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AIDC 100 Members

Chet Benoit

Chester Benoit
1925 – 2021

Chester N. Benoit November 6, 2021 Chester “Chet” N. Benoit unexpectedly died at his home in Skaneateles on November 6, 2021, eight days after Eleanor D. Benoit, his wife of nearly 65 years, passed away from cancer. Born July 22, 1925 in Putnam, CT, he was the only child of Napoleon (Bill) and Loretta Benoit. He attended St. Mary’s School for elementary and middle school and then Putnam High School. As an advanced student, he was granted early admittance to Tufts University and started his studies there in January 1943, while receiving his high school diploma that June. In June 1944, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and was called for active duty in November. Upon completing his training as a paratrooper and demolition specialist, Chet was deployed in May 1945 with the 503rd Regimental Combat Team to Negros Island in the Philippines. Following the end of the war, he was assigned to the 11th Airborne Division in Japan where he served during the U.S. occupation. Upon his discharge from the Army in May 1946, Chet returned to Tufts, where he served as class president and was a member of Theta Delta Chi. Upon his graduation in 1949, he started a 45-year sales and marketing career in the electrical and electronic control industry, spending the last 14 years with Welch Allyn’s Electronics Division, which was an early innovator in the design and manufacture of bar code scanning technology. While at Welch Allyn, Chet was an early contributor to the establishment and expansion of the bar code industry trade association Automatic Identification Manufacturers (AIM), and he served as its president in 1992. He retired from Welch Allyn in 1994. He was a dedicated communicant of St. Mary’s of the Lake Church in Skaneateles, a proud member of the American Legion Robert J. Hydon Post 239 in Skaneateles, and a long-time member of the Skaneateles Country Club, where he served on the board of directors. During his 53 years in Skaneateles, a community he loved so much, Benoit volunteered his time with numerous Central New York organizations, including the Oxford Street Inn, Unity Kitchens, Literacy Volunteers, FISH, Vera House, SAVES and Skaneateles Youth Hockey where he served as both a coach and longtime referee. Like his wife, Chet loved traveling and he was privileged enough to travel across the lower 50 states, Europe, South America, Australia and Asia. And like his wife, his favorite trips were to France, Italy and an Elder Hostel trip to Quebec, where they studied French for three weeks. Coming from a Quebecois family, in his younger years, Chet was a fluent French speaker and was educated by French-speaking nuns. Chet is survived by his four children: Jeffery Benoit (Donna) of Dennis, MA; Lisa Levinson of Delray, FL; Ellen Donovan (Todd) of Skaneateles; and Marc Benoit (Jenn Yackel) of Marcellus; and his eight grandchildren: Danielle Levinson, Matthew Benoit, Philip Benoit, Liam Donovan, John “Jack” Donovan, Aidan Donovan, Will Kirk and Caleb Kirk; sisters-in-law Joanne Lynch of Hooksett, NH and Martha Duffy of Lowell, MA; and eight nieces and nephews

Past Chairman

Paul Bergé

Paul Bergé manages his own consulting firm, providing services to manufacturers and resellers in the Automatic Data Capture industry. The primary focus of these consulting services is in international business development. Service offering includes: International business development, Mergers & Acquisitions, International cultural due diligence and alignment, Post merger integration planning, expert witness services in business areas such as international business and trade, distribution channels and AIDC related matters. He currently provides benchmarking services to members of AIM Global. Prior to starting his own company, Paul Bergé worked in Japan for three years as Executive Vice President of Olympus Symbol, Inc., a joint venture company between Olympus Optical Co. of Japan and Symbol Technologies, Inc. of Long Island, NY. Mr. Bergé has held several positions at Symbol Technologies over a fourteen year period, including Vice President International Marketing and Managing Director of Symbol Technologies International based in Brussels, Belgium. He has been instrumental in the development of Symbol’s international business in Europe, Latin America, Australia, Asia and the Pacific Rim. Mr. Bergé’s involvement with the Automatic Data Capture industry started in 1975 when he joined the Plessey Company, a European pioneer in bar coding systems, in the capacity of Sales Executive Europe. Prior to Plessey, he worked for several years in the computer business for Philips Data Systems, Nixdorf Computer and ITT Europe Voice/Data Systems Division. Paul Bergé was the founding Chairman of AIM Europe and Scan Tech Europe in 1984. He is a past-chairman of AIM International. He was the recipient of the Scan Newsletter International award and he was the first non-American recipient of the 1989 Dichard R. Dilling award in recognition for his development work for the Automatic Identification industry in international markets. Paul Bergé has lectured on various Automatic Identification subjects at conferences around the world. He was invited by the United Nations to lecture on bar coding in China in 1988, in support of UN efforts to help China become a better exporting country by improving the quality of packaging and by implementing bar code systems. Paul Bergé wsas Vice President Business Strategy at Flextronics International where he is responsible for market and industry research, strategy development and merger and acquisitions. He was Vice President International Operations at Paxar/Monarch, in Miamisburg, Ohio. Paxar/Monarch is a company providing bar code printing solutions to a wide variety of industries, as well as traditional price labeling machines for retail and other industries. Paxar Corporation is the world leader in woven and printed labels for the apparel industry. Paul Bergé was a citizen of the Netherlands, became US citizen in 2001. He speaks Dutch, English, French and German fluently and has a working understanding of Italian and Spanish.

On January 28th 2020 our husband, father, grandfather, father-in-law and dear friend was unexpectedly and prematurely torn out of our lives.

A caring man, he is survived by his beloved wife Elisabeth, his daughter Pauline, his son Alexander with his wife Katja and his two loving grandchildren Leonie and Florine Bergé. Paul’s life was dedicated to his family and to all who were ready to accept his friendship. He shall be remembered as a generous man, a fighter who never gave up when times were more challenging and a gentle soul who simply and silently loved the people around him. Paul shall be missed dearly by everyone who ever had the pleasure of meeting him.

Befitting a truly global person who relentlessly traveled the world throughout his entire life and continued doing so at an age where most people prefer to rest, this obituary was being preceded by an overwhelming wave of reactions on social media from across the planet. This career was made possible only through the never ending support and encouragement provide by his wife Elisabeth, who accompanied him on his numerous adventures. Educated in business in the Netherlands and later naturalized US American citizen, his contributions to the Automatic Identification Industry are as numerous as they are significant. His legacy bestow upon him adjectives such as “the Rock”, “Towering”, “Mr. Barcode” and the “Big Bear”.

Scattered across the world, Paul’s immediate family were truly thankful for being able to be united and together in supporting him during his last moments.

Elisabeth, Pauline, Alexander, Katja, Leonie and Florine Bergé

Charles (Chuck) Biss

GS1
3192 Barrington Way, Auburn, NY 13021

charles.e.biss@gmail.com

Charles E. “Chuck” Biss is presently Senior Director, AIDC Healthcare at GS1. Prior to September of 2008 he was Senior Analyst Markets & Industry Standardization at Honeywell Scanning and Mobility (formerly Hand Held Products, Inc., where he previously was Vice President of Verification Products) and has been involved in AIDC, bar code, image analysis and bar code verification for more than 35 years. Chuck started in the AIDC industry when he joined PSC Inc. (formerly Photographic Sciences Corporation) in 1973 and since then his focus has primarily been verification and industry standards development, as well as technical support / training and education. He was instrumental in the development of the Quick Check® verifier product line, which was developed in conjunction with Welch Allyns Data Collection Division and is now part of Honeywell Scanning and Mobility. While at PSC Inc. he had been primarily involved in engineering, production and technical support of bar code products with emphasis on technical support both internal and external to the Companys customers. Responsibilities included product and accessory design, development, organization and dissemination of customer input, product improvement, qualification and testing, technical documentation, sales and technical support, production and quality control related functions. When Hand Held Products acquired the Quick Check® Verification Product line and its employees from PSC in early 2001 he continued in his roles both within the technical and product line areas as well as his work in the national and international standards arena until his departure from Honeywell. At GS1 he is focusing on the AIDC aspects of their Healthcare initiatives on a global level as well as continuing many of his Standards activities. Chuck was formerly Chairman of the X3A1 Technical Subcommittee on Optical Character Recognition (until it went into an inactive maintenance role in 2000) and was Chair of that committee’s Work Group #3 during the development of the American National Standard X3.182-1995 [R] Bar Code Print Quality – Guideline. He also serves on (or has served on) various other industry standards committees for AIM Global (Standards Advisory Group, Technology Standards Executive Committee and Bar Code Technical Symbology Committee), AIAG (Automatic Identification Project Team committees relating to Bar Codes), ASTM (F05.03 Research Subcommittee), EIA (Bar Code Subcommittee), HIBCC (Bar Code Technical Committee), TCIF (Bar Coding committee), GS1 (formerly EAN / UCC where committee work included the BCID TG / GSC, BCID BRG / PTRG, QWG & other working committees), as well as the ANSI MH10.8 committee. He was formerly Vice Chair of ADC1 (the U.S. TAG to JTC 1/SC 31), Vice-Chair of ADC1s Task Group 3 on Conformance and Convenor of SC31s Work Group 3 on Conformance. He served as the Head of Delegation for the U.S. to SC31 general plenary meetings from its initial meeting until he recently was selected to serve as Chairman of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31, a position he continues to hold. He is a charter member of the AIDC 100, was the 2001 recipient of AIM Globals Richard R. Dilling Award. Until his move to GS1 he was also a member of the AIM Global Board of Directors. Chuck received his Bachelor’s Degree in Photographic Science and Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.

Ernesto Castagnet

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR
Viamonte 179, Bahia Bianca, B8000AKE

54-291-4550569
54-9-291-5044958(m)
castagnet_ernesto@yahoo.com.ar

Castagnet is a Professional Industrial Engineer (1986), from Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Bahia Blanca, Argentina; and former Technical Director of the Center for Automatic Identification, Education & Research (CAIDER), Russ College of Engineering & Technology, – Department of Industrial Technology – OHIO University, Athens, OHIO, USA (www.ohio.edu/autoid); from where he obtained a MSc IMSE (Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering)-Thesis pending (GPA: 3.61).- Professor at the Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS) and Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN), Bahía Blanca, Argentina; and former Instructor at the Department of Industrial Technology, Ohio University (OU), Mr. Castagnet is an International Expert in Automatic Identification and Data Capture Systems (AIDC), system evaluation, design, and project integration management. He has been directly involved in the AIDC industry for more than 20 years, since his first courses at OU, under the prestigious patronage of Dr. James F. Fales (Loehr Professor & Chairman, Department of Industrial Technology, OU, Athens, Ohio), AIDC 100 founding Member. Former Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Magazine AUTOMATIC ID NEWS Latin America (Advanstar Communications), he has been invited to speak at ID EXPO, SCAN-TECH USA, SCAN-TECH ARGENTINA, FRONTLINE SOLUTIONS, CARDTECH/SECURTECH, RFID SMART LABELS USA, RFID & RTLS Summit, GS1 ARGENTINA, and other International Trade Shows.- He worked for SULZER Brothers (Switzerland), EXXON, PETROBRAS (former ISAURA SA) and Dow Chemical Co. (former Petroquímica Bahía Blanca SA and Polisur SA) before founding his own company, INGENIERIA EN SISTEMAS SRL (INSIS SRL, 1990), devoted to: – Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) Systems, – Structured Cabling Systems, Fiber Optics and Networking As Partner-Manager of INSIS SRL he has advised on the use of, sold, installed and maintained Automatic Identification and Data Capture Systems for all kinds of Private Companies dealing with production, distribution, construction, service (Dow Chemical Co., Cargill, Solvay, Citibank, Transportadora de Gas del Sur -TGS-, REPSOL-YPF, AZURIX/ENRON), Government Institutions (Universities, City Halls, Health Agency, etc.), not only in Argentina but also in Uruguay and Paraguay. In 2001 he was appointed Advisor to the Ministry of Interior, Citizens National Registry, Argentina, in charge of defining how to build a new National Identity Document. He works as a Consultant in RFID and AutoID Systems for Gerson-Lehrman Group. Co-Author with Harold Clampitt of the soon-to-be-published RFID CERTIFICATION, in Spanish. He is founder and has held several positions in the Board of Directors of three Chambers: Cámara de Informática del Sud (1991), Automatic Identification Manufacturers (AIM-CASEL) Argentina (1997) and Cámara Argentina de Seguridad Electrónica (CASEL, 2001). He is also past-Member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE, 1986-1996). In 2007 he founded GELOyCA (Study Group in Logistics and Supply Chain) at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN), Argentina. Co-founder of the RFID in Construction Consortium (2009) he is an advisor to DASH-7 Alliance. He is also a member of the RFID Oil & Gas Solution Group. (www.rfidsolutiongroup.com) Member of the Christian Union of Business Executives (UNIAPAC International) and President of the Bahia Blanca Chapter, his personal interest lays in all AIDC technologies and their applications in Supply Chain, WMS (RTLS), in Distribution and in Government Applications; including linear and 2-D bar code system integration, biometrics, smart cards, RFID/EPC and Business Intelligence. Also Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is of his interest and has given conferences at Ave Maria University (Ave Maria, FL, USA), Junior Chamber International (Argentina), etc. He is married and has two children.

Harry Clark

KTP LIMITEDWALTHAM HOUSE
The Paddock, Lambwith Lane, New Ellerby, East Yorkshire, HU115AP UK

44-1964-562622
clark_aidc@btinternet.com

Harry Clark has been employed in the bar code industry since 1979, by Kings Town Photocodes Limited, (later renamed KTP), a supplier of Bar Code Film Masters and Bar Code Verifiers.

Appointed Technical Director in 1981 and Managing Director in 1983, the company developed into a supplier of bar code printers, data capture products, systems integrator and software developer to support a wide range of data capture applications.

The company served customers in industries including retail, food processing, manufacturing, transport, warehousing and service industries.

The company placed high emphasis on the development of its quality assurance systems, total quality management, team working culture and the implementation of BS5750 part 1, (later ISO9001) in the company.

KTP Limited was awarded Investor in People 1993 and Industry Exemplar 1994, by the Yorkshire Office of the Department of Trade and Industry, for its contribution to training in Total Quality Management of other companies in Yorkshire, through open house training and demonstration days at KTP.

Regional Training Award 1995 and National Training Award 1996 for the quality of the training of its staff in Total Quality Management and Environmental Awareness.

1984 – 1990 Chairman of AIM U.K. and AIM Europe Technical Committees, working on the development of linear bar code symbology standards, 2D symbology standards, application standards and educational material for the automatic identification and data capture industry.

1990 – 2001 Convener of CEN TC225 Work Group 1, developing CEN International Symbology Standards.

2001 to 2006 Chairman of CEN TC225 the CEN Committee responsible for the development of Automatic Identification and Data Capture Standards for Europe.

1990 to 2006 Member of BSI IST34 Committee shadowing the work of CEN TC225 and the work of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC31.

1996 – 2005 Served as a U.K. expert in the work of SC31, involved in the work of Work Group 1 Symbology Standards and Work Group 3 Conformance Standards.

1998 – 2005 Served as the secretary to SC31 WG3 Conformance Standards.

2000- 2005 Served as the secretary to SC31 WG3 SG1 RFID Conformance Standards.

Represented the U.K. at plenary meetings of SC31 as both H.O.D. and member of delegation.

Other positions held:

Honourary Lecturer in Automatic Identification and Data Capture, Keele University 1992 – 1997.

Honourary Lecturer in Automatic Identification and Data Capture, Birmingham University 1997- 2002.

Recipient of the 2002 AIM Global, Richard R. Dilling Award for services to the AIDC Industry.

Speaker at many seminars and conferences on a wide range of topics, including Symbol printing, Bar Code Technology, RFID Technology, Systems Integration, Bar Code Symbology Standards and Conformance to Standards in AIDC Applications.

Hobbies.

Walking with my wife, including long distance walks, reading, restoring and riding British motorcycles and serving as a deck hand on the square rigged sailing ships of the Sail Training Youth Trust.

David Collins

Dave Collins

He led the development of the first commercially successful barcode scanners and was widely considered the “father of the barcode industry,” died at his home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on Saturday, March 12. He was 86. The cause of death was complications from ALS.

Now ubiquitous, barcodes on retail products are scanned at an estimated rate of more than 3 billion times per day, while manufacturing and service industries around the world have also been revolutionized by using barcodes to speed processing, limit errors, and manage inventory. Mr. Collins is named on several patents issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office that enabled broad, global adoption of barcode technology.

In 1959, Mr. Collins joined Sylvania Electric Products at its Applied Research Lab in Waltham, Massachusetts. There he created a system to track railroad cars labeled with a unique pattern of red, white, blue, and black bars. Bolted to the side of railroad cars on three-foot tall metal plates, these early “bar codes” could be read by laser scanners positioned along the tracks, accurately identifying the cars as they sped by.

Convinced this technique had applications well beyond the railroad industry, Mr. Collins left Sylvania in 1968 to found his own company, Computer Identics Corporation, in Westwood, Massachusetts. By 1970, the company had developed the first black and white barcodes, as well as helium-neon laser scanners capable of reading them, allowing other industries to benefit from them. The first applications were for a General Motors assembly line, scanning axles destined for new Pontiacs, and for package delivery, with precursors to the portable scanners now used by FedEx and UPS drivers worldwide.

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Computer Identics scanners read the barcodes printed on badges for every athlete, journalist, and staff member. This novel security feature was so successful that every Olympic Games since then has adopted badges with integrated barcodes.

After stepping away from day-to-day management of Computer Identics in 1987, Mr. Collins formed a consulting, research, and educational firm called Data Capture Institute where he advised on advanced barcode solutions for large multinational corporations and for branches of the US Government, including the FAA, the Department of Defense, and the FDA.

David was a charter member of the AIDC 100.

In 2011, the United States Congress issued an official Certificate of Appreciation to Mr. Collins, recognizing him as “the father of the barcode industry.”

David Jarrett Collins was born the youngest of three children on February 11, 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother was Margaret (Missett) Collins and his father was Walton R. Collins.

Mr. Collins attended La Salle College High School and joined the renowned Vesper Boat Club on nearby Schuylkill River, rowing to two national championships in his teens. In 1957, he graduated from Villanova University with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering; he would later receive the school’s Morehouse Memorial Award for “outstanding achievement at the highest level.”

Moving to Boston, Mr. Collins earned a Master of Science degree in industrial management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management in 1959. It was at MIT that Mr. Collins traded in his rowing oars and learned to sail, soon becoming an avid competitor. Racing out of Duxbury Yacht Club and Beverly Yacht Club, in Marion, Massachusetts, he and his crews won numerous regattas in his boats, Resolute, Schuylkill Navy, X-Dimension (which he later donated to MIT’s sailing program), and Next Dimension. Notably, he competed in Edgartown Race Weekend, one of the nation’s top regattas, for 48 consecutive years, frequently winning his class.

With a lifelong love of the water, Mr. Collins and his wife, Joan Hacker Collins, enjoyed many winters at their home on the island of Kauai, generously hosting their visiting family and friends.

