Leadership

ARTHUR BRIAN SMITH
Director-Chair

Art Smith is a director of the VISTA Expertise Network and serves as the chair of the board of directors. Mr. Smith became a director with the Network's incorporation on 21 May 2007. He was elected chair at the first meeting of the board on 17 August 2007.

Mr. Smith received an M.S. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Delaware in 1985, and has been employed in the information-technology field ever since. For eighteen years, he served as the principal programmer/analyst for the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia before becoming a full-time freelance photographer in 2009.

Mr. Smith has been active in the MUMPS community during that tenure, serving on the board of directors for the M Technology Association, and as a member representative, subcommittee chair, and chairman of the MUMPS Development Committee. He has taught MUMPS classes to VA employees under contract with ESI, and has presented many talks and written numerous articles in support of MUMPS. Mr. Smith has been active in other standards activities through his membership on the Standards Subcommittee of the Informatics Committee of the Veterinary Medical Association and membership in the Context Modeling Working Group of SNOMED.

In addition to these technical interests, Art enjoys playing tuba in a semi-professional ensemble, the ShowMe Brass Band.

GERALD EUGENE GOODNOUGH
Director-Treasurer

EILEEN ERIN GORMLY
Director-Secretary

Eileen Gormly is a director of the VISTA Expertise Network and serves as the secretary of the board of directors. Miss Gormly became a director with the Network's incorporation on 21 May 2007. She was elected secretary at the first meeting of the board on 17 August 2007.

Miss Gormly is currently an Information Security Officer at VA Puget Sound in Seattle Washington. She has worked for the Department of Veteran Affairs for just under 20 years and spent four and a half years in the U.S. Coast Guard. As a U.S. Veteran who uses the VA Healthcare System, Miss Gormly has been on both sides of VISTA/CPRS and is very passionate about the utility and elegance of this medical system.

In her career at the VA, Miss Gormly has been a Medicine Residency Coordinator, a VISTA/CPRS Trainer, a Clinical Applications Coordinator, Help Desk Support, a basic M programmer for VISTA, one of the Assistant VISTA Managers, and then transitioned, thru a brief detour at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, into Information Security at the Seattle VA.

In her not so copious spare time, Miss Gormly volunteers at the local library where she is a library guild member. She also sits on the Board of the Directors of the Distributed Proofreaders Foundation, where she is also a volunteer. Oh, and she reads a lot, plays D&D and Rock Band, and gardens a little.

FREDERICK DOUGLAS SALING MARSHALL
Executive Director

Rick Marshall is the executive director of the VISTA Expertise Network. Mr. Marshall founded the Network on 15 December 2006 and incorporated it on 21 May 2007. He was elected executive director at the first meeting of the board on 19 August 2007.

Mr. Marshall is a tier-five, master-hardhat VISTA developer who has implemented, programmed, written about, taught about, and strategized about VISTA for twenty-five years. He served as a VISTA computer specialist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for nineteen years, including twelve years working on the Task Manager and File Manager software. He is the lead instructor in the Network's Paideia program to train up a new generation of VISTA experts.

Mr. Marshall is active in the MUMPS community, having served on the board of directors of the M Technology Association for four years, and taught at MUG and MTA conferences for many more. He also served on the MUMPS Development Committee as a member representative, working-group chair, committee vice-chair, and editor of the MUMPS standard. Mr. Marshall cofounded WorldVistA, where he variously served as director, president, and chief technical officer.

In addition to these interests, Rick enjoys hiking throughout the Pacific Northwest, playing Dungeons & Dragons and Rock Band, and studying philosophy and morality.