I am the President of Standards Strategies, LLC, an Information and Communication Technology Standardization consulting firm. Previously, he was the Director of Worldwide Standards (retired) for Lexmark International, a leading developer of printing technology and products. He has 35+ years of experience in standards, engineering, software development and marketing. Since graduating from the University of Louisville with a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu), I worked on the development and marketing of office printing products for IBM (12 years) and Lexmark (21 years).

I am a graduate of the University of Louisville's Speed Scientific School with Bachelor of Science (1978)  and Master of Engineering (1979) degrees in Electrical Engineering.  I am a member of both Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu engineering honor societies.  During my later years at the University of Louisville, I became a student member of the IEEE and have continued to be an IEEE member for the last 38 years.

I am a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently a member of the IEEE Standards Associations (SA) Board of Governors and is its Treasurer.  As the SA Treasurer, I serve on the IEEE Finance Committee, a committee of the IEEE Board of Directors.  I am also Chair of the SA Awards and Recognition Committee.  I am a member of the IEEE SA Standards Board, its Patent Committee and its Procedures Committee and have previously served as the Chair of the IEEE Standards Board and as Chair of its Patent Committee.  I am the Vice Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Standards Activities Board (SAB) and previously served as Chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Microprocessor Standards Committee, which is responsible for a diverse set of standards for parallel and serial busses, programming languages, cryptography and floating point arithmetic.  I am also Chair of the IEEE’s Admission and Advancement Committee, a member of the IEEE Member Engagement and Life Cycle Committee and a member the IEEE Awards Board.  I am a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology.

Currently, I am Chairman of the Board of Directors of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization.  I was one of the founders of and a past Chair of the Printer Working Group (PWG), a program of the IEEE ISTO, which develops and encourages the development of standards for the office printing industry.

Previously I served as the Chair of the Executive Board of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) which develops American National standards.  INCITS is the US TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1.  As INCITS Chair, I served as the US Head of Delegation for the JTC 1 Plenary.  In addition, I was a member of the INCITS Procedures Board Committee, the US Delegation to JTC 1 Special Working Group on the Directives, the INCITS Study Group on Planning, the US Delegation to the JTC 1 Special Working Group on Planning, and the INCITS Finance Board Committee.

I was a member of the Board of Directors of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for six years: 2008-2013.  At ANSI, I am a member of the ANSI Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee, the ANSI-ISO Council, the ANSI International Policy Committee, the ANSI National Policy Committee and the ANSI Company Member’s Forum.  I am also a member of the Information Technology Industry Council’s (ITI) Standardization Policy and Cybersecurity committees. 

Leadership Summary

• IEEE
  • Leadership
    • Senior Member of the IEEE
    • Member of SA Board of Governors 2001, 2003 -
    • Standards Association Treasurer 2007 -
    • Member of IEEE Finance Committee (FinCom) 2007 -
    • Chair of the IEEE SA Awards and Recognition Committee: 2012 -
    • Member of the IEEE Awards Board: 2012 -
    • Chair of the IEEE Standards Association (SA) Standards Board 2003 - 2004
    • Past Chair of the IEEE Standards Association (SA) Standards Board 2005 - 2007
    • Chair of the IEEE SA Standards Board Patent Committee 2002, 2005-2006, 2008
    • Member of the SA Standards Board: 2002-2008, 2010-2011, 2014 -
    • Vice Chair of the Computer Society's Standards Activity Board 2014 -
    • Member of the Computer Society's Standards Activity Board 1998 - 2007
    • Vitality Chair of the Computer Society's Standards Activity Board 2000
    • Vice Chair of the Communication's Society's Standards Development Board: 2012 - 2013
    • Member of the Computer Society's Information Assurance Standards Committee 2004 -
    • IEEE SA Liaison to the Technical Activities Board (TAB) 2005 - 2006
    • IEEE SA Liaison to IEEE-USA: 2010 - 2013
    • IEEE SA Member of the New Initiatives Committee (NIC) 2005 - 2006
    • Chair of the Computer Society's Microprocessor Standards Committee 1999-2001
    • Chair of the IEEE Admission and Advancement Committee: 2014 -
    • Vice Chair of the IEEE Admission and Advancement Committee: 2001 - 2013
    • Member of the IEEE Investment Committee: 2012-2013
  • Awards
    • Standards Board Distinguished Service Award: 2006
    • Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award: 2003, 2004
    • Computer Society 2004 Golden Core Member
       
• INCITS (InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards)
  • Chair of the Executive Board 2009 - 2012
  • Vice Chair of the Executive Board 2006 - 2008
  • Primary or Alternate Member of the Executive Board 2005 -
   
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
  • Board of Directors: 2008 - 2013
  • International Policy Committee
  • National Policy Committee
  • Intellectual Property Rights Committee
• ANSI-ISO Council
   
• IEEE-ISTO
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors: 2011 -
  • Member of the Board of Directors: 2001 -
    • Compensation Committee: 2007 - 2011
       
• Printer Working Group
  • Chairman 1996-2001
  • Chair of the XHTML-Print Working Group 2000 -
     
• ITI
  • Member of the Standardization Policy Committee 2005 -

• W3C
  • Lexmark's Advisory Committee Representative 1996 -  2007
     
• Trusted Computing Group
• ECMA
• OASIS
• Universal Plug and Play Forum
• Bluetooth SIG

Standards and other Publications

I am the author or one of several authors of the following standards and articles:

• IEEE P2600: Hardcopy Device and System Security
  • IEEE P2600.1, .2, .3, .4 Hardcopy Device Protection Profiles
• RFC1759: Printer MIB
• RFC2567: Design Goals for an Internet Printing Protocol
• "Requirements and design goals for an Internet printing protocol," ACM StandardView, Volume 6, number 4, pp 172-179
• IEEE Std 1284-2000: High Speed Bidirectional Parallel Port (Chair and Editor)
• IEEE Std 1284.1-1997 (Reaffirmed 2003): Transport Independent Printer System Interface (Chair)
• PWG Candidate Standard 5102.1 "XHTML-Print" (see XHTML-Print, a W3C Candidate Standard)
• PWG Candidate Standard 5102.2 "CSS Print Profile" (see CSS Print Profile, a W3C Candidate Standard)
• Devices Profile for Web Services

I am/was a significant technical contributor to the following standards:

• RFC2707: Job Monitoring MIB
• RFC2910: Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport
• RFC2911: Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics
• IEEE Std 1284.3-2000: Interface Protocol Extensions to IEEE Std 1284-Compliant Peripherals and Host Adapters
• IEEE Std 1284.4-2000: Data Delivery and Logical Channels for IEEE Std 1284 Interfaces
• Bluetooth Basic Printing Profile
• Bluetooth Hardcopy Cable Replacement Profile
• UPNP Printer Device/Service

In addition, I participated in/am participating in the development of the following standards and related projects:

• PWG IPP Fax
• PWG Print Services
• W3C CSS
• W3C Web Services Description Language
• W3C Patent Policy
• IPP Notifications
• IEEE Std 1394.3-2003: Peer to Peer Data Transport

I have authored or co-authored several computer industry trade magazine articles and given conference programs on:

• The IEEE 1284 Parallel Port Standard,
• The IEEE P2600 Hardcopy Devices and System Security Standard (currently under development),
• Network printing, and
• Network printing protocols.

My hobbies include the history of the computer industry, politics and digital photography.

This page last updated July 19, 2005

I not only develop standards, I believe in using them!
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