Mr. Collins is survived by his wife Joan of Duxbury; his son Jarrett and wife Lee of Wellesley, Massachusetts; his daughter Catherine and husband Erik Hall of Snohomish, Washington; his son Michael and wife Jill of Duxbury; his son Timothy of Saunderstown, Rhode Island; his son Peter and wife Meredith of Portsmouth, Rhode Island; his stepdaughter Libby Hacker and husband Jan den Dikken of Scituate, Massachusetts; his stepdaughter Leslie Overbye and husband Chris of Southborough,

Massachusetts; his stepdaughter Hilary Gately and husband Jeff of Duxbury; twelve beloved grandchildren; and his first wife Ann of Duxbury. He was preceded in death by his parents, his brother Walton, Jr., and his sister Margaret Collins Hemp.

Stephen Cuntz

Stephen Gregory Cuntz, 69, of Union, KY passed away at home on Saturday, November 4, 2023. He was born on December 20, 1953, in Cincinnati, OH.

Steve grew up in Norwood, Ohio, then moved early in his life to West Chester, where he was a Lakota High School graduate, class of 1972. While at Lakota, his love for sports blossomed, as evidenced by the success he earned on the football field, eventually garnering an induction into the Athletic Hall of Fame. After high school, Steve attended Xavier University on a football scholarship, where he earned both his Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and his Master’s degree in Finance. He also became a Certified Public Accountant. Later in his life, he would come to serve on the Board of Trustees for Xavier University.

Steve was a man of many talents and accomplishments. He had a love for music, learning to sing and play the guitar. He would often be quick to strike up a tune around family gatherings or play at the company fall festival for employees. Throughout his life, Steve exercised his mind, body, and spirit daily. He was an avid reader and lifelong learner interested in history, music, and world affairs. The knowledge he gained was often shared in conversation to offer unique perspectives and a well-informed point of view. Physically, Steve enjoyed working out and looked forward to playing wallyball with his friends every Thursday night for many years. Spiritually, Steve was a devout Catholic eager to serve the community and share in the blessings of a life’s work.

His professional life brought a bounty of world travel with his wife Vicki, making great memories throughout the years. He would make it a point to visit and learn from historical places. Back at home, one could always find Steve outdoors where he loved to be, whether it was boating in the summertime or singing around a fire. He had a deep love for family, and spending time with them on the home front was a joy. Later in life, with the blessings of wonderful grandchildren, he loved cooking their favorite breakfasts and watching all their activities, considering such to be one of life’s greatest joys.

Steve was an accomplished businessman with an uncommon inner drive, instrumental in building BlueStar, the world’s leading specialty electronics distributor. He had a natural entrepreneurial spirit centered on a customer-first culture, forging a company DNA that made BlueStar a standout in the industry. As founder, President and CEO, Steve led the company for over 30 years. During that time, the company was presented with countless industry awards.

Steve was awarded the prestigious Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” designation and has served on the E&Y committees to evaluate future winners. He led BlueStar to numerous business awards, such as the Deloitte Cincinnati USA 100, the Cincinnati Business Courier Fast 55, and the Northern Kentucky “Emerging 30.” Steve served on the Board of the Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM) and the Executive Committee for the Retail Solutions Providers Association (RSPA). He was Chairman of the BlueStar Board of Directors. For those who had the honor of knowing and working with Steve, he was recognized for his gifted intellect, visionary outlook, mentorship, and, above all, leadership.

Steve was a great man with a massive heart, as evidenced by his life’s work and intense love from his family, friends, and employees. Steve will be remembered for his outstanding character, a great sense of humor, and love for his family.

Stephen is preceded in death by his parents, Geraldine Chieco Ritter and Louis and Nora Cuntz; sister, Deborah Cuntz; and brother, Duke Cuntz.

Those left to carry on his great legacy are his loving wife, who he adored for 46 years, Victoria Pitzer Cuntz; daughters, Katie (Jacob) Irwin, Emily (James) Wright, and Chelsea Williams; his adoring grandchildren, J.R., Colton, Duke, Lily, Sophie, Evie; brother, John Cuntz; sisters, Terea Kinney, Kimberly Mann, and Gigi Dales; uncle, Michael Chieco; aunt, Mary Lucas; numerous brothers-in-law and sister-in-law’s , nieces, nephews, and many special friends who will miss him beyond measure.

A visitation will be held Friday, November 10, 2023, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at St. Timothy Catholic Church, 10272 US-42, Union, KY 41091. A Mass of Christian burial will follow at 6:00 p.m. at the church. A private burial will take place at the convivence of the family at St. John’s Cemetery in Ft. Mitchell, KY.

In place of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made in Stephen’s name to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Cincinnati, Cincinnati/Dayton Office Staff, PO Box 29, Milford, OH 45150, or donate to St. Timothy Catholic School, 10268 US-42, Union, KY 41091.

Daniel Engels

817-676-1031 (m)
817-272-1058
dwe@alum.mit.edu

Formerly, served as Director and founder of the MIT Healthcare Research Initiative (HRI). The HRI is the leading research program investigating the use of RFID technologies to improve patient safety. As the leader of the HRI, setting all research directions, developing new avenues of research, developing and securing funding for activities, and developing new funding sources for the HRI. A critical aspect of my responsibilities is the building of relationships and cooperative research programs with other research groups, professors, and researchers both within and without MIT. Often invited to speak at industrial and non-academic conferences in addition to peer-reviewed research publications. MIT Research Scientist/Auto-ID Labs Director of Research: (October 2003 June 2005) Director of Research leading all activities of the Auto-ID Labs of MIT. As the leader of the Auto-ID Labs, setting all research directions, developing new avenues of research, developing and securing funding for activities, and developing new funding sources for the Auto-ID Labs. Responsible for developing new Auto-ID Labs member laboratories in unrepresented areas of the world. Primary RFID research is in the areas of the Reader Collision Problem, UHF tag antenna designs, tools for RFID use, the EPC System, and the impact of RFID on Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance. Principle liaison to EPCglobal. Often invited to speak at industrial and non-academic conferences in addition to peer-reviewed research publications. MIT Sponsored Research Technical Supervisor/Auto-ID Center Director of Protocols: (October 2002 October 2003) Director of Protocols leading the research and development of RFID standards, protocols for their use, and compliance and compatibility tests for systems developed to these standards. Lead the development of the Auto-ID Class 1 Generation 1 UHF and HF protocols. Primary RFID research is in the areas of the Reader Collision Problem, protocols for tag anti-collision, and RF signaling between tag and reader. Co-research advisor (with Prof. Sanjay Sarma) to several graduate students researching problems in RFID systems. Technical manager of the Auto-ID Centers Field Trial. Technical liaison to Auto-ID Center sponsors and potential sponsors. Often invited to speak at industrial and non-academic conferences in addition to peer-reviewed research publications. MIT Sponsored Research Technical Supervisor/Auto-ID Center Associate Director: (March 2002 October 2002) Associate Director in charge of managing the day-to-day research activities of the MIT Auto-ID Center Lab and all technical aspects of the design, deployment, and management of the Auto-ID Centers Field Trial. Technical liaison to Auto-ID Center sponsors and potential sponsors. Evangelist for the Auto-ID Center, speaking at industrial and non-academic conferences. Co-leader of action groups formed for the development of HF and UHF RFID tag interface standards recommendations. Co-research advisor (with Prof. Sanjay Sarma) to several graduate students researching problems related to RFID systems. MIT Sponsored Research Technical Supervisor/Auto-ID Center Program Manager: (December 2000 February 2002) Program Manager in charge of managing the day-to-day research activities of the MIT Auto-ID Center Lab and all technical aspects of the design, deployment, and management of the Auto-ID Centers Field Trial. Technical liaison to Auto-ID Center sponsors and potential sponsors. MIT Postdoctoral Associate: (June 2000 November 2000) Performed research in all areas related to the Auto-ID Centers system design, implementation,and application. MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS)/Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Research Assistant: (September 1996 June 2000) Doctoral research developed a new design scheme for the automated partitioning of embedded system functionality into hardware and software components. The partitioning scheme is based upon a novel approach that formulates the partitioning problem as a scheduling with rejection problem involving lag times. The complexity of scheduling problems involving lag times allowing job rejection was determined. This theoretical analysis provides a tight characterization of the complexity of these problems, identifying those scheduling problems that can be optimally solved in polynomial time and providing approximation schemes for some problems that are NP-hard. MIT Visiting Scientist: (June 1995 August 1996) Investigated problems involved in designing small embedded systems and laid the foundation for my doctoral research. University of California, Berkeley, CA. Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL). Graduate Student Researcher: (June 1993 May 1995) Member of the Polis Hardware/Software Co Design group lead by Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni- Vincentelli. Masters thesis research involved investigating and implementing the automatic generation of a real-time task level scheduler within the Polis Co design Environment. Graduate Student Instructor: (August 1992 May 1993) Teaching Assistant (TA) for the core Digital Design course. Duties included preparing and presenting discussion section materials, preparing and grading weekly lab assignments, and helping students with questions on class material, homeworks, lab assignments, and the course project. As Head TA in Spring 1993 duties also included evaluating and creating exams, maintaining grading information for all students, and preparing and presenting special subject lectures. Eastman Kodak Company, Office Imaging Division, Rochester, NY. Summer Intern: (Summer 1992) Redesigned the memory system on the main control board of a copier to take advantage of FLASH memory technology. Involved the research of FLASH memory technology, interacting with Intel sales representatives and technical support, interaction with socket vendors to obtain prototype sockets for the FLASH memory, use of Daisy/Cadnetix CAD tools to modify the existing schematic. Summer Intern: (Summer 1991) Created an archival program for the released files generated by the Daisy/Cadnetix software. Created a data base for budgetary and maintenance purposes using the Ingres Relational Database Software. Summer Intern: (Summer 1990) Created three programs used to convert the output files of the Daisy/Cadnetix software from one format to a format usable by the manufacturing equipment for circuit board designs. Record of Research Funding Massachusetts Institute of Technology EPCglobal, Inc., Next Generation Auto-ID Research, 2003-05. Co-Principal Investigator with funding of $2,000,000/year. U.S. Department of Defense, Global Asset Visibility Technology Demonstration, 2004. Co-Principal Investigator with total funding of $43,723. Cambridge-MIT Institute, Intelligent Software for Ubiquitous RFID Deployment, 2004-2005. Co-Principal Investigator with total funding of $202,679. Packaging and RFID Special Interest Group Consortium 2004-05. Co-Principal Investigator with total funding to date of $630,000. Healthcare Research Initiative Consortium 2004-05. Co-Principal Investigator with total funding to date of $130,000. Consulting ODIN Technologies, Reston, VA. Architectural Consultant: (November 2003 -Present) Provide technical expertise and advise on the design and deployment of RFID systems, supply chain processes, and application systems and develop technical white papers and experimental evaluations for RFID systems. Projects include the deployment of RFID systems for asset tracking at a U.S. law enforcement agency, airline baggage and cargo tracking, and case and pallet identification at FMCG manufacturers. Mitsubishi Corporation, New York, NY. Strategic Consultant: (May 2004 -September 2004) Developed a strategic blueprint for Mitsubishi Corporation to provide services in secure ocean cargo operations. Provided training sessions on C-TPAT, Container Security Initiative (CSI), and Operation Safe Commerce (OSC) security mandates and programs. Stryker Homedical, Mahwah, NJ. RFID Expert Consultant: (May 2004 -July 2004) Provided training and education on RFID technologies and their use within the manufacturing environment. Developed an implementation plan for the deployment of RFID technologies to improve manufacturing quality control. Revelink, Lincoln, MA. Software Engineer: (June 2000 -August 2000) Designed and implemented a scheduling engine for Revelinks operations management and manufacturing management product suite. The scheduling engine was designed to allow incremental and continuous task updates to allow real-time process and resource monitoring and task rescheduling and resource reallocation as required by changes in the status of personnel, resources, and task completions. Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science conferred June 2000. Thesis Title: Scheduling for Hardware-Software Partitioning in Embedded System Design. University of California, Berkeley, CA. M.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science conferred June 1995. Thesis Title: Real-Time Task Level Scheduling in the Polis Codesign Environment. University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering conferred June 1992. Summa Cum Laude Honors/Awards NCAA Division I East Coast Conference Scholar-Athlete Award in Wrestling 1992. NCAA Division II Wrestling All-American 1991. NCAA Division II Academic All-American 1991. GAAN Fellowship 1993. Clifford C. Furnas Scholar/Athlete Award/Fellowship 1992. NSF Fellowship, Honorable Mention 1992. University at Buffalo Honors Scholar 1988-1992. New York State Empire Scholarship of Excellence 1988-1992. New York State Regents Scholarship 1988-1992. Herring College Scholarship 1988-1992. Eastman Kodak Scholarship 1989-1992. Grace W. Capen Memorial Award for Academic Excellence 1990. Society of Logistics Engineers Scholarship 1989.

John Esserian

07/15/1928 – 03/20/1017

Armen John Esserian, Inventor of the First Handheld Barcode Reader, Passes Away: Armen John Esserian of Lincoln, Mass., formerly of Cambridge and Lexington, passed away on March 20 with his loving family by his side. Beloved father of John A. Esserian and his wife Jennifer, Pamela Esserian, Melanie Jandl, and her husband James. Proud and cherished grandfather of John and Robert Esserian, Samantha and Jillian Jandl. Loving brother of Gloria Kapalis, Helen Esserian, and the late Madeleine Koshgarian. Many special nieces, nephews, cousins, and long-time companion the late Marie Burch. Armen John Esserian was born July 15, 1928 to Arika and Jack in Watertown, Mass. His formative interests included Cartography, Classical Music, Fine Art, and Middle East History. In his Senior Honors year at Watertown High, Armen authored La Mer, a compilation of oceanic poetry paired with charming marine-themed sketches. This hard covered treasure of creativity was inspired by Debussys symphony, La Mer. Armen was awarded a full ROTC scholarship to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Impeccably timed, his graduating class of 1950 was the final eligible year of acceptance for WWII recruits. Armens path to becoming an engineer was afoot. While studying Economics and Engineering, Esserian was also passionate about his aviation training. He often stopped by the family restaurant, Queens Lunch, before commuting by streetcar to classes in Cambridge. When the government no longer needed young servicemen after WWII, Mr. Esserians aviation dreams were replaced with another vision. After his MIT graduation, his career path led to the Star Market Supermarket chain. Amidst the food industry, Armen also known as John, applied his state-of-the-art insights. In 1957 he posted a letter to himself (MIT Library Archives), outlining a vision that would revolutionize the grocery industry forever. This historic letter included a block diagram of a computerized check-out System using a handheld scanner and pricing via data codes. In 1960, as president of his new company, Character Recognition or CHARECOGN, Inc., John designed a black and white circular SUNBURST to encode data. Charecogn, Inc. developed cutting-edge technology that created a scanner device that read the sunburst codes, which held numerous US Patents. In August 1970, Charecogn, Inc. demonstrated the ease of bar code scanning to the USDA, who originally used this technology in the New England dairy industry. The USDA press release of this 1970 demo stated CHARECOGN SYSTEMS, INC. is the first firm to develop a working trial model. The event was covered by NBC, ABC, BBC, Wall St. Journal, Wash. Post. John was deluged for demo requests of his invention from Paris to the Pentagon. In 1999 John attended The Smithsonian Museum of Washington, D.C., where an exhibit detailing the invention of the product identification code and highlighting Johns contributions specifically was unveiled. Funeral services at Saint James Armenian Church, 465 Mount Auburn Street Watertown on March 24 at 11 a.m. Visiting hours at the Aram Bedrosian Funeral Home, 558 Mount Auburn Street, Watertown on March 23, from 4-8 p.m. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to Saint James Armenian Church or Armenian Museum of America (65 Main Street, Watertown, Mass. 02472). Interment at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Chuck Evanhoe

5089 Norman Blvd, Dayton, OH 45431-1224

Tel: (937) 235-2995
Fax: (937) 235-8692

Mr. Chuck Evanhoe, President of Evanhoe & Associates, Inc., is internationally recognized as an expert in Automatic Identification and Data Capture and Collection (AIDC) technologies, a key enabler for the Internet of Things (IoT).

He volunteers as an active member and Chair of the US Technical Advisors Group (ADC1 TAG), the U.S. mirror committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 -Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques, for radio frequency identification (RFID), real-time locating systems (RTLS) and bar code standards and the past Convenor of SC 31’s Work Group (WG) 8 – Application of AIDC Standards. He is also Chair of the INCITS IoT TAG, the U.S. mirror committee to ISO/IEC/JTC 1/ SC 41 – IoT Standards, and a member of the INCITS Artificial Intelligence (AI) TAG. In addition to serving as Chairman, Association for Automatic Identification & Mobility (AIM, Inc.) Board of Directors, he is also an active member of AIM’s RFID Experts Group (REG), the RAIN RFID Marketing Alliance and the ANSI MH10.8 Sub-committee on Coding & Labeling of Unit-Loads. He is also a Sr. Member of IEEE.

He founded Evanhoe & Associates, Inc. in 1996 as a provider of information technology (IT), automatic identification technologies (AIT), and automatic identification and data collection & capture (AIDC) solutions. Evanhoe & Associates serves both the commercial and government markets and employees with over 75 people across the U.S.

