Arthur Brian Smith

Art Smith is a founding 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, and was elected chair at the first meeting of the board. He became a director emertius in 2018, after he felt he had to scale back his board duties; rather than resign, the board asked him to become a non-voting member who only had to chair board meetings, and he happily accepted.

He received an MS 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. In 2012, he returned to the University of Missouri, and now works in the Division of Information Technology.

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 M classes to VA employees under contract with ESI, and has presented many talks and written numerous articles in support of M. 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.