June 30, 1999 Tech Arena Presentation

by George Sambataro

President
PC Weather Products

HURRTRAK
Tropical Cyclone Tracking and Analysis Software

SUMMARY

EIIP Tech Arena Online Presentation
Wednesday - June 30, 1999 - 12:00 Noon EDT

HURRTRAK:
Tropical Cyclone Tracking and Analysis Software

George Sambataro
President
PC Weather Products

The EIIP Tech Arena featured George Sambataro, founder and President of PC Weather products. Founded in 1992, PC Weather Products grew out of years of research and development to find a more comprehensive way to track and analyze tropical storm and hurricane on a personal computer. PC Weather Products specializes in Windows-based Hurricane Tracking and Analysis software designed for emergency management, insurance, disaster planning specialists and just generally anyone who has a "need to know". Mr Sambataro used a number of slides to demonstrate HURRTRAK (URLs are available in the online transcript of the presentation above.)

GEORGE SAMBATARO

President
PC Weather Products

George Sambataro is the founder and President of PC Weather Products, which markets HURRTRAK Professional, EM/Pro, and RM/Pro software for hurricane tracking and analysis. George began developing the program for his own use in the mid 80's, and it was first publically offered in 1993. He started to develop the professional version of the software in 1994 when the company was founded, and has greatly enhanced the products since that time. In 1995, HURRTRAK ONLINE service was introduced, which permits the automatic download of data via direct dial up connection, and later added Internet access.

Prior to 1994, George was imployed in private industry in software develoopment and has a background in meteorology. He has a degree in meteorology for Florida State University, and had worked at the National Hurricane and Experimental Meteorology Lab on cloud seeding experiments during the mid 70's.

George lives and works in Marietta, GA and is married with one son.

George Sambataro
wx@pcwp.com

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