Boards and Technical Groups

Chairman, AIM (Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility) Global Board of Directors, 2011 – present; Member, 2009 – present
AIM North America Board of Directors, Member, 2007 – present; Chairman, 2009 – 2011
Chair, US Technical Advisors Group (TAG), ADC1, to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC31 for barcode and RFID standards, 2013 – present; Member, 2006 – present
Chair, US TAG, INCITS IoT, to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 41, 2013 – present; Member, 2012 – present
Member, US TAG, INCITS AI, to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 42, 2017 – present
Member, ANSI MH10.8 Sub-committee for barcode and RFID standards and TAG to ISO TC122, 2006 – present
Member, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 (Bar Code and RFID Standard Committee)
Member and past Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 8 (Application of AIDC Standards)
Member, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41 (Internet of Things Standards Committee)
Member, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 (Artificial Intelligence Standards Committee)
Member, ISO TC122/WG12 & WG14 (Labeling Standards)
Member, AIM RFID Experts Group (REG), 2006 – present
Member, AIM IoT (Internet of Things) Experts Group, 2011 – present
Board Member, RAIN RFID Marketing Alliance, 2014 – present
Member, GS1 GSMP (Global Standards Management Process)
Member, AIDC 100
Sr. Member, IEEE

Milt Field

1917-2009

Milton Field March 9, 1917 – Jan. 5, 2009 In addition to his son, he is survived by a daughter, Lori Ellen Concilio of McDonald; two sisters, Irene Schepartz of Tallahassee, Fla., and Lois Shapiro of Pittsburgh; and two granddaughters. Milton Field 91, who devoted his working life to codes — first breaking Japanese codes for the U.S. Army during World War II and later developing bar codes used on consumer goods. The Hill District native graduated at age 16 from Schenley High School in 1933 and got a job at James H. Matthews & Co., which later became Matthews International, a Pittsburgh firm whose products include stamping and marking materials. While beginning what would become a nearly 50-year career with Matthews, Mr. Field studied printing at Connelly Trade School and later at Carnegie Institute of Technology, a predecessor to Carnegie Mellon University, where in 1940 he earned a degree in print management and graphic arts. When Mr. Field enlisted in the Army in August 1941, he was selected to train as a code breaker for the Signal Corps and the following year was sent to New Guinea in the South Pacific. “Bad days for the Allies. We were on the defensive with minimal forces,” Mr. Field told The Pittsburgh Press in a 1978 interview. But the young soldier was on the team that decoded an intercepted message that detailed Japanese plans to attack New Guinea in early 1943. Using the advance information, Allied air forces assembled bombing crews and eventually won a major victory in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Mr. Field’s unit received a Presidential Citation for its efforts and Mr. Field also earned three Bronze Stars during his military service, said his son, James Field of Mt. Lebanon. Milt Field is truly one of the founding fathers of the Auto-ID industry. When the U. P. C. Symbol was introduced, Milt immediately recognized the great potential in this technology. At this time, working at Matthews International Corporation, he became a pioneer in the implementation of this technology across a wide range of applications. Milt created the Symbol Systems business unit at Matthews, a major supplier of plates to the printing and graphics industry. This unit started out creating U. P. C. bar code symbol artwork using a labor intense method to produce the film masters. Recognizing the need for faster, more efficient and a more accurate method for producing masters, Milt worked with Perkin-Elmer Corporation (and Harry Palmer, who later founded RJS) to develop a state of the art photo-plotter (micro-densitometer) that quickly and accurately produced symbol film masters to a tolerance of ±5 microns. Again, working with Harry Palmer, Milt obtained for Matthews the initial exclusive sales and marketing rights for the first automatic bar code verification device, the Matthews Micro-Chek (also known as the Auto-Scan). This unit was, for many years, the only device capable of verifying a film master to the ±5 microns spec. In the mid-1970s the U.P.C. program was struggling to become accepted. [In fact in 1976 Business Week published an article headlined The Supermarket Scanner That Failed.] Milt developed a series of educational seminars sponsored by Matthews to promote symbol source-marking to supermarket suppliers, a first for any AIDC equipment vendor. Milt championed the technology to a broad range of industries; and was particularly influential in the adoption of the U.P.C. by the magazine, recording and alcoholic beverage industries. Because the Graphics Division of Matthews was a major supplier of plates for printing on corrugated, both in the U.S. (14 plants) and Europe, Milt was a pioneer in the development of the SCC using the Interleaved Two of Five symbology. He was a charter member of the Distribution Symbology Study Group (DSSG) that developed the specifications for the SCC, a major initial step toward the use of barcodes in logistics and warehouse management. Milt received a BA in Graphic Arts from Carnegie Institute of Technology (latter to become Carnegie Mellon University).

Richard P. Fox, Jr.

FOX IV TECHNOLOGIES
6011 Enterprise Drive Export, PA 15632

724-387-3500
rfox@foxiv.com

Rick Fox is President and CEO of FOX IV Technologies, Inc. a manufacturer and integrator of automated labeling systems. He founded FOX IV Technologies, Inc. in 1997. He has been involved with automatic identification since 1982. Rick started his career as an engineer for Matthews International Corporation. Subsequent positions at Matthews included Corporate Manager of New Business Development, Manager of Symbol Systems, and Manager of the Ink Jet Business. Symbol Systems initially manufactured precision bar code symbol film-masters that were used in the production of flexographic printing plates. During this time, Rick served as a consultant to Sears in developing the Sears bar code standards. Under Rick the Symbol Systems business was expanded to include label printer applicators for automatically printing and applying bar code labels to products and cartons. Rick worked on a team, which included Neal Otto of CRM, to develop the worlds first label printer applicator. The business was further expanded to include turnkey system integration of bar codes into manufacturing plants and distribution centers. As Global Manager of the Matthews Ink Jet Business, Rick had P&L responsibility for Matthews ink jet business in North America and global marketing responsibility. Rick was responsible for developing Matthews internal test procedures and guidelines for using continuous ink jet, drop-on-demand ink jet, and impulse ink jet technologies to print bar codes on porous and non-porous surfaces. Rick was actively involved in AIM from 1982 until 2001, having served on the Board of Directors and as the chairperson of numerous committees including the Quality Committee, the Consumables Committee, and as a member of the International Finance Committee. Rick served as Scan Tech Promotion Chair in 1990, Scan Tech Seminar Chair in 1991, and Scan Tech Event Chair in 1992 and 1993. Rick has been actively involved with the Uniform Code Council since 2000, having served on the Conference Advisory Committee and currently a member of the Global Symbology Committee. Rick was a member of the North American Healthcare Group that developed guidelines for the use of the Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) for healthcare. Rick is currently a member of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) board of directors and a member of the PMMI RFID Expert Group. The RFID Expert group recently completed revisions to REG ToR13 Proposed Guidelines for the Use of Passive RFID Transponders on Packages and Pallets for Commercial (non-military) Uses. Rick will be presenting REG ToR13 at the Pack Expo Conference in September, 2005. Publications include: — Offsite Bar Code Printing, Scan Tech 1983 — Onsite Bar Code Printing, Scan Tech 1984 — Printing Bar Codes on Corrugated FTA Technical Seminar 1986 — Smart RFID Labeling Approaches, co-author with David Sakai Chapter 7, RFID Labeling Book, 2004. Rick Fox received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology and a Bachelor of Science degree Magna Cum Laude – in Business Administration from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also received an MBA in Marketing and coursework towards a PhD in Strategic Planning and Finance from the University of Pittsburgh. He currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the School of Engineering at Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA. Rick has received a patent and has one pending on the automatic application of labels and the identification and selective application of RFID labels and inlays.

Robert Fox

1636 Siskiyou Drive
Walnut Creek, CA 94598-2119

513-460-6957
bob@rfoxentp.com

Bob Fox was involved with bar code and the automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) industry from 1988 through 2017. He was Senior Engineer and provides consulting services for the development of AIDC standards and the implementation of automatic identification systems for Ericsson US (who acquired Mr. Fox’s previous employer, Telcordia Technologies, in 2012), telephone companies and equipment manufacturers, as well as providing support for the Ericsson’s COMMON LANGUAGE® Products Group’s equipment coding business. He has worked with several industries, including aerospace, healthcare and electric utilities. Mr. Fox has provided expert assistance with the design, compliance, training and implementation of Department of Defense (DoD) Unique Item Identification (UID) policy and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unit dose and other bar code requirements. As Chair of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS – formerly the Telecommunications Industry Forum – TCIF) AIDC Committee (AIDC) (from 1998 through 2015), Mr. Fox led the development of the Product Marking Implementation Guideline, which introduced two-dimensional (2D) symbols to the telecom industry, modified the Implementation Guide to Package Labeling to incorporate 2D symbols on package and shipping labels and developed a guideline for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tagging.

He was Chair of the ANSI MH10 Subcommittee 8 (from 2014-2017) which developed U.S. material handling standards

He was acting chair of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) R9 Automatic Data Collection (ADC) Committee – which developed national (ANSI – American National Standards Institute) standards for bar code usage for the electronics industry (e.g., component and product marking, shipping and package labels), which has been disbanded. These standards are now maintained by ANSI MH10 Subcommittee 8.

He had implemented and directed Telcordia’s Bar Code Label and Equipment Test Laboratory for the testing and verification of Bar Code labels, printers, scanners and portable data collection terminals.

He developed and directed a label printing business to support the production of equipment labels for Telcordia COMMON LANGUAGE Equipment Codes (CLEI™ Codes).

Mr. Fox had represented Ericsson US on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for international standards for bar code printing and equipment conformance (Task Group 3), data carriers/symbologies (Task Group 1), data structure (Task Group 2) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) (Task Group 4).

He supported over 1000 manufacturers in their use of Ericsson’s Generic Requirements document for bar code labels (GR383-CORE) for telecommunications network equipment. He is responsible for updating the GR-383-CORE document as technology changes and experience from usage demands.

Mr. Fox provided guidelines for specifying and selecting bar code label materials and print technology.

He provided specifications and training to telecommunications carrier companies to incorporate bar code technology; procure bar code labels; select bar code scanners, portable data collectors and bar code printers for several tracking and inventory projects. These specifications, training and systems have significantly reduced the cost to perform these functions prior to their use.

He designed, developed, implemented and maintained systems for a bar code capital assets tracking for several telephone operating companies.

He provided information and specifications to support the implementation of Radio Frequency Data Communications.

Mr. Fox introduced bar code and associated systems to Boeing Helicopters. He developed automatic identification standards as well as test and verification procedures for bar code for the Boeing Company and chaired their first corporate AIDC standards committee.

He educated manufacturing and engineering personnel, and programmers in bar code

Served on the FACT Data Identifier Committee, which created the ANSI standard (now ANSI MH10.8.2 and ISO/IEC 15418) for Data Application Identifiers.

Mr. Fox developed, marketed, hosted and presented the standards overview information for the Frontline Solutions/Supply Chain Systems Expo Telecommunications Product Marking Symposium in 2001 and the Telecommunications Product Marking and Logistics Symposium in 2002. At SCAN-TECH 91, he presented a technical paper on Asset Tracking. He also presented a technical paper on the benefits of Data Identifiers (a set of characters which identifies the type of data within a bar code) and the FACT Data Identifier Standard at SCAN-TECH 88. Mr. Fox, along with Bob Rylander (Rylander & Associates), developed and presented several seminars on AIDC Basics, RFID and AIDC System implementation for various industries. This seminar was available on-line through Cincinnati State Technical & Community College (Ohio) and Pueblo Community College (Colorado).

Mr. Fox has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration degree. He is currently retired but does tax work in season and spends time with his grandchildren who live in Napa, CA.

Vice President

Paula Giovannetti

Retired

Paula Giovannetti has been working with Automatic Identification and Data Capture technologies, including manufacturing and retail implementations; national and international standards work and teaching AIDC basics since the 1990’s.

Teaching

Gateway Technical College – Adult Education Courses in PC Basics, Barcodes, Supply Chain

Ohio University – AIDC Technical Institute, Supply Chain Lab

Memphis University – AIDC Technical Institute, Intro to AIDC, Emerging Technologies, QR Lab

Industry Publications Author

A User Guide: Identifying Trade Items and Logistics Units in the Open Supply Chain used by several retailers.

ISA eBusiness Implementation Guide for the Industrial Supply Manufacturing Association; architect a method published in the GS1 General Specifications to identify made-to-order products, map their EDI transactions.

Global Standards Work

GS1 Physical Technical Requirements Group: AIDC specifications; maintain the GS1 General Specifications (Voting Member).

Global Product Classification Work Group (Chair)

GS1 Healthcare GTIN Allocation Rules Standard (Voting Member)

Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) Management Standard (Voting Member)

Package Measurement Rules Work Group (Voting Member)

North American Standards Work

VICS EDI Standards Maintenance Committee (Voting Member)

ANSI X12 for EDI (Participant)

ANSI MH10.8 – Material Handling, specifically the Serial Shipping Container Label (Secretary)

Work Experience

Nestle Health Science – Business Ops Process Improvement, SAP Master Data and Contract Compliance

Target – Senior Process Analyst, End-to-End SAP Item Master Data

Polaris – Interactive Portfolio Manager, Mobile Interactive Applications for Polaris Riders

Best Buy – Program Manager, Global Merchandising & Operations, Implement the first widely used QR shelf tag application in retail; SAP Master Data

EC Workshops LLC – Owner, Education in Technologies including EDI, RFID, Supply Chain, Vendor Compliance and Global Data Synchronization.

Advisory Board Participation

PC Expo in New York;

Gateway Technical College PC Curriculum Committee;

UW-Whitewater EC Focus Group

Chick-Fil-A, Securing the Food Supply Chain

UW- Madison eBusiness Forum

Awards:

UCC’s Achievement Award for Outstanding EDI Industry Contributions: “As a result of her professionalism, dedication and integrity…this award publicly recognizes her involvement and commitment to the Voluntary Inter-Industry Communications Standards EDI Community.”

UCC Outstanding Service Recognition: for VICS EDI Standards Maintenance Committee work.

AIDC 100 Vice President: AIDC 100 is a not-for-profit, self-sustaining, non-political, international organization of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) professionals and others who have significantly contributed to the growth and advancement of the industry.

Chairman’s Innovation Award: Best Buy annually recognizes a team for innovative implementations. This was for deploying QR codes in the stores and marketing collateral.

Don Percival Award presented annually to an individual or organization from the user community recognizing outstanding contributions to the application of automatic identification and data capture technologies.

George Goldberg

1925-2003

Co-Founder of AIDC 100 George Goldberg, former editor and publisher of SCAN Newsletter, died on December 10, 2003 at North Shore Hospital in Manhasset, LI from cardiac arrest due to complications from pneumonia. George was born on March 19, 1925 in Harlem, New York City, the second son of a retail salesman of fabric for women’s dresses. Both his parents had been youngsters from Russia who spoke no English when they arrived in the U.S. by boat from Europe, via Ellis Island, just after the turn of the century. Their poor families had settled in Brooklyn in search of the American dream. George graduated from Lafayette High School in Brooklyn in January 1942, two months short of his 17th birthday and one month after Pearl Harbor. After completing a year at City College of NY, he was drafted in May 1943, after he turned 18. He trained for half-a-year in the Army Air Corps to be an officer/navigator, but, after the Battle of the Bulge, he was transferred to the regular Army and served in France and Germany for 14 months as a private in the headquarters unit of the Seventh Army, 63rd Division, 253rd Regiment. After the war, he graduated from City College of NY in 1948, majoring in statistics, and then received a Masters in business administration from NYU two years later. His first job, in Manhattan, was project leader for three years with a market research agency specializing in surveys of young people. His next position, also in NYC, was as chief statistician for a newly-formed Department of Defense joint procurement agency. In 1954, he joined a diversified American Stock Exchange-listed company, Kleer Vu Industries, headquartered in Manhattan, which manufactured and marketed plastic products and microfilm equipment. He was with the firm for 18 years, serving as general manager, executive vice president, and then president/CEO. In 1975, George and his wife, Teddy, co-founded their own company, GGX Associates, Inc., devoted to products for the just-emerging automatic identification/data capture (AIDC) industry. GGX, based in Great Neck, NY became one of the leading marketers of film masters and pressure sensitive labels for UPC and other bar code applications. The company was sold in 1992. There were no publications in the mid-1970’s covering the fledgling AIDC industry. To fill this need, George began publishing SCAN Newsletter in September 1977 – at first with fewer than 100 subscribers. At that time, auto ID simply involved bar coding; and bar coding was almost exclusively supermarket checkout scanning. Over the next two decades, the industry grew to include many ADC-related technologies with worldwide applications in retailing, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, healthcare, communications, and federal and local government operations. SCAN was a unique management and marketing newsletter covering worldwide developments in bar coding, radio frequency (RFID and RFDC), and related AIDC technologies. In 1982, SCAN established the prestigious, annual Percival Award recognizing special contributions to AIDC by individuals or organizations from the user community. When SCAN Newsletter was sold to Corry Publishing in 1996, it had paid subscribers in twenty-six countries. George remained Contributing Editor of SCAN: The DATA CAPTURE Report. George conducted seminars on bar coding in the US, Canada, Europe, Russia, and China; he was the technical advisor to the book publishing industry committee on bar coding; he served as a member of the ANSI committees which established standards for package marking; he has written articles on AIDC for numerous publications. He was particularly proud of his most recent achievement as a co-founder of AIDC 100, an organization of the leading professionals from the AIDC industry. Under his leadership and guidance, the Melville Library at the State University of New York at Stony Brook has established a Special Collection for the AIDC 100 Industry archive. George is survived by his wife of 55 years and longtime business partner, Teddy. They had two sons and a daughter. Jeff, 53, is an author and TV producer in Washington, DC; Robbi, 49, is an artist in E. Moriches, LI; David, 42, is a music composer, who lives with his wife Nanci in Port Washington, NY and George’s baby grandson, Jonathan.

Alfonso Gutierrez

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
College of Engineering, 4158a Mechanical Engineering
1513 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706

