BIOGRAPHIES
Gordon E. Bellen
Mr. Bellen is Vice President of Federal Programs at NSF International. In his current position he is responsible for government relations at the federal level and management of several Government sponsored environmental technology projects.
Mr. Bellen is a lifetime honorary member of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Division of Environmental Chemistry. He Chaired the Division for two years (94-95) and has received its Distinguished Service Award. He also was chosen to Chair the Society's Committee on Environmental Improvement (91-93). Mr. Bellen was also Chair of the Environmental Labeling Delegation for the ISO 14000 series of standards.
Mr. Bellen has a B.S. Chemistry and M.S. Water Resources Science from the University of Michigan. He is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Mr. Bellen is a retired Army officer with 23 years of service in Army aviation including active duty and the National Guard.
Roberta E. Breden
Roberta Breden is Director, Technical Regulatory Affairs, for the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). She is responsible for the Fiber Optics and User Premises Equipment Divisions, and coordinates the activities of these Divisions and their Sections in matters of regulatory and technical issues of concern to Association members. In addition, she is the Association's lead for conformity assessment issues.
Ms. Breden also represents the Association in many international regulatory, standards, and consumer issues. She participates on the American National Standards Institute Executive Standards Council, Consumer Interest Council, and the Board Committee on Conformity Assessment. At the end of 2000, she was appointed as a member of the United States National Committee/International Electrotechnical Commission (USNC/IEC) Council after its internal reorganization that year. Ms. Breden is also a member of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Sector Board 4 and participates the IEC World Wide System for Certification and Testing of Electrical Equipment (IECEE). She has participated as a member of the International Organization for Standardization Consumer Policy Committee (ISO COPOLCO) Working Group on a joint agreement between ISO and IEC on consumer participation in voluntary industry standards development.
On the constantly changing regulatory front, Ms. Breden was one of the telecommunications industry representatives working with the FCC on the streamlining and eventual privatization of the Part 68 consumer premises equipment (CPE) registration process and the regulatory transition of terminal attachment in the United States. She now represents TIA as one of the sponsors of the recently formed Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments (ACTA), the organization created to adopt technical criteria and to act as the clearing-house, publishing technical criteria for terminal equipment developed by ANSI-accredited standards development organizations; and to establish and maintain a registration database of equipment approved as compliant with the technical criteria.
Ms. Breden reports directly to Grant Seiffert, TIA's Vice President, External Affairs and Global Policy. Before joining TIA in 1994, Ms. Breden was a Systems Engineer and Task Leader with Titan Systems for tasks in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She was actively involved in analyzing a variety of wireless telecommunications products and systems. From 1972 to 1992, Ms. Breden held various positions, both technical and administrative, with the United States Marine Corps. She retired in 1992 as a Captain, with prior enlisted experience.
Ms. Breden holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a Master of Science in Systems Management from the University of Southern California.
Maureen Breitenberg
Ms. Breitenberg is a senior economist with NIST and holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.B.A. in operations research from the University of Maryland. Her prior employment experience includes positions with the General Accounting Office and the Food and Drug Administration and the Indian Health Service within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
She is currently responsible for providing technical advice and assistance on standards, conformity assessment and other trade-related matters to other government agencies, foreign government bodies, and private industry. She is the author of a number reports on subjects related to standardization and conformity assessment. Her publications include two widely distributed reports on the ISO 9000 Standards Series; primers on U.S. standardization, certification, conformity assessment, and laboratory accreditation activities; and directories of European regional and international/regional standards related organizations, U.S. private sector and government certification programs, and federal government laboratory accreditation/ designation programs.
Ms. Breitenberg is a winner of the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal and Vice President Gore's National Performance Review award.
John H. Bridges III
John H. Bridges III is an Environmental Compliance Coordinator for the U.S. Postal Service and has responsibility for furthering postal manager's efforts to achieve environmental excellence as an integral part of overall business excellence. In addition, he has recently assumed responsibility for corporate positioning of USPS Environmental Management System efforts. He joined the Postal Service in 1996, after retiring from the U.S Marine Corps. Over the past 25 years, he has held professional and leadership positions in environmental, health and safety (EHS) planning, operational integration and sustainable development. John served for three years on the President's Council on Sustainable Development, Environmental Management Task Force, as well as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) E-50 Committee on Environmental Assessments. Most recently, Mr. Bridges was appointed to the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Z490 Committee developing Standard Guidelines for Safety, Health, and Environmental Training.
