Melissa Liebert is a Program Manager for Comtech Telecommunication Corp. Before moving to the private sector, Melissa was chair of the Washington State NG 9-1-1 GIS Subcommittee and was involved in developing NENA documents including NG GIS Data Stewardship, Standards for the Provisioning and Maintenance of GIS Data to ECRF and LVFs, and the GIS Data Model Template. She has presented at WAURISA and URISA GIS-Pro conferences on topics surrounding Next Generation 9-1-1 and best practices for data development and maintenance. Melissa serves on URISA’s NG 9-1-1 Taskforce and still sits on several NENA working groups. At Comtech, she is one of the top advisors for NG 9-1-1 GIS state deployments and works with state and local governments to ensure smooth transitions into NG 9-1-1.