Stephane Fellah

Lead Senior Software Engineer at SmartRealm LLC

Washington D.C. Metro Area

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  • CTO at Ima/Geo

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Education
  • Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc (Montpellier II)
  • Ecole supérieure d'Informatique, Electronique et Automatique
  • Ecole des Pupilles de l'Air (Air Force Academy)
  • Lycee Stanislas

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Stephane Fellah’s Summary

Stephane Fellah’s Specialties:

Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL,Reasoner)
Geospatial Semantic Web
OpenGIS standards specs and implementations (GML,WCS,WMS,WAS,WPS,WFS,IA,Catalog)
XML technology
ISO TC 211 specifications
Web Services technologies
XML Technologies
Digital Photogrammetry (Socet Set, Softplotter, Orthengine, Z/I Imaging).
Remote Sensing
Image Processing,Computer vision
GIS (PCI, ERDAS, ERMAPPER, ESRI, MapInfo)
Computer Graphics
Java, C++, C, Python, LISP, Prolog, Pascal

Stephane Fellah’s Experience

  • Lead Software Engineer

    SmartRealm LLC

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

    SmartRealm is a spin-off of Image Matters LLC that specializes in Social Business Geo-Intelligence. The platform is based on KnowledgeSmarts, a semantic web development platform I built over the years at Image Matters LLC. The new start-up is directed by Barry Glick, founder of MapQuest and ex-VP of Navteq,

  • Lead Software Engineer/Product Manager

    Image Matters LLC

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2004 — May 2009 (4 years 7 months)

    Lead Engineer on KnowledgeSmarts product line, a geospatial semantic web platform enabling cost-effective geospatial data and processes integration.

  • Web Chief Architect/Senior Software Developer

    PCI Geomatics

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 1999 — November 2004 (5 years 4 months)

    I was the Chief Web Architect of PCI Geomatics Inc. and in charge of developing OGC compliant Web-based products and the metadata tracking framework for PCI’s GeoCapacity Centre Initiative. During this time, I represented his company at Open Geospatial Consortium and ISO TC 211 Canada team . I authored and implemented numerous OGC specifications such as:
    * OWS Messaging Framework (OMF)
    * Web Coordinate Transformation Service (WCTS)
    * Web Processing Service (WPS)
    * Web Coverage Service (WCS)
    * Web Terrain Service (WTS)
    * SensorML
    * Image Archive
    * Image Catalog
    * Web Annotation Service

    During this period, I participated in a number of OGC interoperability test-beds including OGC Web Service Initiative (OWS) phase 1.1, 1.2 and 2, Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative (CIPI) 1.1 and 1.2. I showcased some complex service chaining, including UAV video imagery acquisition planning, archiving, cataloging and ortho-rectification on demand using OGC Web Services standards.

  • Image Processing Dept Manager

    Maps Geosystems

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 1997 — August 1999 (2 years 7 months)

    At Map Geosystems, I was the Image Processing Dept Manager and worked on numerous large digital photogrammetry, mapping, GIS and photo-interpretation projects at different scale (1:2500 to 1:60 000) in many countries including United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Kenya, West Africa, Seychelles islands, Madagascar, Europe.

  • CTO

    Ima/Geo

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 1995 — February 1997 (2 years 2 months)

    I was the co-founder and CTO of IMA/GEO (Paris, France) and has introduced digital photogrammetry in the French marketplace. I was leading a team of 19 people and was the project manager for numerous mapping contracts for the European Commission and French Government.

Stephane Fellah’s Education

  • Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc (Montpellier II)

    M.Sc/DEA , Computer Vision , 1994 — 1995

    Dissertation about edge detectors on color imagery

  • Ecole supérieure d'Informatique, Electronique et Automatique

    B.Sc/M.Sc , Computer Science, Electronics, Computer Vision , 1992 — 1995

    Specialization in computer vision and graphics in last year of cursus

    Activities and Societies:
    Engineers Without Borders : Project Leader for humanitarian mission in North-East of Brazil. Fund Raising, Project preparation and execution on site.

  • Ecole des Pupilles de l'Air (Air Force Academy)

    Superior and Special Mathematics 1988 — 1991

    Math Sup & maths spé P, Physics, Chemistry, Maths.
    Airforce Cadet

    Activities and Societies:
    Mono propeller airplane license

  • Lycee Stanislas

    Baccalaureat C , Maths, Physics , 1984 — 1988

Additional Information

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Stephane Fellah’s Interests:

Chess, Biking, Swimming, skating, skying, semantic, AI, neurosciences, 3D

Stephane Fellah’s Groups:

Ashburn Chess Club
Washington DC Semantic Web Meetup
Active Member of ASPRS in 2001
Member of OpenGeospatial Consortium (OGC) since 1999
Co-Chair of OGC Web Coverage WG (2002-2003)
Co-chair of OGC Information Community and Semantic WG in OGC (2002-Today)
Mission Leader and organizer of 2 Humanitarian missions in Ceara (Brazil) for Engineers Without Borders (1993-1995)
Member of ISO TC 211 Canadian team (2002-2004).

  •    EXPERTS FRANCOPHONES en GÉOSPATIAL
  •    GIS and Geo Technology Professionals - Now 4,000+ strong!
  •    GIS
  •    Semantic Web
  •    Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
  •    3D Visualisation and Graphics Programming
  •    Semantic Web Research
  •    EERIE Alumni
  •    Semantic Technologies Group
  •    SEMANTIC SOCIAL NETWORK 2.0 - One World!
  •    Geospatial Data Integration
  •    GML
  •    Spatial Cloud Computing (SC2)
  •    Geographic information standards

Stephane Fellah’s Honors:

2005 Innovations in Geospatial Intelligence BAA Award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
Employee of the year 2002 at PCI Geomatics

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