Mr. Bridges serves on the Chairman's Advisory Group for the U.S. Technical Advisory Group of ISO 14000, as well as a technical advisor on ISO 14001 for Environmental Management Systems. He holds a BS in Occupational Safety, is a graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the Corporate Environmental Leadership Program from Yale University. In 1999, he received the Environmental Manager of the Year Award, by the National Association for Environmental Management and the Outstanding Service Award - 2000 from the National Registry of Environmental Professionals. Most recently, his EMS facilitation was recognized as one of the 2001 White House Closing the Circle Awards winners.
Karen H. Brown
Karen H. Brown is the National Institute of Standards and Technology's acting director and deputy director. As a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Administration, NIST's mission is to strengthen the U.S. economy and improve the quality of life by working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards through a portfolio of four major programs: the NIST Laboratories, the Baldrige National Quality Program, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and the Advanced Technology Program. Brown oversees an $800M annual operating budget and 3,300 on-site staff complemented by 2,000 manufacturing and business specialists serving smaller manufacturers around the country. Brown came to NIST as deputy director in January 1999. Previously she was a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Microelectronics in Hopewell Junction, N.Y. Brown also served (on assignment from IBM) as director of lithography for SEMATECH from 1994-1998. Brown's 22-year career at IBM concentrated on solving problems in semiconductor lithography and microelectronics. She has a proven track record in management, having successfully met the challenges of moving ideas from the laboratory into manufacturing. Brown also has a keen awareness of the impact of national and international standards on U.S. industry and the economy, having held a variety of standards leadership positions in Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International and helping to bring a semiconductor fabrication line on-board in France.
A native of Schenectady, N.Y., Brown holds a B.A. in chemistry and in history, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Rochester.
Belinda L. Collins
Belinda L. Collins is the Acting Deputy Director of the NIST Technology Services, which provides U.S. industry, government, and the public with measurements, standards, and knowledge resources and services from NIST that promote innovation, increase competitiveness, and facilitate trade. It also provides policy support for standards and conformity assessment activities for Federal agencies. Dr. Collins chairs the federal Interagency Committee on Standards Policy (ICSP), serves on the ANSI Board of Directors, representing the NIST Director, and is the immediate past chair of the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) and a past chair of the National Cooperation for Laboratory Accreditation (NACLA).
Dr. Collins received her M.A. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology (visual psychophysics) from the University of Virginia, and her B.A. in experimental psychology from Mary Washington College. While at NIST, she has served in several different positions, including research psychologist, Leader of the Lighting Group, Program Analyst in the Office of the NIST Director, Director, Office of Standards Services, and now Acting Deputy Director, Technology Services. Dr. Collins has authored numerous technical publications and has been active in both domestic and international standardization, chairing several different technical committees.
Dr. Collins is a Fellow of the Illumination Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) and served as its Vice President for Education (1995-1997). Dr. Collins received the NIST Bronze Medal in 1984, a Meritorious Service Award from the American National Standards Institute, along with a Public Service Award from ACIL in 1997, the NACLA Lifetime Achievement award and the NIST Edward Bennett Rosa Award in 2000, and the Department of Commerce Silver Medal in 2001.
Joseph R. Dunbeck
Joseph R. Dunbeck is the first Chief Executive Officer of the Registrar Accreditation Board (RAB) in Milwaukee, WI. As CEO, Dunbeck directs the not-for-profit organization's ISO 9000 quality management systems and ISO 14000 environmental management systems programs for auditors, course providers, and registrars.
RAB, through a joint agreement with ANSI, manages the National Accreditation Program for accrediting registrars and course providers for Quality Management Systems (QMS) and Environmental Management Systems (EMS). RAB directly operates the QMS and EMS auditor certification program.
Before joining RAB in 1995, Dunbeck served as president of EKCO Housewares, Inc., Ingrid Housewares, Inc., and Bruning Paint Company. He began his career in sales and marketing positions for Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, Maremont Corporation, and Cragar Industries.
Dunbeck holds a B. A. degree in economics from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI and an M.B.A. in marketing from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
Si Farvardin
Mr. Farvardin is Program Manager for the National Evaluation Service, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Louisville, and an Engineering Intern Certification (EIT). He has over 16 years of experience in building codes and standards, building inspections, design review, and materials and methods in building construction. His current technical work involves managing National Evaluation Service review and approval of emerging building technologies/products for industry manufactures. He manages the multi-year contract with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for their Technical Suitability of Products Program (TSPP) as well. In the past, he served as local building official in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, as well as Project Engineer for the National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards.
