O. Mark Jerde

Mr. Jerde is the IDTP Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Jerde has over has over twenty (20) years of Information Technology experience. He first became involved in biometrics in 1991 as a U.S. Army Captain assigned to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) where he worked on the Software AFIS Screening System (SASS) and IDENT projects. In private industry he has worked for Identicator and Identix. Mr. Jerde managed a team of programmers and data entry personnel in the creation of the Army’s Training Management Database, a multi-user UNIX system designed to maximize training resources through optimum scheduling. At the INS, Mr. Jerde was the hand’s-on project manager of SASS, the world’s first 100% Commercial, Off-The-Shelf client / server biometric system. As a part of the INS SASS, Mr. Jerde designed remote software distribution systems, which allowed remote control of San Diego IT resources. At Identicator, Mr. Jerde wrote the Biometric Enrollment System (BES), which was used on several projects, including the Philippines Fingerprint Database. Mr. Jerde created software to instruct software developers in the proper development of biometric image capture and processing routines. He has participated in numerous government and industry biometric standards activities, including the ANSI/NIST fingerprint interchange standard, BioAPI, and the NIST Common Biometric Exchange File Framework.