608-695-6683(m)
608-262-5690(o)
alfonso.gutierrez@uwebc.wisc.edu

Director, University of Wisconsin RFID Lab Director Research & Education, UW E-Business Consortium A. Prior Employment 1994-2001 Accenture, Buenos Aires, Argentina – Detroit, MI o Associate Partner 1989-1993 Grant Thornton, Madison, WI o Consulting Manager 1979-1988 Andersen Consulting, Bogotá, Colombia o Consulting Manager B. Selected Publications 1. Davis, R., Geiger, B., Gutierrez, A., Heaser, J., Veeramani, R. Vein-to-Vein Tracking of Blood Products using RFID: A Comprehensive Development Approach, accepted for publication in Vox Sanguinis. 2. Davis, R., Gottschall, J., Gutierrez, A., Hohberger, C., and Veeramani, D., Impact of RF Energy on Red Blood Cells and Platelets, Technical Report, UW RFID Lab, 2008 (Also submitted to Transfusion journal, November 2008). 3. Bapat, V., Somogyi, A., Gutierrez, A., and Veeramani, D., On the radio – RFID moves upstream from supply chain and into heart of manufacturing operations, InTech, June 2006 (This paper received the Keith Otto Award for the best article published in InTech.) 4. Gutierrez, A., Anderson Jason, Passive RFID Tags for Parking Ramp Access Prototype, Report published by UW RFID Lab, 2006 5. Gutierrez, A., Bredemus, A., Braithwait, C., Wagman, M., Stace Naughton, A., and Veeramani, D., RFID Applications in Hospitals, Report published by UW RFID Lab, 2005. 6. Gutierrez, A., Bredemus, A., Braithwait, C., Oh, C., Wagman, M., Raychaudhuri, S., Poundari, S., and Veeramani, D., Passive RFID Tags for Parking Ramp Access- Assessment, Report published by UW RFID Lab, 2005. 7. Gutierrez, A., Tang, J. and Veeramani, D., Pacific Cycle RFID Implementation Anticipated benefits analysis, Report published by UW E-Business Consortium, 2004. 8. Gutierrez, A., Flanner, B. and Veeramani, D., RFID Business Opportunity Assessment and Business Case Development, Report published by UW E-Business Consortium, 2003. 9. Gutierrez, A., Gadani, M. Rockwell Automation Distributors Collaboration Improvement Initiative, Report published by UW E-Business Consortium, 2003. 10. Gutierrez, A., Bubbers, J., Ghimire, S., Vickroy, C. e-Procurement Readiness and Value Assessment, Report published by UW E-Business Consortium, 2003. C. Selected Ongoing and Recently Completed Projects ” Blood Centers RFID Consortium (USA): RFID Technology Application Assessment in Blood Transfusion supply chain Lead researcher for investigating the potential use and performance of passive RFID technology for blood products identification and tracking. This project involved blood center and hospital process review and re-engineering in light of the new technology-enabled capabilities, experimentation in the UW RFID Lab to determine level of performance in routine blood center activities and the effects on blood products by radiation from the RFID devices. Project also examined the potential financial and safety impact of RFID on the overall blood transfusion supply chain and delivery processes. ” NIH STTR Phase 1: RFID in Blood Products Supply Chain Researching and developing a comprehensive RFID-enabled solution for tracking blood products across the entire transfusion medicine supply chain and enhance productivity and patient safety in transfusion medicine processes. ” HealthCare Collaborative on RFID (Madison, Milwaukee, WI): Mobile Asset Tracking – RFID Technology Application Assessment and prototype Lead researcher for investigating the practical use of Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) for tracking critical mobile medical equipment in a hospital environment, based on three participant hospitals. This project involves the equipment service delivery process re-engineering design, evaluation and selection of market-ready Asset Tracking solutions, design and execution of testing scenarios for a prototype operating model and the overall impact analysis (organization, financial and efficiency) of the new model. ” UW Transportation (Madison, WI): Performance Assessment of Passive Tags for Transportation Parking Ramp Application Lead researcher for investigating the use of passive RFID tags for vehicle identification and authorization for entry into parking ramps. The findings from the technology feasibility assessment stage and prototype development of the project are currently being piloted. ” UW Hospital and Clinics (Madison, WI): RFID Technology Application Assessment in Hospitals Lead researcher for investigating the potential use and performance of RFID technology (especially passive tags) for hospital in-patient identification and tracking. This project involved experimentation with passive RFID tags in the UW RFID Lab to determine potential challenges with RFID tag performance and ways to overcome them. Project also examined the potential impact of RFID on the patient discharge process. ” CNH Case New Holland (Racine, WI): RFID Business Opportunity Assessment and Business Case Development. Lead researcher for assisting this global Agricultural and Industrial equipment manufacturer in developing a RFID application strategy for CNH Global Supply Chain. This project involved Supply Chain process mapping and analysis, improvement opportunity valuation and technology application feasibility analysis. CNH benefited from our assistance by delivering a business case for executive decision on further direction with this technology and defining a comprehensive strategy for piloting and deployment of this new technology in the Supply Chain processes. ” Pacific Cycle (Madison, WI): RFID Implementation Anticipated benefits analysis Lead researcher for assisting Pacific Cycle management in assessing the impact of RFID-enabled operational improvements. Research scope included: Stock availability analysis at Wal*Mart stores (Out-of-stock & Back-room stock), Main warehousing process analysis (Receiving, Picking, Packing, Shipping, Inventory accuracy analysis), Cycle counting cost reduction, Wal*Mart charge back transaction analysis ” NewPage Specialty Papers (formerly Stora Enso, Wisconsin Rapids, WI): Analyzing Impact of Substrate of RFID Tag Performance Research scope included evaluation of how RFID tag performance can be enhanced by properties of the substrate material. This resulted in the company introducing into the market a specialty paper for RFID. ” Appleton Papers (Appleton, WI): Analysis of RFID Tag Failures Research scope included analyzing the modes of failure of RFID tags (e.g., due to electrostatic discharge and mechanical damage). ” Sun Chemical (Parsippany, NJ): Performance Analysis of Conductive Ink Printed RFID Tags Sun Chemical is the worlds largest manufacturer of printing inks and coatings. Research scope included RF radiation pattern measurement and characterization, and readability performance assessment of RFID tags with conductive ink printed antenna. ” UW RFID Industry Workgroup: Industry collaboration for RFID adoption facilitation. Workgroup facilitator working with company participants in developing methodologies and tools for business opportunity assessment and business case templates for RFID implementation. This RFID workgroup consists of potential users, technology developers and UW researchers to collaboratively investigate key questions and issues of common interest to the group in an objective, structured and rigorous manner. The specific activities of the workgroup are defined by the group members and executed in a manner that leverages resources and knowledge across multiple companies. The scope of activities can include controlled experimentation and pilots with RF technologies in laboratories/test beds and field tests using realistic application scenarios.

Alan Haberman

July 27, 1929 – June 12

from the New York Times… Alan Haberman, who ushered In the Bar Code, dies at 81 On a summer morning in 1974, a man in Ohio bought a package of chewing gum and the whole world changed. At 8:01 a.m. on June 26 of that year, a 10-pack of Wrigleys Juicy Fruit gum slid down a conveyor belt and past an optical scanner. The scanner beeped, and the cash register understood, faithfully ringing up 67 cents. That purchase, at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, was the first anywhere to be rung up using a bar code. Today, trillions of beeps later, what was once a novel technology with uncertain prospects is so widespread as to be almost invisible. It informs nearly every aspect of modern life, providing a means for people to buy and sell things, couriers to track packages and airlines to locate (in principle, anyway) lost luggage. This transformation, industry experts say, is largely because of the work of one person, a supermarket executive from Massachusetts named Alan L. Haberman, who died on Sunday at 81. Mr. Haberman did not invent the universal product code, or U.P.C., as the most prevalent type of bar code is formally known. But it is to him that its sheer black-and-white ubiquity and familiar graphic form are primarily owed. His death, in Newton, Mass., was of complications of heart and lung disease, his family said. Born of an effort to modernize the grocery industry, the U.P.C. standardized the way consumer product information is represented in the electronic age. It has spread to every corner of human endeavor, creating an unlikely global family of bar-coded bedfellows that includes bran flakes and books and bananas, bus tickets, babies and bees. Tens of millions of different objects have acquired bar codes over the years; each day, more than five billion of the codes are scanned in retail establishments worldwide, according to GS1 US, the nonprofit organization based in Lawrenceville, N.J., that issues and administers the codes. Mr. Haberman led the industry committee that chose the bar code over other contenders circles, bulls-eyes and seemingly random agglomerations of dots in 1973. By all accounts, he spent years afterward cajoling manufacturers, retailers and the public to accept the strange new symbol, which resembles a highly if irregularly compacted zebra. His efforts helped cement the marriage between the age-old practice of commerce and the new world of information technology. Alan Lloyd Haberman was born in Worcester, Mass., on July 27, 1929. He earned a bachelors degree in American history and literature from Harvard in 1951 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1953. After a brief career on Wall Street as a stock analyst, he joined Hills Supermarkets, a Long Island chain, as executive vice president. In the mid-1960s, after a merger with E. J. Korvette, the discount retailer, Mr. Haberman was named president of Hills-Korvette Supermarkets. He was later the chief executive of Finast, a Massachusetts-based supermarket chain. The bar code dates back to the 1940s, when two graduate students at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver, developed it for use in grocery stores. They received a patent in 1952, but because scanning technology was poor then, their invention went largely unused. Over the next two decades, some manufacturers and retailers put their own product coding systems in place, but one companys system was usually unintelligible to anothers. As Stephen A. Brown, the author of Revolution at the Checkout Counter, a history of the bar code, explained in a telephone interview, The grocery product manufacturers Kelloggs, General Mills, people like that they were terrified at the thought that they would soon be facing conflicting demands from their customers: that Safeway would ask them to put on a symbol that was a semicircle, that Kroger would ask them to put on a symbol that was a square, and so on. Mr. Brown, a former general counsel to the Grocery Manufacturers of America and later to the Uniform Code Council, as GS1 US was previously known, was present during the bar-code selection process. By the early 1970s, amid rising inflation, supermarkets wanted to cut labor costs by automating the ways their wares were stocked, inventoried and rung up. A committee of executives was convened, with Mr. Haberman as its chairman, to choose a standard symbol that could be used nationwide to encode product data electronically. By this time the Woodland-Silver patent had lapsed, and the committee examined submissions from more than a dozen technology companies. As Mr. Brown recalled, Mr. Haberman soon came to favor a design of black-and-white vertical bars, created by George J. Laurer of I.B.M. and inspired by the Woodland-Silver model. The design would print crisply, which meant scanners could read it clearly. Through its varying patterns of thick and thin bars, it could efficiently represent the 11 digits needed to encode data about manufacturer and product. (Today, U.P.C. codes typically have 12 digits.) Mr. Habermans committee comprised more than half a dozen type-A businessmen, and discussion could be fractious. At one meeting, in San Francisco in the early 1970s, as Mr. Browns book reports, Mr. Haberman found a spectacularly good way to smooth dissent. First he organized a dinner at one of the citys finest restaurants. Then he took everyone to a local movie theater to see Deep Throat. Not long afterward, the committee voted unanimously for the I.B.M. bar code, adopted in April 1973. Mr. Haberman, who lived in Natick, Mass., is survived by his wife, the former Natalie Diamond; two children, Arthur Haberman and Jeanette Gannon; two sisters, Elaine Feldman and Arnalee Cohen; and five grandchildren. A daughter, Nan Haberman, died before him, as did a grandson. As a founder and longtime board member of the Uniform Code Council, Mr. Haberman was for decades an ambassador for automated product identification in all its forms, from the bar code to newer technologies like radio frequency identification, now used by some retailers. Go back to Genesis and read about the Creation, he told The Boston Globe in 2004. God says, I will call the night night; I will call the heavens heaven. Naming was important. Then the Tower of Babel came along and messed everything up. In effect, the U.P.C. has put everything back into one language, a kind of Esperanto, that works for everyone. That language is everywhere. At hospitals throughout the world, newborns are identified by means of bar codes on bracelets. Marathon runners take to the streets, bar codes on chests. Scientists tracking the movements of honeybees have glued tiny bar codes onto their backs. In recent years, the new generation of two-dimensional, cellphone-scannable bar codes heirs of the U.P.C. code has let consumers track the lowest price of a favorite product or scan a real estate sign to see photos of a house for sale. And today, in Washington, somewhere in the bowels of the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of American History, lies a 37-year-old, bar-coded package of Juicy Fruit gum. Part of the museums permanent collection, it is an unassailable, if by now unchewable, piece of the national past.

Craig Harmon

Craig Kenneth Harmon, 67, suffered a sudden heart attack at his home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, July 3, 2014 and was declared deceased at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids. Visitation is scheduled on Wednesday, July 9 from 5:00 7:00 p.m. at Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home, 1825 W. 12th Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613. The funeral will also be held there at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 10. Burial with military honors will follow at Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens north of Cedar Falls, on Waverly Road. Memorials may be directed to the family in care of Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home. Craig will be missed very much by his family. Surviving are his wife, Marsha; two children, Suzanne (James) Stenson OBrien, Minneapolis, MN and Matthew (Natascha) Harmon, Minneapolis, MN; one step-daughter, Kari (Curt) Rozeboom, Pt. Byron, IL; his father, C. Kenneth Harmon, Crystal, MN; a sister, Konni (Steve) Finical, Golden Valley, MN; and five grandchildren, Axel Stenson, Bradley Litz, Jr., Emma OBrien, Noah Rozeboom and Sydni Rozeboom. Craig was preceded in death by his mother Helene Van Mill Harmon and an infant son Jon Harmon. Craig attended Kingsley Elementary School in Waterloo, Cedar Heights Elementary in Cedar Falls, and then Peet Junior High and Cedar Falls High School (class of 1965). He married Jacklyn Breithaupt of Cedar Falls in October 1963. They were later divorced. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1965, and was assigned to the Key Largo radar station in Florida. He proceeded to Fort Monmouth, NJ for an AT&T school for the Signal Corps, a communication link between Vietnam and Washington, DC. He was later assigned to Phu Lam in Vietnam, and served a total of three years with an Honorable Discharge in 1968 as Corporal in the United States Army. He attended the University of Iowa where he received a Bachelors of Business Administration in economics and international relations, and married Jane Ihry of Royal, Iowa. They were also later divorced. Craig was a visionary and pioneer in technology, first at Northwestern Bell inventing the first 2400 Baud Modem, and later, with Norand Corporation in Cedar Rapids. In 1981, he founded Q.E.D. Systems, a consulting firm providing education and standards development for automatic identification technologies such as bar codes (found on packages), two-dimensional symbols such as the QR code and PDF 417 (found on drivers licenses), radio frequency identification (RFID) and real time locating systems (RTLS). He wrote several books, articles, and papers on the various technologies. Most notably, he was the author of Reading Between The Lines An Introduction to Bar Code Technology. More copies of the text have been sold than any other book relating to bar code technology. Craig was the recognized leader of numerous standards organizations, the founder of JTC 1/SC 31, he chaired numerous committees, founded many groups, served as a subject matter expert and expert witness, helped develop the Federal Express package tracking system. He was a well-known speaker and enjoyed traveling the world while developing international technology standards, and giving educational presentations for members of the industry he loved. His most recent foray was to harmonize the The Internet of Things, the accelerating development of connected information systems that work together in our physical world, like info systems for cars, refrigerators, home utility systems, watches, etc. Craig will be missed throughout the industry and by his many friends and colleagues worldwide.

Marsha Harmon

Q.E.D. SYSTEMS
3963 Highlands Lane, SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52403

319-364-0212
319-533-3663 (m)
marsha.harmon@qed.org

Since 1990, Marsha A. Harmon has served as the vice-president of QED Systems, an organization providing standards development, as well as educational, advisory, and systems design services; focusing primarily on electronic commerce/business technologies, including the disciplines of bar code technology, two-dimensional symbols, electronic data interchange (EDI), radio-frequency communications, radio-frequency identification and real time locating systems. EXPERTISE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS ” Project Coordinator to the 1999-2000 United States Department of Defense AHRIST (Hazardous Material Tracking) Project. ” Active participant in the development of the United States Department of Defense AHRIST (Hazardous Material Tracking) Test Plan. ” Project Coordinator for the 1994 AIAG 2D Symbology Project to select two-dimensional symbologies for use in the North American Automotive Industry. ” Project Coordinator for the QR Code revision of the AIAG B-13 White Paper on Two-dimensional Symbologies. ” Secretary and active Committee Member to the Automotive Industry Action Group’s (AIAG) Logistics Project Team, Automatic Identification Data Collection (AIDC) Work Group and 2D Direct Part Marking Sub-Committee (AI2D) developing the AIAG standards for Shipping Labels, Product Identification, and Two-Dimensional (2D) symbologies. ” Secretary, document coordinator and active Committee Member of the U.S. Delegation to the Global Transport Label Committee developing a worldwide standard for an automotive Shipping Label. ” Recipient of the AIAG Outstanding Achievement Award in 2001 and 2002. ” Secretary and Project Editor of INCITS T20 committee currently developing a standard for Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS). ” Editor, A White Paper on Two-Dimensional Symbols, published by Vision Systems – 1996. This white paper is the most authoritative discussion of two-dimensional symbols, their applications, and how to select symbols for various applications. ” U.S. Expert to ISO TC 104 developing international RF tag standards for Freight Containers and Container Seals. ” Active Member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) ASC MH 10/SC 8 developing U.S. national standardization of machine-readable media on transport units. ANSI MH10 is the U.S. TAG to TC 122 for work including bar codes, two-dimensional symbols, and RF tags for unit loads and transport packages. ” Active Member of ANSI MH10.8.2 Data Application Identifier Standard, developing and maintaining worldwide standardization for data element identification, information technology and terminology. ” U.S. Expert to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 Automatic Data Capture Subcommittee developing a single JTC 1 subcommittee home for international automatic data collection standards. ” U.S. Expert to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 4 developing international standardization of RF tags for Item Management. ” Active Member of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) developing U.S. positions on international automatic data collection standards. ” Active Member of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG), Task Group 4, developing U.S. positions on the international standardization of RF tags for Item Management.

Dr. Albert Heijn

1927 – 2011

Albert Heijn, who died in January 2011 at age 83, played a key role in turning his family’s Dutch grocery chain into the international food retailing group Royal Ahold, which owns more than 3,000 supermarkets in Europe and the US. He also pioneered many features of modern supermarkets, such as standardised barcodes and own brands. Ahold, which includes such American chains as Bi-Lo, Giant Food Stores and Stop & Shop, had revenues of more than 29bn ($39bn) in 2010. The original family company founded in 1887 by Heijn’s grandfather — also called Albert — is the Dutch equivalent of Britains Tesco or Sainsbury, with more than 800 stores. Nicknamed Appie by the Dutch, it is credited with introducing many customers to exotic foods and ready-made meals. Heijn was among the first supermarket bosses to introduce sell-by dates, organic and other private label products as well as bonus or club cards and the machine-readable barcode system at check-outs. In the early 1970s, he was a driving force behind the international barcode standard used in most countries today. He and his younger brother, Gerrit Jan Heijn, oversaw the family companys expansion until Gerrit was kidnapped and murdered in 1987 in spite of payment of an undisclosed ransom. Heijn retired two years after his brothers death but rather than Monte Carlo or the Dutch Caribbean, he settled in a castellated mid-19th century mansion outside the sleepy English village of Pudleston, Herefordshire, on an estate dotted with ornamental lakes and a herd of imported alpacas. He and his fourth wife, Monique Everwijn Lange, whom he married in 1992, became philanthropists in the local community. He set up a company, Eign Enterprise based on the way English neighbours pronounced his name which created what became known as the Left Bank village, a complex of shops, bars, restaurants and a conference centre on the banks of the river Wye. Described as a little corner of England that is forever Holland, the village brought vibrancy to the area for a while but ultimately proved unprofitable and was sold. Born in Zaandam in the Netherlands in 1927, the young Albert was diagnosed with polio while still at school and spent his latter years in a wheelchair. He studied economics at the University of Amsterdam before graduating from the Nyenrode School of Business, now Nyenrode Business University, and joined the family business. His training included stints with the Swiss Migros chain in Zurich and with Pearks and Maypole in London. He introduced Heijn supermarkets magazine, AllerHande, which today has a monthly circulation of more than 2m. He became chief executive of Albert Heijn in 1962, and of the parent company Ahold in 1973. His motto was: You dont sell on behalf of your suppliers you buy on behalf of your customers. I want my customers to feel fun, convenience and trust. When he retired, he donated a statue that stands outside the companys headquarters. Depicting a customer carrying shopping bags, the statue, nicknamed Beppie by the Dutch, bears the inscription: Lest we forget for whom we work. I may be a born businessman, but I still feel more empathy for the shopper than for businesses who are only concerned with their stock price and their latest takeover bid, Mr Heijn said in an interview. Im proud that my passport lists my profession as grocer. Its one of the finest professions in the world. He is survived by his wife Monique and his son Albert from his first marriage to Herma Schipper. from The Financial Times Limited 2011.

Fred Heiman

1939-2020

Fred was an engineer and physicist, who helped develop several technologies that are now a part of everyday life. Over Fred’s 35-year career, he won numerous awards, and held over 50 patents. His life was filled with extraordinary richness of family, friends, travel and adventure, projects and inventions, sports cars, music and wildlife.

Fred was born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Fred’s first love was music, and he became a proficient trumpet player in his youth, playing gigs at weddings, bar mitzvahs and jazz clubs. The thrill of jam sessions soon gave way to the exhilaration of scientific discovery as he turned to science and technology, graduating summa cum laude from City College of New York with an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering.

In 1962, while pursuing his PhD in solid-state physics from Princeton University, and working at RCA Laboratories, Fred was the co-inventor of the first working MOS integrated circuit, incorporating 16 transistors.

After leaving RCA Fred became the head of Mars Electronics, a division of the Mars Candy Company. His team at Mars developed the first fully electronic coin mechanism for use in vending machines.

While working at Symbol Technologies in the early 1990’s Fred led a team to create one of the first mobile handheld computers – complete with operating system, applications, wireless connectivity and a built-in bar code scanner. It was called the “integrated scanning terminal,” and was a precursor to smart phones, which would be introduced 15 years later. At this time, Fred became a prominent figure in the creation of the 802.11 IEEE standard for LAN communications, later known as Wi-Fi. Fred and Symbol wrote the first Wi-Fi specification, developed the first Wi-Fi chips and released the first products. He retired from Symbol in 1999.