Gordon Gillerman
Mr. Gillerman works with government agencies and trade associations on domestic and global safety, conformity assessment and trade issues in Underwriters Laboratories' Washington, DC Office.
His experience includes: interfaces with elected officials, government agencies such as USTR, DOC, OSHA, FDA, FCC and CPSC, as well as trade associations concerning issues related to health, safety, protection of property, conformity assessment and trade.
Mr. Gillerman's technical expertise includes medical equipment, information technology equipment and power supplies. He has certified products to US, Canadian, European and other international standards and is an FDA 510(k) third party reviewer. He is a member of the IEC 62A, WG 18 for fire and thermal hazards in electromedical equipment and a central reviewer for IEC 60601 CB Scheme reports. He is also an expert on EU Directives for Medical Devices, Safety of Low Voltage Equipment, Machinery, and EMC.
He has conducted presentations on safety, conformity assessment and trade issues for domestic and foreign government and industry groups and has developed and conducted two-day open and in-house seminars on harmonized safety standards for electromedical equipment, IEC 60601 and information technology including telecommunications equipment. These seminars continue to be the primary source of training for regulatory compliance in both industries and their regulators.
He holds a BSEET from Bradley University in Illinois.
Georgia Harris
Georgia Harris is a Physical Scientist with the NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM). As manager of the OWM Laboratory Metrology Program, Georgia is responsible for the NIST recognition of the State weights and measures laboratories and the ongoing training and evaluation of metrologists in 55 laboratories. She coordinates numerous activities, such as round robins, regional measurement assurance groups, and the development and updating of technical handbooks with cooperative and voluntary efforts of State and industry metrologists through NIST working groups.
She has been active in NCSL functions since 1985 when she first attended a Twin Cities section meeting (St. Paul, MN). She has given presentations at both local and national meetings. She served as the Section Coordinator for the Twin Cities Section of NCSL in 1988 and 1989. Since 1991, she has functioned as liaison to the NCSL Board of Directors for the National Conference on Weights and Measures. She was a VP on the NCSL Board of Directors for the Eastern Division and the Measurement Science and Technology from 1994 through 1997. In 2001, she returned to the Board of Directors for NCSLI as the VP for Publications. She has spoken at numerous NCSL sectional and national meetings.
Joseph Hazeltine
Joseph Hazeltine, PE is a Senior Division Director at Wyle Laboratories Huntsville, Alabama test facility. He has been with Wyle Laboratories for over 20 years after serving in the US Navy's Nuclear Submarine Force. Mr. Hazeltine has extensive testing experience and is in charge of all conformity assessment activities in the laboratory. Mr. Hazeltine graduated from Marquette University with a BSEE degree and Florida Institute of Technology with a MBA degree. He is a registered professional engineer and a member of many of many professional and engineering organizations.
Donald N. Heirman
Donald Heirman is President of Don HEIRMAN Consultants, a training and educational EMC consultation corporation. Previously he was with Bell Laboratories for over 30 years in many EMC roles including Manager of Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs) Global Product Compliance Laboratory where he was in charge of the Corporation's major EMC and regulatory test facility. He chairs, or is a principal contributor to, national and international EMC standards organizations including ANSI ASC C63 and the International Special Committee on Radio Interference (CISPR) that develop new emission and immunity instrumentation specifications and measurement techniques. Mr. Heirman is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of its EMC Society Board of Directors (and its Vice President for Standards), chairs the Society's Electromagnetic Compatibility Measurement Committee, and has authored and presented internationally numerous papers, tutorials, and seminars/workshops on EMC subjects. He is also the chair of the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board and is President of the National Cooperation for Laboratory Accreditation (NACLA). He chairs the American National Standards Institute Accredited Standards Committee C63, Subcommittee One on EMC Techniques and Developments, which prepares guidelines or standards for EMC measurements, test site qualifications, antenna calibrations, automated measurements, and emission and immunity limit setting. Mr. Heirman is a technical expert for CISPR Subcommittees A (Radio Interference Measurements and Statistical Techniques) and I (Information Technology, Multimedia, and Receiver Equipment). He is also the Subcommittee A chairman and chairman of its Working Group 1 responsible for CISPR 16 Part 1 on EMC measurement instrumentation. He is also group manager for electromagnetics for the U.S. National Committee Executive Committee (now called the Technical Management Committee) for the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) responsible for facilitating the CISPR and TC77 (immunity) US participation and Chair of its Coordinating Committee on EMC. Mr. Heirman is also an adjunct professor/senior research scientist at the University of Oklahoma and is the Associate Director for Wireless EMC at the University's Center for the Study of Wireless EMC. He is a retired Commander in the US Navy Reserves and he is a listed in multiple Who's Who publications.
