GSA Technology Council

Peter Waldschmidt is an entrepreneur with a love for innovative technology. He co-founded TetraData Corporation in 1997, serving as its Chief Technology Officer. While at TetraData, he and his team designed an analytical software platform that enabled school administrators to gain insight into their strengths and weaknesses ( i.e. business intelligence for schools). During this period, he and his partners grew the company nationally becoming the market leader for educational analytics. In 2004 they raised venture capital to fund their continued growth and eventually sold the company to Follett Software Corporation in 2006.

Peter’s desire has always been to research innovative ideas and build businesses from the most promising ones. In February of 2007, Peter left TetraData to found Gnoso Inc., a technology incubator company that researches ideas and commercializes them. The first product is an innovative tool that helps software development teams maintain code quality by reporting metrics on the effectiveness of their automated tests. Several other projects are in the works.

While at TetraData, Peter served on the technical board of the Schools Interoperability Framework Association (SIFA), a standards body that produces interoperability standards for software in the education industry. During this period, Peter co-chaired the SIFA Technical Board, the Data Warehousing Workgroup and the Web Services Task Force. He also authored the SIF Web Services Reporting specification, and the SIF Extended Query specification.

Before starting TetraData, Peter designed and built software for Geerdes International that modeled global commodity trade-flows. He also created motion control software for various robotics and factory automation projects at Carolina Motion Controls and worked on the control software for the 3D modeler built by BPM Technology.

Peter holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bob Jones University with a focus on Math and Computer Science. He has also partially completed an MBA from Clemson University. Peter’s hobbies include woodworking and high performance automobiles.

Peter will speak to the GSA Technology Council at it’s October 2007 Meeting.