URL Integration Hires New Technical Architect

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- URL Integration (www.urlintegration.com),  a technology consulting firm specializing in IT integration solutions for government and business, today announced it has hired Joe Mierwa as Technical Architect.

Joe Mierwa comes to URL Integration from Patriot Data Solutions Group where he worked as Senior Information Sharing Architect. Since 2004, Mierwa has been an active Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute representative to the Global Justice XML Structure Task Force (XSTF). Mierwa has over 27 years' experience in managing, architecting, product design, staff coordination and training, and developing extensive multiple-site projects.

Mierwa has been a key contributor to the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) standard with his deep involvement in such initiatives as refactoring the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) into NIEM, the migration of GJXDM training into NIEM training, and training others in the new standard.

"Joe brings almost three decades of experience and technical expertise to the company," said Dave Usery, President and CEO of URL Integration. "As our customers continue to face increasingly challenging cross-agency integration problems, Joe's technical prowess will help them develop the most effective solution."

About URL Integration

URL Integration offers a full range of information integration services and solutions. It is focused on assisting organizations achieve even the most complex information integration projects in industries ranging from criminal justice to health care. With corporate clients, as well as state and local government agencies, URL Integration has been at the forefront of developing national standards that promote information-sharing across agencies.  The company has a long history of partnering on key projects and other ongoing efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security to develop and evolve the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) standard and its predecessor, the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM). URL Integration is a privately-owned company headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

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