Fred met and married Peggy, the love of his life, in Philadelphia and they embarked on their life of adventure. In 1983 they moved to California, where both worked at Intel Corporation. Life in California led to a love of scuba diving and underwater videography. Fred and Peggy traveled the world in search of sea creatures large and small. Fred garnered recognition from the international underwater photography community, including the Stan Waterman Award for Excellence in Underwater Videography. Fred developed a passion for wildlife, ultimately traveling to over 60 countries to film and photograph most of the major animal species in their natural habitats. Fred’s YouTube channel includes many of his wildlife and underwater films, with “Lions of the Kalahari” (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=_ISjOqSUp68) garnering over 1.2 million views.

Music never left his life, and it was opera that fueled his passion in the couple’s retirement years. Fred and Peggy used their skills to film every opera produced by Opera San José to create promotional videos and commercials. Fred served as Vice President of the Board of Trustees, as well as Chair of the Long-Range Planning Committee.

Woodworking became Fred’s other passion during his retirement. He challenged himself, using his love of art and technology to design and build intricate, original pieces, which fill the homes of his beloved family.

Fred was first and foremost, the patriarch and leader of his extended family. He led by example, with kindness, generosity, warmth and compassion. Graced with many talents and a wellspring of love, Fred leaves behind a beautiful legacy of technological innovations, wood sculptures, wildlife videos and records of annual family get-togethers.

He will be greatly missed by his loving wife Peggy and their children; Susan Fitzgerald (Mike), Lynn Newman (George), Rachel Heiman, Mitchell Levy (Alex), Stuart Levy (Christine), Lauren Skye (Eric) and his grandchildren, Claire (Christopher), Lily, Duncan, Sophie, Willa, Taylor, Madison and Ethan.

Leadership Council

John Hill

ST. ONGE COMPANY
835 Woodside Drive, Watsonville, CA 95076

831-722-9806
jhill835@gmail.com

Currently a director of the St. Onge Company and a former COO/CEO and officer of automatic data collection, material handling and supply chain execution systems firms with over 100 successful AIDC (bar code, RFDC & RFID), warehouse equipment and warehouse (WMS) and transportation management (TMS) systems installations. Has led consulting engagements including the analysis of requirements, development of specifications, supplier selection, training and coordination of material handling, data collection and warehouse/transportation management system implementations for Armstrong World Industries, Brighton-Best, Coca-Cola, Commonwealth Aluminum, CSX Corporation, Emery Worldwide, Ford Motor Company, Fresh & Easy (Tesco) Fresh Express/ Chiquita Brands, Freightliner, General Electric, General Motors, the Gillette Company (P & G), Inland Steel, J. M. Schneider Inc., the Keebler Company, Litton Industries, Lockheed, MasterTag, Menlo Logistics, Owens & Minor, Pepsi Bottling Group, Rhodia, RJ Reynolds Packaging, Schurman Fine Papers, Thomas & Betts, UCSF, Waremart and many others. Co-founder of the Automatic Identification Manufacturers (AIM) Trade Association. Former president of the Material Handling Education Foundation, Inc. and the Material Handling Institute, Inc. Member of the Board of Governors of the Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA). Co-founder of MHIAs Supply Chain Execution Systems & Technologies and Integrated Systems & Controls groups. Member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and the Warehouse Education & Research Council (WERC). Began career with 3M Company and serves(d) on the boards of several industry and high technology firms including Computer Identics, DataMax, ESYNC, MEKontrol, Source Technologies and TrueDemand. Recipient of the 1997 Norman L. Cahners and 2004 Reed-Apple awards for contributions to the U.S. material handling industry. Inductee into Modern Material Handling magazine’s 20th Century material handling Hall of Fame. Named to DC Velocity magazines roster of Logistics Rainmakers and World Trade magazines Fabulous 50. Widely published in trade and professional journals in the U. S. and overseas. Over 350 seminars and presentations for academia, corporate clients, trade and professional societies in North and Latin America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Faculty member of The Supply Chain & Logistics Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology. The St. Onge Company is a global engineering and consulting firm focused upon supply chain infrastructure and network optimization, warehouse and handling systems design and requirements definition, selection and implementation of warehouse, labor and transportation management technology and systems.

Treasurer

Jack Householder

JWH ENTERPRISES
214 Cassandra Drive, Chalfont, PA 18914

215-327-9556 (m)
jwhouse@comcast.net

For more than 35 years, Jack has diligently served the AutoID industry. He entered AutoID Industry in 1969 as a Project Engineer responsible for the development of a NCR Thermal Transfer Color Bar Code Printer. As a result of his effort, three patent applications were filed including: thick film print head design approach and flexographic Black / Green Transfer Ribbon. Jack has extensive experience in both the domestic and international markets in marketing, sales and product management positions. Currently he is the founder and Principal of JWH Enterprises. Previously he served as Vice President International Sales at Accu-Sort after a long career at NCR and Spectra Physics. Jack Householder has been heavily involved in the proliferation of the AI industry including: –Spent over one year developing a Black/Gray/White Bar Code. –1984 1985 SADF South African Defense Force (SADF) (DoD equivalent) –Served as advisor/consultant to this organization and, as a direct result, a similar standard to the DoD MIL 1189 was issued in 1986 for the SADF. — 1993 1994 AIM Representative for Spectra Physics Eugene, OR. — Active Scanner Committee Member attended all meetings during that period. — 1994 2002 AIM Representative for Accu-Sort Systems, Inc. — Chairman of IAG (International Advisory Group) for two years. –Pro-Active IAG Committee Member attended all meetings during that period. –2002 2003 BISG (Book Industry Study Group) –Pro-Active DEIG (Distribution Executive Industry Group) / MRC Standards Committee defining worldwide Bar Code Book Standards. –Introduced Harry Burke to Bar Coding in 1976 while serving as Director, Product Management for NCRs Data Pathing Division which focused on automatic data collection for the industrial world. –Developed and presented AutoID papers at numerous conferences including: — 1983 NCR Users Conference Denver. –1984 South African Production and Inventory Control Society (SAPICS) seminars in Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria. –1984 SAPICS chapter meeting Port Elizabeth. (Chaired all AutoID sessions.) — 1985 SAPICS annual exhibition and conference – Durban. (Chaired all AutoID sessions.) –1986 SAPICS annual exhibition and conference Swaziland. (Chaired all AutoID sessions.) –1991 OFFICE 2000 seminars in Sydney, Hong Kong and, Taipei. –1992 OFFICE 2000 seminars in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Seoul. –1994 South African 2D Bar Code seminar series in Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria. — 1995 EAN conference and exhibition in Manila. — 1996 CANADIAN Users conference in Toronto. –1997 AIM IAG annual meeting India market overview. –1997 AIM IAG annual meeting South African market overview. –1998 AIM IAG annual meeting China market overview. –1999 SCANTECH Argentina in Buenos Aires. — 2000 MOVIMAT exhibition and conference in Sao Paulo. –2003 BISG annual meeting in New York City. EDUCATION: BSEE, Ohio State; MSEE, Marquette, MBA, Wright State; CPIM, APICS

Robert Hussey

HAND HELD PRODUCTS
9680 Old Bailes Rd, Fort Mill, SC 29707

980-210-6498
robert.m.hussey@gmail.com

Rob Hussey, Director of Imaging Technology at Hand Held Products. is an accomplished industry executive and, as an expert on bar code symbologies, industry application standards and imaging reader technology, a driving force the adoption of two-dimensional (2D) symbologies and adherence to industry standards. Since joining the industry and Hand Held Products in May of 1991 Rob has held a number of Technical Contributor, Engineering, Program & Product Management and Image Technology positions prior to his most recent promotion Director of Image Technology. Rob has received 35 U.S. patents, many for pioneering work in the development of imaging technology and 2D bar codes. His first major project was the development of a PDF417 reader, the industrys second such device. His work in the area of fast Reed-Solomon decoding led to the industrys lowest-cost 2D reader. As an active participant on the ANSI MH10 SC 8, CEA R9 (formerly EIA) and HIBCC Auto-ID Technical Committee (AITC) committees as well as a member of ADC1 TAG, Rob has helped define the industrys first 2D bar code standards, the basis for application standards in a variety of industries: material handling, electronics, automotive, telecommunications, and the Department of Defense. More recently he has been working to bring 2D bar code technology to the healthcare market. Rob is a leader in the industry move toward 2D bar code technology and standards. In his outward-facing role at Hand Held Products, he has been instrumental in convincing the healthcare industry that 2D bar codes can play a key role in patient identification and other error reduction initiatives. In his inward-facing role, he has led the development of image readers that can read every type of bar code with ease. Rob has many successful implementations under his belt. For example, he single-handedly altered Mount Desert Island (MDI) Hospitals data collection approach in 2004, when the hospital decided to invest in a new healthcare information system, including capability to implement a bar code-based patient safety system. Working in conjunction with MDI Hospitals IT department, Rob designed a transparent solution to retrofit their system with Aztec Code wristbands and 2D readers. This new 2D system was intended to overcome the limitations of the original linear bar code and laser scanner approach to patient ID. Rob has been responsible for many advancements in imaging technology since its inception. As the leader of Hand Held Products imaging team he is helping to advance the state of the art of this AIDC technology and its standardization, making him a deserving candidate for AIDC 100 membership. Rob received his BSEE from Clarkson University and a MSEE degree University of Virginia. Rob is the 2007 recipient of AIM Globals Richard R. Dilling Award.

Daniel Kimball

SRA INTERNATIONAL
31 Corbridge Place, Port Townsend, WA 98368

703-577-8355
dan_kimball@sra.com

Mr. Kimball is employed by SRA International and under contract serves as the Lead Technical Advisor, DOD Logistics Automatic Identification Technology Office, US Transportation Command. He represents the Department of Defense at national and international standards meetings in an effort to increase the harmonization between commercial AIT standards and DOD policy. Mr. Kimball’s responsibilities include primary focal point for the standardization and technical integration of Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) within the Department of Defense. Mr. Kimball is an active member of the leadership of numerous national and international AIT standards organizations and currently chairs the ISO/IEC Working Group on RFID Security. He is also the Secretary of the international working group (ISO/IEC JTC 1, SC31, WG4, SG3) on RFID Air Interface, and serves as Project Editor for the international standard ISO/IEC 15423 Bar code scanner and decoder performance testing. In November 2008 he was appointed Chair of the US Technical Advisory Group to SC31. He has served as Co-Chair of the DOD Working Group for UID Business Rules. Mr. Kimball serves as Vice Chair of the DOD RFID Technical Working Group and is a founding member of the AIM Global RFID Experts Group. Internationally Mr. Kimball is a member of the U.S. delegations to ISO/IEC-JTC1-SC31 on automatic identification and data collection and an active participant in the six subordinate working groups. He also participates in international standardization work on aerospace part marking (ISO TC20/WG13), freight container identification and tracking (ISOTC104/SC4/WG2), Supply Chain Applications of RFID (ISO TC104/TC122 Joint Working Group) and Packaging (ISO TC 122). At the national level Mr. Kimball is a member of the Material Handling Industries of America Committee on automatic identification and serves as Vice Chair of Sub Group 8 on AIDC. In November 2008 he was appointed as Chairman of the US technical Advisory Group to ANSI dealing with SC31 matters. He currently serves on GS1 US, EPCglobal and AIM committees dealing with bar code and RFID technology issues. Mr. Kimball was a member of the former Industrial Commercial Advisory Committee, and the Shipping Container Marking and Labeling Committee and the Business Process Group (Item Identification) of the Uniform Code Council (UCC). Mr. Kimball is a member of the US delegation to the NATO Asset Tracking Working Group and is the author and custodian of the NATO Standardization Agreements on RFID and Unique Item Identification. Mr. Kimball has been instrumental in the drafting and writing of the AIT portions of MILSTD 130L and MILSTD 129P, and NATO Standardization Agreements on bar codes and shipping labels. For his work in ADIC standardization he was awarded the 2009 SRA Technical Achievement Award.

Robert Lamoreaux

1933-2010

Dr. Robert D. LaMoreaux, PhD, Lt, USNR, Supply Corps packed his sea bag and shipped out of this world on Monday evening September 20 in the same manner in which he lived his life, feisty and surrounded by loved ones. The official cause of death was heart failure and stroke, but his children believe it was a broken heart that never mended. He was finally ready to join his beloved wife Carole in Heaven. Born on July 31, 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio to Hilda and Dave (Mark David) LaMoreaux, Robert attended elementary school in Trenton, Michigan and High School in Eustis, Lake County, Florida, where he was one of the first Eagle Scouts in the area. Robert graduated from The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Commerce and received his MBA and PhD from Michigan State University. In addition, he obtained a PhD from Central California University. He served in the Navy, retiring officially from the Naval Reserve after 13 years. Robert worked for 25 years for General Motors and concurrently for Lansing Community College where he taught for 30 years. Upon retiring from Oldsmobile, he began working at the MSU School of Packaging, where he taught and ran seminars for 15 years. In total, Robert taught for nine different institutions of higher education. Despite these many jobs, Robert was always home for 6:00 dinner and available to attend all his children’s school events. Robert was recognized as a Barcode pioneer when he was elected an original member of the Automatic Identification Capture 100 Honorary Society. He gave numerous talks on barcode and automatic identification in this country and internationally. He wrote books on the subject and earned awards for writing standards in the field. In addition, he earned his Master Mechanic certificate and could fix anything on a car or in a house. His thriftiness in work, play and purchasing made him very innovative. A few years ago, Robert compiled his Bucket List and completed it last year. He was an avid traveler, having visited all 50 state capitals, the North Pole, and many countries in Europe, South America and the Caribbean. He took one of the last Concorde flights across the Atlantic. But by far, his greatest joy was his children and grandchildren. He regularly attended sports events, being the loudest rooter for Waverly teams and traveling to see his granddaughters play golf and volleyball and perform in plays. He was incredible at finding the adventure in everyday life whether it was planning capers to steal napkins from McDonalds, creating Camp GrandBob for his grandchildren or telling stories about his life on Pluto. Well known and admired for his extraordinary eyebrows, dating became his hobby several years after his wife’s death and he made many new friends this way. He kept track of his travels with the ladies and all of his dates on his beloved iPhone, never double-booking. He gave a yearly neighborhood barbecue, and hosted parties for families, international guests, and Irish Americans. Robert was predeceased by his wife, Carole Catherine Coyne, daughter Hilda, grandson Cristoffer Harris, his brother Duane, and Tom and Joyce Coyne. He is survived by his children and their spouses: Catherine and Lawrence Paone, Mary and Dan Browning, Coyne and Mark Harman, Rob and Danielle LaMoreaux, James and Bridget Wackerly, Carole and Hans Harris, and his housemate daughter, Rita. In addition to Cristoffer, he has eleven grandchildren: Anna and Laura Paone, Gwendolyn Browning, Chrysogonus and Michael Harman, Colin Hoard, Camille and Abigale LaMoreaux, Brittani, Hans and Carole Harris. He leaves behind his brothers and sisters-in-laws, David and Patti, Donald and Marlene, Douglas and Jenny, and Elizabeth; Cousins Harry and Betty Schmidt, Doris Siebert, and LaMoreaux and Coyne nieces and nephews. Despite claiming to hate animals, his special friends Leo, Catherine, Henry, Lola, and Buddy, will miss the treats he used to sneak them. The wake will be held at Tiffany Funeral Home, 3232 W. Saginaw, Lansing, Thursday September 23rd at 7pm with viewing from 5pm to 8pm and Friday September 24th 11am to 4pm, with family available 11am to 2pm. Friends may sign the online guestbook at www.tiffanyfuneralhome.com. The funeral Mass will be at 10:30am Saturday, September 25th at St. Gerard Parish, 4437 W. Willow Highway, Lansing. Interment will follow at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the LaMoreaux Harris Memorial Fund, which was established in memory of Carole LaMoreaux, Hilda LaMoreaux and Cristoffer Harris. The Fund makes contributions to local libraries in their names. Contributions may be sent to: LaMoreaux Harris Fund, P.O. Box 14005 Lansing, MI 48901-4005, or through lamoreauxharrismemorial.org.

Robert Leibrandt

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
UID Policy Office
3060 Defense Pentagon Room Washington, DC 20301

robert.leibrandt@osd.mil

Rob Leibrandt’s primary duties the Department of Defense include gaining support in both the International Standards and Industrial partner communities for Item Unique Identification (IUID). He leads policy formulation for Program Management, Engineering and Logistics Implementation of UID and is the procurement lead for Information Assurance. He is the champion for the adoption and implementation of International standards to uniquely identify, mark and register individual assets for use through life within DoD and the supplier community. Rob is the chair of Allied Committee 327, Working Group 5 which has proposed lifecycle management guidance for NATO implementation of UID of Items, consistent with NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 2290 titled “Unique Identification (UID) of Items”. He is the 2008 recipient of Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM) Global’s Don Percival Award and was awarded the US DoD Exceptional Civilian Service award for his success in gaining US implementation, International recognition and broad acceptance of US DoD required UID of Items. In 2009, Mr. Leibrandt received the Honorable Mention Award in the Asset Tracking category during the ID World People Award Ceremony. Rob is a 1986 graduate of the University of Missouri-Rolla where he earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering and holds a Masters in Business Administration. He also graduated from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 2001. Summary of AIDC Accomplishments STANDARDS NATO Committees Has presented AIDC, Information Exchange and IUID concepts to multiple NATO bodies including the Asset Tracking Working Group (ASTWG), Codification Board (AC/135) and Life Cycle Management Group (AC/327). Rob has served as the chair of the AC/327 UID Strategy Ad-hoc Group and is the proposed Chair of the AC/327 UID Strategy Working Group to evaluate and propose NATO policy for UID of Items. His efforts in direct support of the ASTWG contributed directly to the ratification of NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 2290 which defines UID of Items as an ISO 15459 and 15434 compliant Data Matrix Mark and supporting data management to ensure unique serialization of critical NATO and national assets. ISO/IEC SC31 Rob serves as the Office of the Secretary of Defense representative and has maintained the need for consistency of DoD requirements with ISO/IEC SC 31 standards to the greatest extent possible. This has resulted in fervent support for 15434 and 15459. He also serves as the formal liaison from SC31 to SC4. MIL-STD 130 – Rob is the primary advocate of Item Unique Identification (IUID) and for mandating AIDC for all item marking via MIL-STD 130L through 130N. His efforts have resulted in not only a fully defined requirement for minimum IUID marking using the ECC 200 Data Matrix , but specifically inclusion of a stated preference for all item marking to apply Machine Readable Identification (MRI) using the ECC 200 Data Matrix. To date nearly 2.5 million items marked to this standard with IUID have been delivered to the DoD on 5000 contracts from 1000 contractors. MIL-STD 129 Recognizing that items that are marked using MRI are often retained in their item, case or container until installation and that often this packaging could not be breached to confirm the item received is the unique item Rob realized that a solution was needed. The answer he saw was to embed the unique identification as identification marking in the existing PDF417 symbol, along with the data normally included in the linear (Code 39) identification bar codes, on the unit, intermediate and exterior containers, and pallets as part of the identification markings. This promotes greater use of the PDF 417, embeds the unique identification of the packaged items in the symbol and leverages existing infrastructure/processes to integrate the data. AIM TSC – Participated in the development and review of the Aim DPM Quality Guideline DPM-1-2006 and was one of the two primary proponents for a proposed 2-D Judge development project. ATA Spec 2000 Rob is the DoD representative responsible for ensuring initial and continuing compatibility of the US DoD IUID requirement with the Air Transport Association marking and business processes. His positive working relationship with the ATA, industry partners and service providers resulted in recognition of the US DoD IUID approach using ISO 15434 syntax as an equivalent to standard ATA marking. PROJECT SUPPORT DoD Support In his present position Rob has been involved in the support, funding and/or execution of approximately 25 DoD pilot projects that involved parts marking, Automatic Data Capture and Information Exchange demonstrating the value of AIDC, IUID and ISO 10303. AIDC Use Case Project Responsible for the establishment and facilitation of a project to evaluate 95 use-case scenarios for imaging device evaluation and distributing the resulting data to the industry and the detailed results to DoD program managers for their use in infrastructure decision making. PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATIONS Rob has published interviews and supported articles DoD Leaders including: Director, Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy; Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology; and Deputy Director Program Planning, Development and Implementation. In addition his articles have been published in the Defense AT&L Magazine, Program Manager Magazine, Defense Standardization Journal and others. He is a frequent speaker at corporate, industry and defense conferences and a strong advocate for expansion and utilization of AIDC including modification of long-held business practices that hinder the capture and exchange of product data. 2010 UPDATE As an update to the numbers – Rob has educated almost 10,000 and DoD contractors on 2D Data Matrix implementation and the benefits of Auto ID. He heads up the NATO Asset Tracking Committee with which he successfully won adoption of the 2D Data Matrix symbology and the components of the UID Policy as the basis for global adoption. His monthly newsletter now goes out to approximately 7,000 people.