Scott Holliday
Scott has worked for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters in Washington, DC since November 1991. He is currently the Director of the ISO 9001 Program Office. Over the past 3 years Scott led the day-to-day implementation of a Quality Management System (QMS) that conforms to the ISO 9001 quality standard at NASA Headquarters, to include third party certification of Headquarters compliance. Headquarters was initially certified to the ISO 9001 standard for Strategic Enterprise Management in May, 1999. The certification was then expanded to all Headquarters offices in May, 2000. For his efforts Scott was awarded the Aero-Space Technology Enterprise Award and NASA Headquarters Exceptional Performance Award. In October, 2000, Scott's role was expanded to provide NASA-wide functional leadership for ISO 9001-based QMS's.
In his previous position with NASA Headquarters, Scott worked as a senior engineer responsible for leading NASA-wide facilities maintenance and management efforts. Major functions included leading NASA-wide benchmarking efforts, leading the NASA-wide conversion to Reliability Centered Maintenance; leading the effort to convert cost reimbursement, level of effort facilities maintenance contracts to fixed price performance based contracts; and providing strategic insight as a member of NASA's Strategic Management Working Group, responsible for coordinating all NASA-wide strategic management efforts. For his efforts, Scott received NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal in June, 1998, the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance's NASA-wide QASAR Award in October, 1997, and two NASA Group Achievement Awards for the NASA Strategic Management Handbook and National Facilities Study in 1997 and 1994 respectively. Scott also accepted one of the Association for Facilities Engineering's highest awards for international Facilities Management Excellence (FAME) in October 1997 for his efforts as leader of the NASA-wide Corporate Maintenance Leadership Team.
Scott began his career in 1983 with the Navy in Philadelphia providing consulting services related to Public Works management to Navy bases in a 24 state area. Duties also included teaching various adult education classes. From 1989 until joining NASA in 1991 Scott worked for Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Headquarters in Alexandria, VA where he was the Navy-wide Program Manager for Facility Support Contracts and facilities operations and maintenance outsourcing. Duties also included teaching advanced contract management. He was promoted to the Industrial Engineering Branch Head at NAVFAC Headquarters in May 1990 where he was responsible for Navy-wide facilities maintenance and management policy and programs.
Scott received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983. He currently resides in Lorton, Virginia with his wife Elizabeth and 2 daughters, Michaela and Caitlin.
William S. Hurst
William (Bill) Hurst is an Electrical Engineer for the Policy and Rules Division, Office of Engineering and Technology of the Federal Communications Commission, where he represents the FCC on national and international committees. He is responsible for the FCC's implementation of Mutual Recognition Agreements (MRAs) and coordinates with other government agencies and groups concerned with equipment authorization policy and rules.
Mr. Hurst spent 25 years in the private sector where he managed a telecommunications, EMC and product safety testing laboratory and certification body. He has authored and presented numerous papers and has actively participated in many industry organizations with regards to telecommunications, laboratory accreditation, EMC standards and equipment authorization.
Mr. Hurst has been involved in Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) negotiations between the United States Government and the European Union, Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Inter-American Commission for Telecommunications (CITEL).
Tim Jeffries
Mr. Tim Jeffries is the Director of the Administrative Council of Terminal Attachments, or ACTA, the newly formed industry council for FCC Part 68 certification, and Technology Development for the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solution (ATIS).
As the director of ACTA, Tim's primary responsibility is to carry out the directives of the Council, including the management of its activities and oversight of all Secretariat duties. Tim also provides ongoing support, guidance, and advice to the Council in the development, implementation, and achievement of its strategic objectives.
Tim jointed ATIS' management staff after serving the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) as its Director of Certification Programs. At CTIA, Tim was responsible for all aspects of the wireless industry's product certification program; including its redesign to streamline the industry's product testing and approval processes.
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) is a member company organization that is the leader for standards and operating procedures for the telecommunications industry. More than 1,500 experts from over 400 telecommunications companies participate in ATIS' 19 committees, forums, and Incubator Solutions programs.
