Dave Cruikshank is a Technical Fellow with The Boeing Company in the area of graphics and digital data interchange. He is the Chief Technical Officer of the CGM Open consortium. He is the chair of the ATA Graphics Working Group and the author of the ATA graphics specifications. He is a member of the ATA TICC Executive Committee. He is also the technical architect of the ATA intelligent graphics model and contributed to the development of the Application Structuring amendment of the CGM standard. He has several years of experience with CGM, SGML, and XML interchange.