Donald Martin

1924-2001

Donald Martin was a retired USAF Colonel who flew 25 B-17 missions over Europe in WW2 and also became the Director of Research & Taxation for the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW) based in Washington DC. About 1970 several national commodity line wholesaler associations including electrical, plumbing, industrial, and heating/air conditioning were each establishing a system to identify the manufacturer/suppliers to their respective commodity lines. It soon became apparent that companies such as GE and 3M, which sold many products in each of those cited commodity lines, would have a different ID in each. Thus the NAW established the Distribution Number Bank (DNB) and all of the commodity line affiliated associations submitted their supplier lists and agreed to accept a 5-digit DNB manufacturer number. Don Martin headed the project. In 1971, the National Association of Wholesale Grocers told NAW and DNB that it was participating in an ad-hoc organization seeking to develop not only a grocery supplier/product code structure but also a machine-readable symbol; and it was looking for an administrator. DNB submitted a proposal and was chosen over D&B and S&P. The verbal similarity between DNB and D&B resulted in a name change to Distribution Codes, Inc (DCI). Don recruited and headed the administrative group supporting the 1973 decision of the UPC symbol-selection committee. Over the following five years, this team was the staff behind the UPC Symbol Technical Advisory Committee and its sub-committees (headed by AIDC-100 members Fran Beck and Dick Mindlin). STAC formulated the initial Guidelines and Specifications on symbol film masters, symbol printing and verification, symbol placement and orientation on the retail product, plus the many variations in product numbering standards. All of these are today taken for granted; but were then pioneer efforts in uncharted waters. Dons DCI team published a monthly 8-page Newsletter that was the bible for those who believed in the UPC and its ultimate success, in spite of an article in Business Week about the The Symbol that Failed. Outside of the UPC work, DCI developed the specifications for the ITF 14-digit Shipping Container Code and Symbol that was ultimately adopted by the UCC. The administration and implementation of the UPC until 1978 under his guidance was a critical stepping-stone to the acceptance of barcoding and thus the success of AIDC as we know it today. Don passed away in 2001; and for more information on his life, see: www.arlingtoncemetery.net/dfmartin.htm

Paul V. McEnroe

pvmcenroe@gmail.com

After receiving his BEE degree as the Valedictorian of the University of Dayton in 1959, Paul McEnroe was awarded the President’s University Fellowship for Graduate Study at Purdue, where he received an MSEE in 1960. He then immediately began a 23 year career with IBM, during which he was responsible for the development, from inception through shipment, of the Universal Product Code (UPC), commonly known as “THE BARCODE”, which today marks almost all products worldwide. While at IBM, he received The Degree of Engineer, with Distinction in Business Administration, from Stanford University in 1972. He also completed Post Graduate Executive programs in Engineering at UCLA and in International Business at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree (Sc.D.) from the California State University System (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo) in 2016.

At IBM, he also developed the LASER SCANNER, the first consumer product to use a LASER, and other systems components. These included IBM’s first INTELLIGENT TERMINAL, first CUSTOM DESIGNED integrated circuit chip, and first DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM as well as the Retail Industry’s Magnetic Code for Stock Keeping Units (SKU’s). Along with co-inventor Jack Jones, he holds the Patent (#3,699,312 issued Oct. 17, 1972) on the hand-held BARCODE scanner. Later, he was responsible for the development of “THE TOKEN RING” Local Area Network (LAN), now standardized as the IEEE 802.5 International Communications Standard.

He has served as IBM’s Group Director of Systems Development and as Director of the Raleigh Laboratory, also known as the Research Triangle Park Laboratory, where he managed approximately 2500 engineers and scientists and was responsible for the Development and Business Management (including Profit and Loss), for almost all of IBM’s Communications Products, producing annual revenues of about $2 billion in the early 1980’s.

In 1984, he left IBM to become President of Trilogy Systems Corporation, a wafer scale technology based mainframe computer company, which was the largest “start up” company to that point in time. At Trilogy he developed copper-polyimide MULTI-CHIP MODULE TECHNOLOGY and then negotiated a merger/acquisition between Trilogy and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), personally interfacing between the respective founding CEO’s Gene Amdahl and Ken Olsen. In 1992, he became President of the Pathway Group, a Silicon Valley Consulting Firm. In 1994, he retired and began a new career in ranching.

In 1974 he received the IBM SDD President’s Award for the Development of the Supermarket System and the BARCODE. In 1998 he was honored as The University of Dayton’s Most Distinguished Alumnus. In 1999, he was recognized by the Smithsonian Museum of American History for the development of the BARCODE on its 25^th Anniversary. He received the Purdue University Outstanding Electrical Engineer Award in 2001, was named an “Old Master” of Purdue in 2002, and honored with the Purdue Distinguished Alumni Award in 2018. In 2013, he was honored as The Livestock Person of the Year by the Santa Barbara County Fair. Also in 2013, he was named the Outstanding Alumnus of Chaminade-Julienne High School in Dayton, Ohio. For 38 years he has been a member of the President’s Cabinet at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, and is Chairman Emeritus of the California Engineering Foundation, a Senior Life Member of the IEEE, and in 2023 was named “Vaquero of the Year” by the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum.

Formerly, he was President of the Santa Barbara County Cattlemen’s Association, a State Director of the California Cattlemen’s Association, a Director of the Land Trust of Santa Barbara County, a Member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of St. John’s Seminary and Seminary College, Camarillo, CA, a Director of the Western Commercial Space Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, a Member of California’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Educational Technology, the Engineering Advisory Boards at both the University of Dayton and North Carolina State University and Who’s Who Worldwide.

In 2023, he authored a book, THE BARCODE, HOW A TEAM CREATED ONE 0F THE WORLD’S MOST UBIQUITIOUS TECHNOLOGIES, A MEMOIR. Along with his wife Tina, he is co-founder of the Tina Hansen McEnroe and Paul V. McEnroe Reading and Language Arts Clinic in the Graduate School of Education at UCSB. Today, he enjoys his lifelong dream of ranching, and just being a cowboy on Rancho La Purisima, their commercial horse breeding and cattle ranch in California’s Santa Ynez Valley. Paul and Tina have five children and seven grandchildren.

Email
pvmcenroe@gmail.com

Marlin H. Mickle

Marlin H. Mickle was the Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor in the School of Engineering of the University of Pittsburgh. He holds appointments as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Primary), Professor of Computer Engineering, Professor of Telecommunications, and Professor of Industrial Engineering. He is the Executive Director of the Swanson Center for Product Innovation. He received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and the Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in 1961, 1963, and 1967. His research, development and educational activities have been supported by grants and/or contracts from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Science Foundation, the United States Army, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, NASA, the Bureau of Mines, the Department of Commerce, the Pittsburgh Foundation, the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, American Sterilizer Company, Contraves Goertz Corporation, PPG, Inc., the Electric Power Research Institute, Intel, Digital Equipment Corporation, Tandy, Motorola, Texas Instruments Corporation, Ben Franklin Program, WesDyne, the Lemelson Foundation, Argonne Laboratory, EPA, Coleman Foundation, DARPA, the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, Medrad, Siemens, Vocollect, Mobile Aspects, Matthews Marking Corp., ChemDAQ, Syracuse Research Corporation, Gnostic Systems, Identifi Technologies, FireFly, ADCUS, SSI, Inc. He is co-author and co-editor of over 20 books. In addition, Marlin H. Mickle has over 125 publications in referred journals, conference proceedings, etc Among his many outstanding credits, Marlin H. Mickle is a member of the Scientific, Product or Technical Advisory Boards of MandalMed, Inc., and E-SOC, Inc. both in San Francisco, SmartWear Technologies, San Diego, FireFly Power Technologies, LLC, Ligonier, PA, ClearCount, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, and a member of the team that won Honorable Mention at the 2004 Carnegie Science Center Awards for Excellence 2004, a 1988 Recipient of the Systems Research and Cybernetics Award of the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, Life Fellow of the IEEE, Faculty Honor Roll 2001, Advisor or Co-Advisor of four teams selected by the NCIIA for March Madness for the Mind with displays at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. (3 times) and at the Boston Museum of Science. Marlin is the recipient of the Carnegie Science Center Award for Excellence in Corporate Innovation, 2005. He has held engineering positions with the IBM and Westinghouse Electric Corporation and has also served as Program Director of the Systems Theory and Applications Program of the National Science Foundation. Specific activities as relating to the Automatic Identification industry include: 1. The following two RFID research projects established the testing procedures for DOD (AHRIST Project) and the 915 MHz Standard: DARPA – Feasibility of RFID Paper Tags for Identification, Sortation, and Tracking of Hazardous Materials, Billo, R.E. and Mickle M. H., 1999 2000. U.S. Defense Logistics Agency – A Local Positioning System for Movement Alert, Billo, R.E. and Mickle, M. H., 1999 2000. 2. The following research projects have been to establish an RFID technology as an alternative to backscatter. This technology is termed ARS for Active Remote Sensing: Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse – A Wireless SOC with RF Capability, Marlin H. Mickle, PI, December 2000 to November 2000. Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse A Stand Alone RF SOIC, February 2002 to April 2003. Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse SOC Frequency Synthesis and Control for Radio Frequency Communication: Development of Novel Hardware and Design Flow, January 2002 to December 2002, William W. Clark, James T. Cain, Michael R. Lovell, Marlin H. Mickle, and Qing-Ming Wang. Identifi Systems, Antenna Design for an RF Chip, Marlin H. Mickle, 1 year. NASA/Gnostic Systems STTR, Passive Wireless Sensors for Spacecraft Applications, Marlin H. Mickle and James T. Cain. FireFly Power Technologies, Inc. – Research and Development in Energy Harvesting, Marlin H. Mickle and James T. Cain, July 2004 – July 2005. 3. The following RFID research projects are directly related to active or backscatter RFID: ADCUS, Inc. – An RFID Tag Generation System for the ADCUS EISC 16 Bit Processor and Design Environment, Marlin H. Mickle, Alex K. Jones, James T. Cain and Raymond Hoare, $175,947, 1 year, September 2004 – August 2005. ClearCount, Inc. – RFID Solutions for Tagging Instruments and Sponges, Marlin H. Mickle and James T. Cain, $14,000, SCPI, 4 Months, 2004. 4. The following are traditional backscatter RFID research publications: ” Total Asset Visibility using Intelligent Labels,” Jose David Porter, Marlin H. Mickle and Richard E. Billo, Warehouse of the Future Conference, Atlanta, GA, May 14-16, 2000. “Autonomous Wireless Information Systems on a Chip with Seamless Integration, “Marlin H. Mickle, Raymond R. Hoare, Richard E. Billo, James T. Cain, Ivan Kourtev and Ronald G. Hoelzeman, 4TH WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS, July 2000. Porter, J.D., Mickle, M., Billo, R.E., Harmon, C.K., Harmon, M.A., Bruno, T.A., “Total Asset Visibility using Intelligent Labels”, Frontline Solutions Conference, Chicago, IL, Oct 3-5, 2000. A Standard Test Protocol for Evaluation of Radio Frequency Identification Systems For Supply Chain Applications, Porter, J.D., Billo, R.E., Mickle, M.H. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Volume 23, Number 1, 2004, pp. 46 – 55. 4. The following are ARS style RFID publications: “Energy Harvesting, Profiles and Potential Sources,” Marlin H. Mickle, Michael Lovell, Leonid Mats, Lorenz Neureuter, Dmitry Gorodetsky, International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks, Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 150 – 160, October 2001. “Energy Harvesting for DNA Gene Sifting and Sorting,” James T. Cain, William C. Clark, Laura Schaefer, Wlodek Moldeki, Dan Ulinski and Marlin H. Mickle, International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks, Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 140-149, October 2001. Marlin H. Mickle , Minhong Mi, Chris Capelli, and Harold Swift, “RF Energy Harvesting with Multiple Antennas in the Same Space.”” to appear in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, December 2005. Minhong Mi, Marlin H. Mickle, James T. Cain and Timothy Minor, “Protocol and Device Model for Remote Autonomous Devices with Limited Power, accepted for publication in the International Journal of Computers and Applications, 2005. Marlin H. Mickle , Minhong Mi, Chris Capelli, and Harold Swift, “Powering Autonomous Cubic Millimeter Devices” to appear in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, February 2006. “The PENI Tag,” Marlin H. Mickle and Alex Wang, 2nd Academic Alliance Meeting, May 2002 “The PENI Tag,” Alex Wang and Marlin H. Mickle, Smart Labels, USA, 2003. 5. PATENTS relating to ARS type Sensors and RFID Apparatus for Energizing a Remote Station and Related Method, with Kevin W. Wells and Ronald G. Hoelzeman, 2001, U.S. Patent No. 6,289,237. Apparatus for Energizing a Remote Station and Related Method, with Minhong Mi, Dmitry Gorodetsky, Leonid Mats, Lorenz Neureuter, 2003, U.S. Patent No. 6,615,074 Energy Harvesting Circuit and Associated Methods, Marlin H. Mickle, Chris Capelli, Harold Swift, U. S. Patent No. 6,856,291. 6. INVENTION DISCLOSURES relating to traditional backscatter and active RFID tags Case No. Title 1015 Method for manufacturing RFID Tags 1055 Method for Automatic Generation of Software for Integrated Circuit Microprocessors 1056 Method and Device for Reducing Power Consumption of Active RFID Tags 1058 Radio frequency identification (RFID) Packing Tape 1070 Air Interface for an Active RFID Tag 1094 An RFID Tag with 2 Dimensional Backscatter 7. INVENTION DISCLOSURES relating to ARS type Sensors including RFID CaseNo. Title 858 ENERGY HARVESTING CIRCUIT 901 WiFi Recharging Apparatus 1072 RFID Bar Code: Multiple Antennas-Single Diode 1081 Continuous Communication from a Base Station to a Passive Device Continuous Communication from a Base Station to a Passive Device 1038 Virtual Pulse Ultra Wide Band Communication 1055 Method and Software for Customized/Power Efficient IC Devices (An Extension of Froot Loops to RF Signatures) 1068 AM Energy Harvesting Transmitting Profile(s) 1069 AM Energy Harvesting Transmitting Profile and Communications with a Wireless Autonomous Device(WAD) 1071 Method and Software for Customized/Power Efficient IC Devices 1072 RFID Bar Code: Multiple Antennas-Single Diode 1082 Device Data Transmission Disclosure 1081 Continuous Communication from a Base Station to a Passive Device Continuous Communication from a Base Station to a Passive Device 1083 Method and Software for Customized/Power Efficient IC Devices 1095 Multiple Antenna Energy Harvesting 1093 A Multi-Dimensional RFID Tag 1096 Multiple Phase Energy Harvesting 8. M. S. THESES DIRECTED TO COMPLETION in RFID Chad Emahiser – An Investigation of a Radio Frequency Energy Detector Using Microstrip Technology, 1999, (co-advisor Raymond R. Hoare) Dmitry Gorodetsky, 2002, An Investigation of On-Chip Antenna Characteristics Related to Energy Harvesting Applications Charles E. Greene, 2002, On-Chip Impedance Transformations for a Standard CMOS Michael Snyder, 2004, An Analysis of Antennas and the Effect of Proximate Elements and Conductors, 2003 David Sammel, 2005, Designing, Fabricating and Testing Concurrently Active Wireless Sensors 9. Ph.D. DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED TO COMPLETION in RFID Minhong Mi, “Analysis, Design, and Optimization of Antennas on CMOS Integrated Circuits for Energy Harvesting Applications, 2003 Joshua Maina, “Complex Pulse Forming Technique using AM Detector Type Circuitry and the Application of CDMA to RFID for the Simultaneous reading of Multiple Tags”, 2005. 10. Memberships Member of the Science Advisory Board of FireFly Power Technologies, LLC, Ligonier, PA Member of the Science Advisory Board of ClearCount, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA Member of the Science Advisory Board of E-SOC, Inc., San Francisco, CA and Pittsburgh, PA Member of the Product Advisory Board of Mobile Aspects, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, SmartWear, San Diego, CA Editor, International Journal for Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications, Inderscience Publishers Alternate Member, INCITS T6 Standards Committee

