Editorial Staff
Mailing address for the editorial staff:
North Coast Media
ATTN: GPS World
1360 East 9th Street
10th Floor
Cleveland, OH 44114
Kevin Stoltman, President and CEO
Matteo Luccio
Editor-in-Chief
mluccio@northcoastmedia.net
541-543-0525
Luccio possesses more than 20 years of experience as a writer and editor for GNSS and geospatial technology magazines. He began his career in the industry in 2000, serving as managing editor of GPS World and Galileo’s World, then as editor of Earth Observation Magazine and GIS Monitor. His technical articles have been published in more than 20 professional magazines, including Professional Surveyor Magazine, Apogeo Spatial and xyHt. Luccio holds a master’s degree in political science from MIT.
Brian Richesson
Senior Editor in Chief
brichesson@northcoastmedia.net
216-706-3748
Brian Richesson is the Senior Editor in Chief of GPS World magazine. He also serves as editor in chief for LP Gas magazine. Prior to his business media career, Richesson spent about 10 years in the newspaper industry, working as a reporter, copy editor and page designer for several daily publications in Northeast Ohio. He graduated in 1997 with a journalism degree from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He is a native of Northeast Ohio.
Diane Sofranec
Staff Editor
dsofranec@northcoastmedia.net
216-706-3793
Diane Sofranec is an award-winning journalist whose professional writing and editing career spans more than 30 years. She has worked in print publishing and digital media, writing and editing cover stories, feature articles and columns; creating and editing electronic newsletters, blog posts and social media content; and covering industry events.
Jesse Khalil
Associate Editor
jkhalil@northcoastmedia.net
216-363-7930
Jesse started working at North Coast Media full-time in January 2023, after spending the summer and fall of 2022 as NCM’s editorial/digital media intern. Jesse served as the Digital Media Specialist for GPS World before becoming the current Associate Editor. She is a graduate of Kent State University where she earned a bachelor’s in journalism.
Joey Ciccolini
Senior Digital Media Specialist
jciccolini@northcoastmedia.net
216-363-7925
Joseph Ciccolini received his Bachelor’s in Journalism from Kent State University. He spent his time there creating news reports across various forms of media such as video, audio and print. Prior to joining NCM, he was an intern for 89.7 WKSU producing and voicing multiple broadcast stories.
Contributing Editors
Richard Langley
Innovation column editor
lang@unb.ca | 506-453-4698 | fax: 506-453-4943
Professor Langley has worked extensively with the Global Positioning System. He has been active in the development of GPS error models since the early 1980s and is a co-author of the venerable “Guide to GPS Positioning” and a columnist and contributing editor of GPS World magazine. His research team is currently working on a number of GPS-related projects, including the study of atmospheric effects on wide-area augmentation systems, the adaptation of techniques for spaceborne GPS, and the development of GPS-based systems for machine control and deformation monitoring. Professor Langley is a collaborator in UNB’s Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network project and is the principal investigator for the GPS instrument on the Canadian CASSIOPE research satellite now in orbit.
Tony Murfin
Professional OEM (original equipment manufacturer) + UAV e-newsletter
tmurfin@gpsworld.com
Tony Murfin is managing consultant for GNSS Aerospace LLC, Florida. Murfin provides business development consulting services to companies involved in GNSS products and markets, and writes for GPS World as the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) contributing editor. Previously, Murfin worked for NovAtel Inc. in Calgary, Canada, as vice president of Business Development; for CMC Electronics in Montreal, Canada, as business development manager, product manager, software manger and software engineer; for CAE in Montreal as simulation software engineer; and for BAe in Warton, U.K., as senior avionics engineer.
Murfin has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the U.K., and is a U.K. Chartered Engineer (CEng MIET).
David B. Zilkoski
Survey Scene e-newsletter
dzilkoski@gpsworld.com
David B. Zilkoski has worked in the fields of geodesy and surveying for more than 40 years. He was employed by National Geodetic Survey (NGS) from 1974 to 2009. He served as NGS director from October 2005 to January 2009. Now retired from government service, as a consultant he provides technical guidance on GNSS surveys; computes crustal movement rates using GPS and leveling data; and leads training sessions on guidelines for estimating GPS-derived heights, procedures for performing leveling network adjustments, the use of ArcGIS for analyses of adjustment data and results, and the proper procedures to follow when estimating crustal movement rates using geodetic leveling data.
GPS World Editorial Advisory Board
Miguel Amor | Hexagon Positioning Intelligence
Thibault Bonnevie | SBG Systems
Alison Brown | NAVSYS Corporation
Ismael Colomina | GeoNumerics
Clem Driscoll | C.J. Driscoll & Associates
Ellen Hall | Imminent Federal
Jules McNeff | Overlook Systems Technologies, Inc.
Terry Moore | University of Nottingham
Bradford W. Parkinson | Stanford Center for Position, Navigation and Time
Jean-Marie Sleewaegen | Septentrio
Michael Swiek | GPS Alliance
Julian Thomas | Racelogic Ltd.
Greg Turetzky | Consultant
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