Cathy Tilton, vice president of standards and technology at Daon, has been named as a recipient of the 2008 Leadership and Service Awards given by the American National Standards Institute. Tilton will receive the Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal, which recognizes outstanding efforts to foster cooperation among the bodies involved in global IT standardization.
She is active in the development of national and international biometric standards, currently serving as the U.S. head of delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 subcommittee on biometrics. Tilton also chairs the BioAPI Consortium, is the international representative for INCITS M1 technical committee on biometrics, and chairs the M1 Ad Hoc Group on Biometrics in e-Authentication. She is the technical editor of the BioAPI within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 WG2 as well as a new project there called BioAPI Lite. She currently chairs the BIAS Integration technical committee at OASIS.
Tilton has more than 25 years of engineering and management experience, including over 14 years in the biometrics industry. She has lead or been involved in the design, development and deployment of numerous biometric systems in the commercial and government domains. These include the US-VISIT program, the Transportation Worker Identification Credential, and in a previous life, IAFIS. She is an active participant in the Registered Traveler Interoperability Consortium (RTIC) and contributed to the interoperability specifications for this program. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/thirdfactor-4.gif)