Rick Morgan

Rick Morgan, 62, of Erie, Pa., and formerly of Corry, died on Saturday, September 19, 2015, at his residence. He was born on April 30, 1953, in Corry, Pa., a son of Holland “Sonny” Morgan of Erie, Pa., and the late Joan L. Tillotson Morgan Rick was raised and educated in Corry, graduating from Corry Area High School in 1971. He then attended Edinboro University where he received his Bachelor’s Degree in English in 1975. Over the years, he was co-owner of Ricky’s Place in Corry, had worked at Corry Manufacturing Company and then for Corry Publishing. He had been self-employed since 2002 as owner, editor and writer of RMG Enterprises in Erie, which publishes SCANDCR Newsletter. Rick enjoyed spending time with his family and friends, especially at his camp in Cook’s Forest. He was always a fan of the Beatles, in addition to listening to their music and collecting memorabilia, they had a great influence on his music career. Rick bought his first guitar at age 8 and played in his first band at age 10. Over the years, he played in several bands, including Freeway, Rumors and Revolving Door. In addition to his mother, Rick was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents Willard and Katherine Pollack Tillotson; paternal grandmother Cleo Dougherty Morgan; and his paternal great-grandfather D. O. Dougherty. Rick is survived by his father; his wife Dorothy K. “Dottie” Baressi Morgan, whom he married on June 9, 1995 in Corry; a daughter Mandy Graves and her husband Jake of Erie, Pa.; a son Michael Morgan and his wife Chanda of Charlotte, N.C.; two stepdaughters Jacque Hill and her companion Kelly Cox of Corry, Pa., and Jessica Hill of Corry, Pa.; a stepson Jimmy Hill and his companion Jana Christensen of Columbus, Pa.; two sisters Valerie Anderson and her husband Carl of Erie, Pa., and Joni Kubiak and her husband Dennis of York, Pa.; a brother Ron Morgan of New Jersey; and a close friend Tim Lee, who donated a kidney to Rick over 17 years ago. He is also survived by 12 grandchildren Quinn Morgan, Mason Graves, Ruthie, Lily and Garrett Light, Lennon and Jesse Hill, Alli Morgan, Addison Rowland, Taylor and Cameron Collins and Kole Christensen. Several aunts, uncles, cousins and many nieces and nephews also survive. There will be no visiting hours. A celebration of life gathering will be held at VFW Post # 264, 1151 Mead Ave., Corry, Pa., on Saturday, September 26, 2015, from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. Arrangements are under the care of the Bracken Funeral Home, Inc., 315 N. Center St., Corry, Pa. Memorials may be made to Corry Ambulance Service or Emergycare, both at 1701 Sassafras St., Erie, PA 16502. To sign the guest book or send condolences, please visit www.brackenfh.com. Sign the Guestbook at www.GoErie.com/obits

Heinrich Oehlmann

EURODATA COUNCIL
Jozef Israelslaan 3 Den Haag, NL-2596AM The Netherlands

49-3445-78-11-60
info@EurodataCouncil.org

Heinrich Oehlmann was born in 1941 in Naumburg/Saale, Germany. Educated as engineer in communications technologies. He worked in automation technologies at SIEMENS, ERICSSON, PHILIPS. In 1978 he founded his own engineering firm Ing. Büro Oehlmann. From there companies like ICS AG-Switzerland and Germany were born. With these he developed automatic identification applications for industry and healthcare, applications that are in use worldwide today. Since the mid eighties Heinrich Oehlmann participated in standardization work for barcode and RFID as a communication vehicle for supply chain logistics representing DIN (German Industry Standards)-, CEN- & ISO-committees. RFID-Technologies play a key role in these areas since 2004. Heinrich Oehlmann is chairman of the Eurodata Council, Den Haag Netherlands and board member of the Health Industry Business Communication Council (EHIBCC) in Brussels Belgium and as such member of the International Health Care Committee IHIBCC-TC. As convener of DIN-standards committee Information Technology NI 31 he coordinates the requirements of users in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31. The industry recommendation ISO powered RFID Solution was created. As Senior Consultant Heinrich Oehlmann currently works on several user projects in barcode and RFID. ” He founded ELMICRON GmbH in 1979 with a focus on Automation und Data capture (Still in existence today and managed by his sons Harald). ” Developed the first identification system in 1980 erstes on the basis of metal punch cards that were spray paint resistant for BMW, together with colleagues from ELMICRON AG, Wetzikon-Switzerland. ” 1981: first barcode installation with label printers and wands form Intermec. First use of CODABAR in blood banks. ” 1984: first barcode laser scanner installation at BMW on production lines. ” 1985 AIM-Europe, Chairman of SCANTECH in Utrecht – Netherlands. ” 1987: first 2D-Code-Installation Stacked Barcode CODABLOCK at the German Post, and at Carl Freudenberg, Weinheim, developed by his son Dr. Harald Oehlmann ” 1986: first installation von LF-Transponder technology collection of load data at a cement plant. ” 1990: Support für the ODETTE-label (later referred to as VDA 4902) for Tracking & Tracing in the automobile supply chain. ” 1991: first Tracking & Tracing Systems food industry at Jacob Suchard. This project was relevant from the peoint of view of the development of Appolication Identifiers in the GS1-System. ” 1992: CEN TC 225 delegate and Chair Multi-Industry-Transport label ” 1995: Technical director in the EHIBCC (European Health Industry Business Communication Council, Den Haag – Netherlands ” 1996: Delegate in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 AIDC ” 1999: EUROCODE for blood products, development support until registration. ” 2000: Founding of Eurodata Council Foundation, Den Haag – Netherlands, as user and liaison organization for use of DIN, ISO & IEC Standards in Industry and healthcare. ” 2001: Member of ANSI-Maintenance Committee Data identifiers for Barcode & RFID according to ISO/IEC 15418. ” Today: Convener of DIN NI 043-01-31 and German representative in several ISO & IEC committees and reporter for AIM-Deutschland and its members. His vision: Interoperability of AIDC-Systems between industry, commerce and healthcare without monopolistic restrictive numbering systems tyat work as a barrier. Hybrid technologies allow for the optimal use of AIDC-technologies: Where there is RFID inside there is barcode on the outside.

Bjorn Passad

Wivalliusgatan 13, SE Stockholm, SE-112 60

46-854-552-525
b.passad@outlook.com

Bjorn Passad, then CEO at the Swedish Retail Development Council, initiated in 1969 the national project that would take Sweden into the world of article identification and bar coding. He represented Sweden at the first “EAN-to-be” meeting in Paris 1974. He had many contacts with the early UPC project and was an eager spokesman for a European solution compatible with UPC. After the creation of EAN International he served on all Technical Working Parties and finally on the Technical Systems Committee. He retired as CEO for EAN Sweden (now GS1 Sweden) in 1999. He was awarded the Soederberg Business Prize for 2004, a prestigious Swedish retail prize, honoring thirty years of successful work in a leading roll in the field of auto identification that had benefited the private as well as the public sector. In 1974 he suggested that the new European numbering and bar coding system ought to be enlarged so that it would cater also for other retail industries than grocery. This message was repeated from time to time and led in May 1981 to the chair of the EAN International Working Party on General Merchandise. This WP essentially dealt with the capacity in the numbering system and with the feasibility of the system in other retail sectors. A number of hearings were held with international manufacturers and retailers associations, in particular those representing the apparel and shoe industries. These industries had traditionally identified items at model level and then described such variations as color and size with add-ons. EAN/UPC demanded identification at the lowest level. In cause of time and after many lengthy discussions an agreement was reached on how the rules of the system should be implemented outside the grocery sector. The final report from the WP was presented at the EAN International General Assembly in Auckland in May 1985. The report was approved by the General Assembly and simultaneously endorsed by UCC represented at the meeting by Hal Juckett. UCC had undertaken a similar study and reached the same conclusions. Essentially the final report demonstrated: – That one common standard was needed for general merchandise and grocery alike. – That only non-significant non-classifying numbers provide the flexibility needed to encompass all types of products in one generally applicable standard. – That range coding suffers from severe deficiencies and thus existing rules, requiring that every variant be allocated a separate number, should be preserved.

Theo Pavlidis

Theo Pavlidis
Gurwin Jewish Residences – Room B105
50 Hauppauge Road
Commack, NY 11725
USA
t.pavlidis@ieee.org

Theo Pavlidis was born and grew up in Greece, graduating from the National Technical University of Athens in 1957. He came to the United States in 1961 and received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964. He was on the faculty of Princeton University during 1964-80, a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs during 1980-86 and on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook during 1986-2001. He has consulted for numerous companies in the past including Symbol Technologies, Ricoh of Japan, AT&T Bell Labs, Datacopy, Exxon, RCA, etc. He became a fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) in 1979 and of IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) in 1994. In 1999 he became a Life Fellow of IEEE. In 2000 he was awarded by IAPR the King-Sun Fu prize for “fundamental contributions to the theory and methodology of structural pattern recognition.” (This is the major award of the International Association for Pattern Recognition presented to an individual every two years.) He has authored more than 100 technical papers. He also authored five books, co-edited three books and received thirteen patents on various aspects of bar coding and document analysis. He is the co-inventor of the two-dimensional bar code PDF417. His patents include: –T. Pavlidis, J. Cai, F. Schuessler, and J. D. Chen “Method of Decoding Bar Code Symbols form Partial Scans,’ U.S. Patent 5,241,164, Aug. 31, 1993. –D. P. Goren, T. Pavlidis, and G. Spitz “Decoding Bar Codes from Multiple Scans using Element Replacement,’ U.S. Patent 5,262,626, Nov. 16, 1993. –T. Pavlidis and J. Cai “Decoding Bar Code Symbols by Determining the Best Alignment of Partial Scans,’ U.S. Patent 5,278,398, Jan. 11, 1994. –T. Pavlidis and J. Zhou “Page Segmentation with Tilt Compensation,’ U.S. Patent 5,285,504, Feb. 8, 1994. –T. Pavlidis, Y. P. Wang, and J. Swartz “High Density Two-Dimensional Bar Code Symbol,’ U.S. Patent 5,304,786, April 19, 1994. –E. B. Joseph and T. Pavlidis “Analog Waveform Decoder utilizing Histogram of Edge Sizes,’ U.S. Patent 5,311,001, May 10, 1994. –T. Pavlidis, Y. P. Wang, and J. Swartz “Systems Utilizing a High Density Two Dimensional Bar Code Symbol,’ U.S. Patent 5,399,846, March 21, 1995. –E. B. Joseph and T. Pavlidis “Analog Waveform Decoder using Peak Locations,’ U.S. Patent 5,504,318, Apr. 2, 1996. –C-C. J. Li, T. Pavlidis, and J. Katz “Method and System for Bar Code Acquisition’ U.S. Patent 5,504,319, April 2, 1996. –T. Pavlidis, Y. P. Wang, and J. Swartz “High Density Two Dimensional Bar Code Symbology’ U.S. Patent 5,504,322, April 2, 1996. –T. Pavlidis “Segmenting a page of a document into areas which are text and which are halftone’ U.S. Patent 5,566,255, Oct. 15, 1996. –T. Pavlidis, Y. P. Wang, and J. Swartz “Microfilm Reader for High Density Two-Dimensional Bar Code Symbology, ‘U.S. Patent 5,796,090, August 18, 1998. –J. Swartz, … , T.Pavlidis, …. (total of 8 names) “Statistical Sampling Security Methodology for self-scanning System,” U.S. Patent 6,092,725, July 25, 2000. –J. Swartz, … , T.Pavlidis, …. (total of 8 names) “Statistical Sampling Security Methodology for self-scanning System,” U.S. Patent 6,672,506, January 6, 2004. He was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) from 1982 to 1986, and has been a member of the editorial board of many other journals, including the IEEE Proceedings. He was the program chairman of IDCAR’93 (Intern. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition) and has served in the past as general chairman of the Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition (1980) and the 1988 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation. From 1993 to 1996 he was on the board of governors of the IEEE Computer Society.

George Plesko

CONSULTANT
7 Magnolia Way Chadds Ford, PA 19317

argeeo@gmail.com

Mr. George Plesko clearly has a very creative background when one considers that he is the holder of nearly 50 U. S. and foreign patents. These are primarily focused on products, components, assembly/manufacturing methods for bar code laser scanners. George is the Founder and CEO of Gap Technologies, Inc., a company dedicated to the design, manufacturer, and sales of sub-miniature, portable laser scanner technologies aimed at the healthcare and portable application arena. Following initial acceptance in the market, sales exceeded $1.6 Million at the end of a profitable 2nd year thanks to major customers including (but not limited to) Casio, Quantum, Fujitsu, and Dow. Ultimately, GTI was sold to PSC in 1999. George earned a B. S. and M. S. in Physics from Penn State University with his thesis in Nuclear Physics. He has taught Physics at the secondary and college levels and addressed audiences up to 800 attendees on technology topics. SENIOR TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE/ TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT Technology Strategy ● R&D ● General Management ● Joint Ventures ● Operations ● Manufacturing Versatile and innovative technologist and business strategist with proven successes as Senior Vice President and General Manager of miniature scanning division of $250M public company, Director of Quality for the global privately held Mars Corporation, CEO of R&D/manufacturing start-up ultimately vied for and sold to one of 5 public companies. Prolific scientist/inventor and holder of approximately 50 issued U.S. and foreign patents. Demonstrated ability to develop pioneering products with quality and reliability designed in. Remarkable success inventing/simplifying production processes and devising custom machinery/tooling to accomplish complex manufacturing tasks with minimal resources, at costs often orders of magnitude lower than normal. Skilled in partnership/joint venture development, capitalization, and establishing sound corporate structures. Selected Highlights  Founded and drove manufacturing start-up rapidly to profitability in 2 years, including financing and establishing manufacturing facilities, sales team, R&D, engineering, shipping/receiving, accounting, etc.  Delivered exponential improvements in product reliability, $Millions in cost savings in world class QA function that thrust major corporation to global market leadership.  Directed R&D effort that produced multiple innovative, award-winning miniature scanning products.  Invented 50+ products, components, and methods. Wrote/secured patents independently at fraction of usual cost.  Directed senior engineering teams at several large corporations. Built and directed global staff of 45 at $30 billion company. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE METROLOGIC INSTRUMENTS INC., Blackwood, New Jersey – Present Principal Scientist PSC SCANNING SYSTEMS INC., Eugene, Oregon 1999 – 2002 $250M international global provider of data capture solutions for retail supply chains. Broad array of products and services including point of sale and portable scanners, warehousing & distribution, wireless networking, and self checkout systems. Senior Vice President PSC /General Manager of Miniature Scanner Division Retained to run division formed upon sale of Gap Technologies to PSC. When PSC later sold division to Symbol Technologies, remained under contract through 2002 to provide strategic analysis of 350+ U.S. patents. GAP TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (GTI), Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania 1991 – 1999 $5M developer and manufacturer of ultra miniature laser scanners for barcode industry. CEO/Founder/Chairman Conceived idea for company based on market niche for sub-miniature, portable laser scanner technologies aimed at health care and portable applications. Built enterprise from scratch, including incorporation, capitalization/funding, product design, staffing, and establishment of complete organizational structure. Managed or directed others in operation of all functional areas including design, manufacturing, production and sales, with personal focus on engineering, process development, and invention. Produced operating profit by 2nd year of manufacturing – driving sales from zero to $1.6M. Positioned GTI as attractive acquisition candidate, with major customers including Casio, Quantum, Fujitsu, and Dow. Poised to generate $5-7M next-year volume. Infrastructure/Business Management ● Secured $3+M in venture financing while retaining majority shareholder status, and established legal structure comprised of 2 Subchapter S Corporations, one for R&D and patent work, and another for manufacturing/production/distribution. ● Hired, trained, and drove performance of complete technical, production, sales and administrative staff. ● Established open door environment with focus on staff development and cross training that yielded loyal, high retention team that would volunteer to work with delayed pay. Many team members were actively recruited upon sale of company. ● Secured ~50 U.S. and foreign patents for products, components, and methods, personally writing most applications and engaging large Philadelphia law firm to file and prosecute them, holding costs to approximately 1/10 of normal costs. ● Averted hostile takeover attempt, marketed company to 5 public corporations, and sold company to PSC in 1999.

Leadership Council

Mark Reboulet

REBOULET & ASSOCIATES LLC
P.O. Box 71, Tipp City, OH 45371

937-974-1243
mark@reboulet.net

Mark Reboulet is the Founder/President of Reboulet & Associates LLC, an innovative consulting firm focused on Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC), exploiting DoD Item Unique Identification (IUID), FDA Unique Device Identification (UDI), data collection/traceability in manufacturing and small business mentoring. Mr. Reboulet has over 35 years AF civil service in logistics, AIDC, business process re-engineering, large scale project management in the AF and DoD logistics and supply chain business processes. Mr. Reboulet is nationally and internationally recognized for his work and contributions in AIDC standards development. Mr. Reboulet has over 27 years in the AIDC market sector, influencing AF/DoD/industry business processes in supply, equipment, transportation, munitions, maintenance, in-transit visibility (ITV), Nuclear Weapons Related Material tracking and supply chain management. His early Foreign Military Sales (FMS) involvement with Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia provided a strong supply chain foundation to build a successful AIDC career. Mr. Reboulet, in 1987 was promoted as the first DoD Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) program manager. Mr. Reboulet led the AF/DoD in the standardization, and adoption of RFID throughout ITV processes worldwide. His early standards work on Integrated Circuit Cards (Smart Cards) formed the foundation for the deployment of the Common Access Card (CAC). In 1994, the AF consolidated Logistics Marking and Automated Reading Symbols (LOGMARS) and Microcircuit Technology in Logistics Application (MITLA) under Mr. Reboulet, forming the first AF Automatic identification technology (AIT) Program Management Office (PMO). Mr. Reboulet was the voting DoD member for ANSI X3B10 Smart Card Committee, AF voting member of ANSI X3T6 Technical Working Group addressing RFID transponder interface leading the team to establish National standards for RFID (INCITS 256) that later became ISO/IEC 18000-7. Mr. Reboulet was the AF/DoD voting member of ANSI MH10 SC8 who puts forward the United States position on AIDC standards to International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Mr. Reboulet chair/led this committee for four years. Mr. Reboulet was a hand selected member of the DoD team charged by acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Mr. Wynne to use AIDC to improve accountability of DoD inventories. From this team, the DoD Unique Identification (UID) program was born in September 2002. The AF charged Mr. Reboulet and his AIT team with developing policy and implementation plans to meet all of the DoD UID Policy. Thinking outside the Box, Mr. Reboulet envisioned and developed an enterprise deployment methodology for AIDC across multiple AF business processes which resulted in the establishment of the Award winning AF Enterprise Data Collection Layer (EDCL). EDCL standardizes the application architecture on mobile devices as well as the data synchronization from the mobile device to an AF Standard data store. Next, EDCL applies unique transactional transformation through a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and then publishes the transaction through a standard Enterprise Bus to disparate backend AF systems. The EDCL architecture supports mobile devices that are connected, casually connected and disconnected from a standard AF wired or wireless network that is seamless to the user. As an Expert Witness, Mr. Reboulet helped sort out a patent infringement lawsuit for shipping labels that affected the entire AIDC industry and their customers. Mr. Reboulet was inducted into the ADC 100 in 1998, which recognizes pioneers in the automated data collection industry. Mr. Reboulet was recognized as a top 100 federal executive in 2001 by Federal Computer Weekly. Mr. Reboulet received the AIM Global Percival Award in 2007 recognizing outstanding contributions to the application of automatic identification and data capture technologies in the user community. Finishing out his career in the AF, Mr. Reboulet was again hand selected to be the Deputy Division Chief, AFMC System Integration Division, overseeing portfolio management of AF and AFMC systems including AF Capability initiative such as Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MROi), Enterprise Supply Chain Analysis, Planning and Execution (ESCAPE), and Project Lifecycle Management (PLMi).

