This Ph.D. has been in the communications and computer engineering fields since the mid-1970s and engaged in standardization since the early 1980s in a variety of both expert and leadership roles.  He is active in various international standards educational and research initiatives including the biennial SIIT conference (Standardization and Innovation in IT)and an international journal on standards research.  He presently serves as Secretariat of ISO/IECJTC1 SC32 (Data Management and Interchange).

He pas played pioneering roles in such technologies as microprocessors, home networks, bar codes, RFID, VoIP, and energy systems.  He served on the University of Colorado, Boulder, College of Engineering faculty, teaching one of the few standards courses in the world.  He served a key role in founding its standards research center.  He holds a B.S. from Pepperdine University,and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado.  When not traveling for work, he lives in Boulder and is a consultant, advising governments, organizations, and law firms on standards policy and patent issues.

• Communication gateways and network interoperability

• Conflicts between patents and standards

• Conflicts between standards bodies and consortia bodies

• Data management and interchange - metadata methods andstandards

• Data privacy practices, policies, and conflicts

• Demand response and renewable energy integration

• Electric utility regulation and policy

• Home and building communication networks and protocols

• Home automation and consumer electronics technology andstandards

• Home electronic systems - technologies and standards

• IPR disclosure rules and practices in standards bodies

• International Standardization system policies - ISO/IEC/ITU

• Patent policies of standards bodies

• Powerline communication protocols

• RAND declaration andlicensing policies in standards bodies

• Smart grid technologies and standards

• Smart meters and metering networks

• U.S. Standardization system policies and practices - ANSI& NIST