FALLS CHURCH, VA -- 08/26/08 --
The Data Interchange Standards Association
announced the winners of the 2008 Edward A. Guilbert e-Business
Professional Award and the Earl J. Bass e-Business Achievement Award.
Since 1991, DISA has awarded the Guilbert Award, recognizing significant
career contributions in e-business message development, as the highest
level of recognition bestowed upon a professional who demonstrates
outstanding lifetime leadership in the e-business standards field.
The award is named in honor of Edward A. Guilbert, who served as a
logistics officer during the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and later created the
first system to exchange data electronically. Nominees are evaluated on
their scope, duration and quality of service towards the advancement of
e-business and electronic data interchange (EDI) standards.
The 2008 Guilbert Award is granted to Peter Randlev, who retired from IBM
as a Senior Engineer - Manager, after 50 years of service there. Highlights
of Mr. Randlev's career include his work to patent attaching a keyboard to
a computer and developing security systems and for his role in creating the
IBM Model 5275, a unit for numerically controlled machine tools. Mr.
Randlev is the principal developer of numerous X12 transactions and has
also made contributions in the international standards arena. He also
served as chairman of the X12 Product Data subcommittee for five years.
The Bass Award honors outstanding achievements and leadership in support of
e-business message development using EDI standards and eXtensible Markup
Language (XML) messages during the past year.
The Bass Award recognizes Earl ("Buddy") J. Bass, the principal author of
the first EDI standards manuals and the simple, coded syntax notes and
terminology used to describe conditional data element requirements within
segments. Nominees are assessed based on their achievements and leadership
in the development and use of EDI standards and XML messages over the past
year.
The 2008 Bass Awards recipients are David Feinberg, a nationally known
health care leader in X12 and HIPAA standards, and Terry Garber, who has
dedicated over twenty years of her professional career towards developing
more than a dozen EDI transaction sets for X12, including 813 Electronic
Filing of Tax Return Data, and the XML format in the Modernization of
Electronic Filing for business and individual tax return submissions in the
United States with both Federal and State Governments.
In the past year, Mr. Feinberg, President of Rensis Corporation, has worked
collaboratively with X12, Health Level 7 (HL7) and health plans on the
development of new plan-to-plan personal health record standards, including
data portability between health plans. He is known as an excellent EDI
resource and educator.
Ms. Garber, Manager of New Application Development, Information Resource
Management Division, South Carolina Department of Revenue, has served as
the central state coordinator for the rollout of the IRS-modernized
Federal/State 1120 Corporate, the 1065 Partnership and the 1040 Individual
Income e-File Programs, using standards developed under Ms. Garber's
leadership of a task group including states, IRS, tax software developers,
and tax services providers. Ms. Garber is highly visible in the nationwide
Streamlined Sales Tax (SST) Registration System, designed to simplify tax
filing for thousands of businesses, and authored standard SST XML schemas
necessary to implement streamlined registration, filing, payment and audit
procedures.
"We are honored to recognize these individuals whose dedicated commitment
to advances in the X12 industry have such a profound impact on the
efficiency of global data exchange," said Jerry Connors, President, DISA.
These prestigious awards will be presented at the ASC X12 Fall 2008
meeting, September 21 - 26, 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA.
About DISA:
The Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA) is home for the
development of cross-industry e-business interchange standards that help
individuals and organizations improve business processes, reduce costs,
increase productivity and take advantage of new opportunities. Driving an
array of e-business initiatives, DISA provides administrative and technical
support to the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC). For additional
information about DISA, visit www.disa.org, or call 703-970-4480.
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