Background
Zimmerman, Edward Kline was born on October 13, 1936 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States.
Zimmerman, Edward Kline was born on October 13, 1936 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States.
Student in radio, television and motion pictures, University North Carolina, 1958.
Research assistant, Research Computation Center, U. North Carolina, 1959;
systems programmer, Sperry Univac, beginning 1960;
later staff consultant, Sperry Univac (Sperry International), until 1965;
general manager, Computer Services Ltd. (became subsidiary University Computing Company), Birmingham, England, beginning 1965;
later became manager information systems for educational subsidiary of, University Computing Company, in the United States
consultant information processing, New York City, 1969;
consultant information processing, Washington, 1970;
from customer systems manager to senior technical consultant, National Teleprocessing Service, Information Network division Computer Science Corporation, 1970-1973;
director, Master Calendar Services for American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1973-1977;
special assistant to dir, Office Administration, Executive Office of President, 1977-1979;
deputy assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, deputy administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department Commerce, Washington, 1979-1980;
special assistant to director, Office Planning and Evaluation, White House, 1981;
executive director, National Computer Graphics Association, 1981-1982;
management consultant, Washington, 1982-1990. Chairman Inter-Agency Committee on Automatic Data Processing, 1980-1981.
Executive director advising committee on information network structure and function for Executive Officeof President, 1979. Co-chairman Domestic Information Display System Steering Committee, 1978-1981. Executive secretary Advisory Group on White House Information Systems, 1977.
Member steering committee National Computer Conference, 1976. Member public-private sectortask force National Commision on Library and Information Science, 1979-1981.
Board of directors Holmes Run Acres Civic Association, 1974-1977, president, 1976. Served with United States Army, 1960-1962. Member Association for Computing Machinery, National Computer Graphics Association, World Computer Graphics Association (director) 1981).
Married Carol DeSilvio. Children: Joanne Burgess, Edward William, Carson Freas.