Richard F. Kayser
Dr. Kayser received a Sc.B. in physical chemistry from Brown University in June 1973 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Rice University in May 1976. He moved to the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) in May 1976 as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and joined the Thermophysics Division as a permanent staff member one year later.
Over the next ten years, Dr. Kayser performed research on a wide variety of theoretical and experimental topics, ranging from phase transitions to wetting phenomena. During that time, he published approximately 40 papers in the peer-reviewed archival literature.
Dr. Kayser became Chief of the Thermophysics Division in May 1989 and Chief of the Physical and Chemical Properties Division in May 1996. In these positions, he was responsible for NIST's programs on the thermophysical and thermochemical properties of gases, liquids, and solids; the rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions in the gas and liquid phases; process separations and low?temperature refrigeration, heat transfer, and flow; and pressure, vacuum, and low-flow-rate measurements and standards, including the U.S. national standards in those areas.
Dr. Kayser assumed the position of Director of Technology Services in August 1999. Among its activities, Technology Services supports the NIST Measurement and Standards Laboratories in the provision of calibrations, Standard Reference Materials, and Standard Reference Data; promotes accuracy and uniformity throughout the States in weights and measures; conducts the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program; and facilitates trade by promoting the efficient development and use of U.S. standards and technology and by reducing technical barriers to trade.
Rebecca B. MacPherson
A graduate of Tulane University School of Law, Ms. MacPherson has worked at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as a rulemaking attorney for five years. She had previously worked as a litigation attorney for the U.S. Maritime Administration. During her tenure at NHTSA, Ms. MacPherson has worked on regulations addressing a variety of safety-related issues. These projects include a new, comprehensive regulation on advanced air bags, regulations creating exemptions from the statutory prohibition against making mandated motor vehicle safety equipment inoperative, and certification of vehicles manufactured in two or more stages. Ms. MacPherson has also worked in the international sphere, assisting in the development of a U.N. agreement on the development of global technical regulations and representing NHTSA before governmental and private entities from Korea, Japan, China, and Mexico.
Kevin L. McIntyre
Mr. McIntyre is a Senior Standards Specialist in NIST's Office of Standards Services. He is responsible for furthering NIST's progress in implementing Public Law 104-113, the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995. Mr. McIntyre also serves as Secretary to the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy.
Prior to joining NIST in 1993, Mr. McIntyre worked in private industry in several capacities including manufacturing engineering, engineering management and new business development. While at NIST, Mr. McIntyre worked in the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program, serving as a Regional Account Manager and Group Leader before joining the Office of Standards Services in June, 2000. Mr. McIntyre holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland and an M..B.A. from George Washington University. In 1996, Mr. McIntyre was awarded the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award for Superior Federal Service.
Mary C. McKiel
Dr. McKiel began her Federal career in 1976 as an analytical chemist at the National Archives and Records Service (now an independent Administration). There, she developed chemical methods for restoring and preserving textual and non-textual materials. As a member of the US Group to ISO Technical Committee (6) on Paper, she participated in developing international standards for archival quality paper.
From 1982 to 1993, Mary served in several capacities at the Federal Supply Service of the General Services Administration: Chief of Engineering and Standards Policy, Director of Quality Standards, and Director of Environmental Planning. At GSA, among other achievements Mary instituted and managed quality control and assurance programs for the Service, and developed and published GSA's first "green" catalog. She earned several Outstanding Service awards and medals while at GSA.
In 1993, she joined the Environmental Protection Agency in the Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. With the approval of EPA's Administrator, she initiated and managed the EPA's first cross-office program for voluntary standards. As Director of the EPA Standards Network, she coordinated Agency use of non-government standards and managed EPA's participation in the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for the development of the ISO 14000 standards for Environmental Management. She was elected Vice Chair of the US TAG and continues to serve in that capacity.
In 1998, Mary was appointed by to the position of EPA Standards Executive. As such, her role is Agency-wide in responsibility and includes implementing the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act and OMB Circular A-119 throughout EPA. She heads up the Agency's Standards Program and represents the Agency on the Interagency Committee for Standards Policy. Mary represents EPA standards policies in national, regional and international standards-related fora, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC) and the South American Congress for Norms and Technical Standards (COPANT). She has earned the 1998 EPA Administrator's Silver Medal for Excellence in Service, as well as Silver and Bronze Agency medals from 1996 to the present.
