Radios and numerous software controlled dissemination systems. In this capacity, she has served as a board member for the Partnership for Public Warning, works closely with the Emergency Interoperability Consortium and chairs the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee. This committee developed the first emergency data standard for communicating warnings, the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) as well as the Emergency Data Exchange Language Distribution Element (EDXL-DE) for defining routing assertions for any emergency data. The committee is now working on resource and hospital availability messaging standards in support of emergency management. In February 2006, she was awarded the first annual Leadership in Emergency Interoperability Award granted by the Emergency Interoperability Consortium.

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