Chris Andrews has been a GIS evangelist and proponent of standards-based enterprise architectures for over ten years. His work has taken him from requirements gathering at the Kennedy Space Center to geospatial Web work at startup companies in San Francisco. Chris is now the ISV technical program manager for the Geospatial Business Unit at Autodesk. He is working to promote geospatial solutions throughout the Autodesk business partner community and to help define the strategy for integrating CAD and GIS-oriented business models. When writing articles for Directions Magazine, Chris' views should not be mistaken for those of his employer. Please feel free to contact Chris at chris.andrews@autodesk.com.