Doug Walker

Prior to founding Placeways, Doug was Managing Director for the CommunityViz project at the Orton Family Foundation, guiding the development and distribution of the tool from its first general release in 2001. Doug’s enthusiasm for CommunityViz and its mission stem from a lifelong passion for connecting people and technology. His career experience includes a wide variety of roles from systems engineering to senior executive leadership positions at major high technology firms. At Placeways, which he started in 2005 with a group of former CommunityViz colleagues, Doug continues to work closely with the Foundation and plays a major role in supporting CommunityViz and its vigorous research and development program. In addition to advanced business management certification, he holds a Master’s Degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor’s Degree in physics with honors and distinction from Carleton College. He is a member of the U.S. Transportation Research Board's Committee on Visualization and consults, teaches and lectures widely on visualization technology. He lives with his family near Boulder, Colorado and returns frequently to his home state of Vermont.