Mary currently serves as a Vice Chair on the Board of Directors of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and is immediate past Chair of ANSI's Government Member Council. She has served on the Board of Directors for the International Policy Institute in Washington and represented the US in international environmental discussions involving standards through the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and the United Nations Committee on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) as well as in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Mary has numerous publications on standards and standards in regulations and regularly makes national and international presentations on standards-related topics.
Richard (Dick) B. Pettit
After gaining his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University in 1971, Dick joined Sandia National Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff. Initial assignments involved developing optical measurement techniques and optical coatings for solar collectors, including black chrome solar absorbers, light-weight flexible mirror materials, and antireflection coatings for glazings. Since 1986 he has been a manager in the Sandia Primary Standards Laboratory overseeing electrical metrology in AC, DC and Microwave disciplines.
Dr. Pettit's expertise includes:
- Metrology management systems and quality operations
- Calibration uncertainties
- Optical properties of solar absorbers, mirrors, and glazings
- Ellipsometry and multilayer thin film optical properties
- Thermal radiative properties of metals and coatings
- Transmission Electron Microscopy
- Enhanced superconductivity of thin films
He was a recipient of the Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Thermal Program Award in Technical Excellence in 1982; and he has been an American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Engineer since 1992. Among several professional societies and various honors, Dick serves as Vice President of Measurement Science and Technology for NCSL International (NCSLI); and he was the DOE representative to the National Cooperation for Laboratory Accreditation (NACLA). He is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Physical Society (APS).
Dick has been involved with the NCSLI for the past 13 years; he was Chairman of the Intrinsic/Derived Standards Committee for over 8 years and led the development of the recently published "Catalogue of Intrinsic/Derived Standards." He has organized several topical sessions and presented material on metrology issues at the annual NCSLI Symposium and Workshop, and he was the Technical Program Chair for the 2001 NCSLI Conference.
Dick's outside interests include bicycling, camping, gardening, and traveling. He and his wife, Ellen, have been involved with hosting and assisting foreign exchange students for over the past 10 years.
Mary H. Saunders
Mary H. Saunders is the Director of NIST's Office of Standards Services, which provides policy support for standards and conformity assessment activities for federal agencies. OSS administers programs in Laboratory Accreditation, Technical Standards Activities, Global Standards and Information, as well as the implementation of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995.
Ms. Saunders joined NIST in July 1993, having served for four years as Director of the Internal Market Staff of the Commerce Department's Office of European Community Affairs, where she developed a program to track developments in Europe in the areas of product safety standards, testing and certification and accreditation requirements, and ISO 9000 registration and accreditation. While at NIST, she has served in several different positions, including Chief of the Global Standards and Information Program and Program Analyst in the Office of the NIST Director. Ms. Saunders received the NIST Bronze Medal in 1995 and the Department of Commerce Silver Medal in 1999. She continues to be active in both domestic and international standardization.
Eric L. Stone
Mr. Stone is Director of the Legal Division of the Office of Compliance at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Since 1977, Mr. Stone has served as a trial attorney at the Commission litigating administrative and federal court cases. Mr. Stone also wrote the Commission's reporting regulations under section 15 of the Consumer Product Safety Act and the Child Safety Protection Act.
Mr. Stone graduated from the Washington College of Law (American University), Washington, D.C. in 1976 and received his BA from Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA in 1974. Mr. Stone has taught courses in consumer law, product liability and government regulation at the University of Maryland and has authored several articles and a book about the Commission's laws. (Consumer Product Safety Primer: An Industry Guide to the Regulatory System with Samuel Goldblatt, LRP Publications (1998))
James K. Walters
Jim Walters is the Director, International Standards, at the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI), Arlington, Va. ARI is a trade association whose members manufacture about 90% of the central air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment sold in North America and account for about 80% of $6 billion in exports per year. ARI administers the Secretariat of several ISO committees.
Prior to joining ARI's staff in April, 1999, Jim was Director and General Manager of a petroleum industry on-line information service, in New York, which he sold to an international on-line information company.
Jim's trade association and business experience includes managing an engineering standards and certification department and a $20 million for-profit products and services group at the American Petroleum Institute. Jim's background also includes government relations specializing in international trade issues. He is currently the Vice Chair of the Low Frequency Emissions Industry Coalition.
Jim was educated at the George Washington University, University of Virginia and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Jim is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Standards Engineering Society and The Center for Global Standards Analysis, and is a member of ASTM, The American Society of Association Executives, several committees of the American National Standards Institute, and the Industry Advisory Committee of the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University. He is formerly Secretary of ASTM Committee D-2.
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