John Robertson

INFOSIGHT
20700 US Route 23 Chillicothe, OH 45601

740-642-3600
jr@infosight.com

John Robertson attended the University of Illinois (Electrical Engineering). As an undergraduate, he was the President of the Electrical Engineering Honorary Eta Kappa Nu, and a member of the Scientific Research Honorary Sigma Xi. His Masters thesis involved The Design of Low Noise Figure UHF Transistor Amplifiers. Johns Ph.D. thesis might be paraphrased What happens to an evaporating charged water droplet? His experimental work led him to become facile in and improve the techniques required to produce practical continuous ink jet printers. Upon Graduation in 1969, John was recruited by Mead Corporation (Central Research in Chillicothe, Ohio) where he lead a team in the development of large array ink jet printers which involved thousands of parallel jets. While at Mead, he filed (and later obtained) ten patents covering ink jets and one involving smokestack air cleaning. One inkjet patent which disclosed deflection using the charged drop image in a nearby conducting plane has been widely used in high speed (web) printers. John took an extended leave of absence to attempt sailing around the world. He returned periodically to do some consulting but eventually accepted that seasickness had bettered him. He returned to land in Chillicothe (1971) where he founded Telesis (now Telesis Technologies). Telesis originally was an Invention on Demand laboratory which developed as many as 50 unique products per year (1980). Early patents involved Data Entry Terminals and Electrostatic Length Measurement Devices. Some of his more fun projects included controlling electrostatic discharge from hovering helicopters, and developing electronic tuners for steel guitars (players tend to have perfect pitch not a big market opportunity here). Eventually Telesis found its niche focusing on product marking and automatic identification (reading) in situations where conventional labels and scanners dont work. His development of the PINSTAMP® dot peen marker permitted the marking of characters and codes on a wide variety of products. Specially encoded dot peen axle marking fonts (1 patent) permitted investigators at the first World Trade Center bombing to identify the VIN of the responsible truck. The PINSTAMP is widely used for marking permanent dot peened codes (esp. 2D codes). A large tire manufacturer came to Telesis for help in a reader for molded bar codes, they had built an entire new plant based on automatic sortation of tires and unfortunately the readers they had chosen didnt work. John quickly developed a hardware edge detector / pre-qualifier vision reader which read the all black (zero contrast) codes on a high speed rotating tire utilizing structured lighting. The basic NUMBRA® patent has been the basis for a number of vision based high speed readers including the first (so called stretch) reader for reading dot peen marked PINSTAMP® codes on airbag propellant canisters both before and after painting. The NUMBRA technology has also been utilized in the manufacture of ERW (welded) pipe by programmably spraying large binary painted codes on the pipe surface, which survive severe handling and high temperature annealing. John has two patents related to the NUMBRA code reading technology. In 1993, John sold Telesis and along with 13 employees, who loved custom design, started InfoSight. The tag line on the InfoSight show booth is We Barcode Difficult Stuff. Dr. Robertson developed the laser markable metal tag (1994) used to identify steel. These barcoded tags survive being attached to 1800°F red hot steel slabs. Today over 20 million tags per year are coated by InfoSight and are on-site marked by InfoSight designed CO2 laser markers. More recent tag types survive hot pickling acids and annealing operations. InfoSight even makes a tagging system for identifying structural components with bar codes which will survive the entire hot dipped galvanizing process (acids, bases followed by molten zinc). Three additional patents have been issued to Dr. Robertson for methods of robustly attaching such tags onto steel. InfoSight today designs and manufactures complete mill-duty fully-automated machines to make and attach bar coded tags and has installed such machines worldwide. John developed a method of placing unique bar codes on each fragile piece of red hot CRT glass — right after exit from the mold. This process enables glass molding plants to track each individual piece and thereby collect data to facilitate the process optimization. He patented two technologies to apply bar coded identification on the protected inside surface of a piece of large diameter oil transmission pipe (patch spray and laser mark in one station). John has developed a suite of marking technologies to apply specially formulated coating patches (typically white) and then darken those using CO2 lasers. The result is a high contrast bar code which can be reliably read using low cost conventional scanners. A proper coating formulation permits such markings to survive high temperature (annealing and normalizing) operations or difficult chemical baths. Applications include ceramic cores of catalytic converters and forged steel crankshafts. He has recently developed an anodized aluminum label which contains a laser darkenable material in sub-surface pores. The marked tag is very abrasion and UV resistant and is ideally suited for unique identification (UID) of military and industrial assets. Johns newest adventure is the startup of a division of InfoSight called ViaLabel (see www.vialabel.com) which provides bar coding for laboratory samples where conventional labels just dont work. Examples include histology cassettes (slippery Delrin containers which are exposed to alcohols, xylene and formalin for long periods) and glass ampules requiring bar codes which must survive a minimum of 100 years of liquid nitrogen immersion. John has 40 US Patents and is a Fellow in the Instrument Society of America. He is a Registered Professional Engineer (Ohio), past President of the Electrostatics Society of America and a Graduate of the Harvard Business School OPM Program.

Donald Roxby

128 Victorian Rose Lane Gurley, AL 35748

WORK EXPERIENCE: Trans World Airlines (TWA), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida. 1964-1966 – Worked as subcontractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) where I was responsible for the receipt, processing, transportation, and destruction of classified documentation and materials used in support of strategic missile/satellite projects and other classified government sponsored programs. Managed their main vaults and eight (8) classified media retention centers. North American Aviation, North American Rockwell, Rockwell International, Boeing North American. 1966-1997 Worked in design, manufacturing, test, and flight operation environments and held engineering positions in quality, reliability and safety. Held key assignments on the Apollo, Skylab, Apollo Soyuz, Space Shuttle, Shuttle-C, Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle (HLLV) and X-33 Programs and participated in both the Apollo 1 and Apollo 13 accident investigations. In my position as lead Product Acceptance Analyst, I presented and obtained government acceptance for the Approach and Landing (ALT) test facility; space shuttle orbiters Enterprise, Challenger, and Columbia; and hundreds of mission equipment and ground support equipment end items whose combined value exceeded six billion dollars. Served as the companys information systems development point-man and assisted with the design, testing and implementation of numerous major information management systems to streamline product processing and reduce manufacturing, operations and maintenance costs, including the configuration management system currently used to monitor the as-designed as-built status of the Space Shuttle Orbiter vehicles and their supporting ground support equipment. Created and directed the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) Compressed Symbology Testing (CST) Laboratory and was instrumental in developing and testing 2-D symbol marking and reading technology. This included software testing, marking process development, metallurgical testing, reader development and system integration activities designed to bring 2-D technology to point of commercialization. Planned and negotiated the first government two-dimensional (2-D) symbol operational evaluation program (the United States Coast Guards Phase I Symbol Identification Flight Test Program). Submitted Innovation Disclosures and Patent Applications covering 42 marking processes and seven symbol capture and decoding methods. Robotic Vision Systems, Inc. (RVSI). (1997 to 2006) Served as the Director of the Symbology Research Center while working with NASA and the Department of Defense (DoD) to further develop 2-D symbol technology and to assist with it’s transfer to both the government and private sectors. Considered to be the leading expert in the application of permanent compressed symbology markings and the primary author of NASAs Data Matrix Identification Standard (NASA-STD-6002) and related Handbook (NASA-HDBK-6002), which have been used as a model for other government, commercial and international marking standards. Other key accomplishment included the successful management of the marking portion of the USAF Aging Landing Gear Life Extension Program, NASA Material – International Space Station Experiment (M-ISS-E) Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Marking Certification Program, the DoD/National Center of Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) Retrofit Part Marking Program and the USCG Phase II DPM Flight Test Program. Also obtained and managed two (2) RVSI/NASA Space Act Agreements initiated to develop advanced 2-D technologies including multiple read-through-paint devices and many patented symbol marking processes. EDUCATION: Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, California and the University of Central Florida, Cocoa, Florida – Liberal Arts (Engineering, Business Management, and the Social and Physical Sciences). INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS: AIDC 100 – a non-profit, self-sustaining, non-political organization of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) professionals and others who have significantly contributed to the growth and advancement of the industry. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION: –NSA Exception Service award – for actions taken on the part of the government to protect national secrets. –All of the employee awards offered by Rockwell International with the exception of the Presidents Award (highest company award), which I was nominated for on 3 separate occasions –NASA Group Achievement Award for significant contributions to the successful completion of the technology test bed pathfinder series verifying the capability of the Space Shuttle Main Engine Test Facility –NASA Group Achievement Award for verifying the readiness of the Dryden Space Flight Center Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Facility –NASA Group Achievement Award for outstanding achievements in the development, implementation, and operation of the Space Shuttle Configuration Management and other Management Systems –Manned Flight Awareness Award For contributions related to the identification of flight hardware variances that could have resulted in flight failures. –Ten (10) NASA Project Awards for advancing the Nations success in aeronautics and space –The Astronauts Silver Snoppy Award For innovations that greatly enhanced flight safety and mission success –Eight (8) NASA Certificates of Recognition for creative development of technical innovations –The Federal Laboratory Consortium Award of Merit for Excellence in Technology Transfer –NASAs Directors Commendation for dedicated service to the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) –Inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame (2002) for development of remarkable products from space technology that provide significant benefit to mankind

Ian Russell

CODEWAY, LTD.
13 Telford Way – Codeway House Colchester, Essex, UK C049QP UK

(44) 1206-751300
ian.russell@codeway.com

At Norprint pioneered electronic label print and apply (matrix head on label applicator) about 1975, developed optical reader for price labels, then established Codeway in 1983 to complete development of thermal and thermal transfer printers, including first ribbon saving printer. o Holder of multiple patents o Provided direction to industry organizations over an extended period of time Director of AIM UK for 15+ years. Director of AIDC UK 2008-9. o Authored multiple papers and/or books on AIDC topics o Recognized expert on one or more AIDC technologies and, as a result, is a frequent speaker at tradeshows and conferences Initiated AIM UK Food Traceability project in 1997 which led to FoodTrace EU project. Codeway is active in automated labelling and process control (e.g. order bagging), identify/track/control systems for manufacturing and logistics, and specialised automotive systems (e.g. Codetrack vehicle distribution used a ports globally, and handheld vehicle inspection systems Recipient of industry awards as a direct result of contributions as outlined above. When I did my PhD in Operations Research (as it’s called in the States) back in the 60s, data was hard to come by. We had to make decisions on where to site retail distribution centres on some pretty flimsy evidence. So from one point of view Codeway and AIDC has been about capturing that data. In some areas, such as health care (I co-chaired AIM’s 2005 Leeds Armouries btw.) there’s still some way to go to make good use of it. At the outset we helped to establish EAN in the UK – in-store labelling at Keymarkets in Spalding the first UK supermarket to use barcodes (Norprint), in store barcode labelling at W H Smith (showed their stores full of LPs that never sold), and at Selfridges department store. A few fun things we’ve done overseas at Codeway: bar coding and counting sheep in Mecca for the Haj; identifying tobacco in Uzbekistan, tracking coal mining equipment and supplies in Kazakhstan. On the home front we’ve identified and tracked almost everything from blood to concrete. By way of background, I took a degree in mathematics and physics at Cambridge University in 1964 and a PhD in Operational Research at Lancaster University in 1967. A major difficulty in tackling retail, distribution and manufacturing problems in those days was lack of accurate data, and the cost of getting any useful data at all. In 1970 Norprint was the largest manufacturer in Europe of overprinting machines for identification labels, tickets and tags for industrial use and retail price marking. As development director I had to set policies for electronic label printing and point of sale data capture. The electronic label print and apply machine (matrix head on label applicator) developed by our engineers about 1975, and subsequently the optical reader for price labels developed with external expertise were part of this programme. When it became clear bar codes would prevail, we (i.e. Norprint) started to develop a thermal barcode printer for retail stores. There was a change of policy in 1983 so I acquired the development and set up Codeway to complete it and market the product. The first thermal printer went to W H Smith, the UK’s leading newsagent and bookseller, at their Portsmouth store, revolutionising their approach to stock control within 3 months – they found the store was full of items, especially LP vinyl records, that never moved. The next thermal machines went to Selfridges, the leading department store, to label 250,000 product lines, and the first thermal transfer printers, ribbon saving, went to retail suppliers, distribution companies, and the Royal Mail. Today, Codeway is active in automated labelling and process control (e.g. order bagging systems for QVC), identify/track/control systems for manufacturing and logistics, and specialised automotive distribution systems (e.g. Codetrack vehicle distribution used at ports globally for loading/unloading vehicles from inter continental RoRo ferries, and highly configurable handheld vehicle inspection with graphical damage “splats”). Director of AIM UK for 15+ years. While I was Chairman of AIM UK for the first time in 1997. Initiated TAUK, AIM UK Food Traceability project, in 1997 to apply auto-id technologies to the food chain in the wake of the BSE crisis which led to FoodTrace EU project. This helped to crystallise the framework for traceability now used in Europe and other countries. It provided a platform for the extension of UN CEFACT standards in the long term. The launch event for TAUK was at an AIM Conference with a parallel healthcare stream. Several of us in AIM UK, including you Brian, have been doing what we can promotedthe use of our technologies to the NHS, before and since then. It has been a long hard road. I wrote a submission to the Wanless Committee on behalf of AIM UK in 2002 and stepped in to co chair the second AIM UK Healthcare conference held at Leeds in 2005. We (i.e. AIM UK and I) arranged a follow up meeting between NHS agencies and medical device manufacturers which helped to pave the way for the introduction of GS1 standards to the NHS supply chain and bar coded wristbands. We now need to write to Parliamentary Select Committee on Healthcare following their recent report on Patient Safety and their comments on slow progress with bar codes. Director of AIDC UK 2008-9. While AIM UK was the main sponsor the Centre of Excellence in Halifax, I only became a director in its second year. My main contribution has been to focus attention on the scope to use AIDC, along with mobile data (Mobility) and front line process workflow re-engineering, to improve productivity in public services. This is a work in progress. As a final point, I’d point to the huge opportunities there now are to make intelligent use of the data that AIDC technologies generate.

Rick Schuessler

SCHUESSLER, Rick
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC. Holtsville, NY 11742

631-213-1654
Schuess.Rick@gmail.com

Rick Schuessler is a Senior Director of Engineering at Motorola Solutions (formerly Symbol Technologies), based in Holtsville, NY. His responsibilities included managing the software engineering group that designs the decode algorithms used in all of Symbols laser-scanning and imaging products. Rick also had responsibilities in various Symbology areas (bar code design, encoding and printing, and decoding research). Rick is the principal inventor of several bar code symbologies, including MicroPDF417, TLC39, and Scanlets”, and is a co-inventor of the EAN/UCC Composite Symbology. MicroPDF417 is a laser-scannable stacked-barcode symbology capable of encoding 60 or more data characters in a 1/4 by 1/4 square. TLC39 is a composite symbology that Rick designed for the Telecommunications Industry. TLC39 combines a Code 39 symbol, encoding a part number (for items such as plug-in boards at central switching stations) with a linked MicroPDF417 symbol encoding a serial number and other optional information. Rick also designed a variation of MicroPDF417, which was chosen by the Uniform Code Council to be their new two-dimensional supplement to U.P.C. symbols and other linear symbols. This new type of barcode (known as the EAN.UCC Composite Symbology) will be printed on pharmaceuticals, consumer electronics, and other small items, giving scanners the ability to read the expiration date, lot number, and other information about product and container contents. The AIM International Symbology Specification for MicroPDF417 was published in 1998, and the spec for the UCC.EAN Composite Symbology was published by AIM in 1999. In 2001, the Telecommunications Industry Forum published a product marking guideline that specifies TLC39 and MicroPDF417 as the 2D symbologies to be used in Telecommunications. In 2001, Rick developed Scanlets” for AirClic Inc, to facilitate a direct link between the printed page and a specific Internet page. A Scanlet” is a linear symbol integrated with AirClics double-arrow logo, designed for inclusion within a paragraph of text, as well as in advertisements. Rick represents Symbol Technologies at all of the major U.S. and international technical forums on barcode technology and the Automatic Identification industry. He has been a member of AIM USAs Technical Symbology Committee (TSC) since 1992 (and was Chair of the committee for 1995, and again for 2002), and joined the international committees responsible for global standards for data carriers (the ISO/IEC SC31 WG1) and for conformance (the ISO/IEC SC31 WG3) at their inception several years ago. Rick was invited to join the EAN.UCCs Global Symbology Committee (formerly known as the UCCs STAC committee) in 1997. He is also actively supporting various industry groups (such as the USPSs Mailing Industry Task Force) who are in the process of designing their next generation of application specifications. During his tenure on the TSC, Rick led the development of the ECI protocol, which defines a standardized, symbology-independent method for signaling international character sets and other high-level interpretations of barcode data. The ECI protocol has since been incorporated into PDF417, MaxiCode, Data Matrix, and all subsequent 2-D symbology specifications. He has designed a series of ECI-based compaction methods for the efficient encodation of EDI data. AIM is currently reviewing the specification for the ECI protocol, and is expected to publish it in 2003. Before his promotion to his current position, Rick directed Symbol Technologies Engineering Quality department. This group develops tools and standards for product development and for the assessing of product and process quality, with special emphasis on measuring scanning and decoding performance. Before he became Director of Engineering Quality at Symbol, Rick managed the Software Engineering department. In this position he was responsible for the definition and development of the decode algorithms and all the other software in Symbol Technologies’ decoder products. Rick received a BS in Psychology from Vassar College in 1974, and later received an Electrical Engineering degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. After several years in the music industry as an audio engineer, he joined Symbol Technologies in 1983. Rick holds a number of patents in the fields of symbology design and decoding.

Frank Sharkey

GS1 US
1009 Lenox Drive Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

609-620-4557
609-273-3759 (m)
frank.sharkey@gs1.org

Frank Sharkey is Technical Director AIDC at GS1 US (Formerly the Uniform Code Council) and has been involved with automatic identification and data capture since 1965. Frank started his career serving as Chief Programmer in the Physics Department of Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Institute of Technology). In this position, he was responsible for a team of software engineers developing High Energy Physics applications, which included automatic identification and data capture of experimental measurements. He also served as a consultant to the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion research group (OTEC) headed by Professor Clarence Zener Frank moved from the University to work for Westinghouse Air Brake and after a short time heading a software applications group, developing real time railroad tracking and control systems, Frank moved on to assume the position of General Manager of the Symbol Systems business unit of Matthews International Corporation. Symbol Systems manufactured precision bar code symbol film-masters that were used in the production of printing plates. While at Symbol Systems, Frank broadened the product line by adding capacity to produce any standard symbology and custom symbols. He created a measurement and analysis team that provided comprehensive reports on the quality of printing processes. This service was used by the Distribution Symbology Study Group (DSSG) to create the first specifications for direct printing of bar code symbols on corrugated containers (latter to become the ANSI MH10 Standard; Material Handling Bar Code Case Symbols on Unit Loads and Transport Packages. The service was also used by the US Department of Defense to analyze printed samples for the LOGMARS program. He added bar code symbol label printers and specialty printers to the product line. Working with a leading manufacturer of bar code symbol scanners, he led in the design and development of a laser based bar code symbol verifier, the Micro Chek III. Frank then moved to Accu-Sort Systems accepting the position of Special Programs Manager. The duties associated with this position were varied and included sales and marketing, operations, R&D, and administration. Major functions included the management of the staff of software engineers that produced turnkey data acquisition and control products and systems. Additionally, he managed Accu-Sorts Federal Systems Program where he monitored solicitations, marketed directly to DoD organizations, formed partnerships with prime contractors, developed proposals and represented Accu-Sort at negotiations. After leaving Accu-Sort Systems, Frank became an independent AIDC consultant as the principal for Psi Star Associates. Psi Star Associates maintained a close working relationship with Quad II (Rick Bushnell) providing technical support for Quad II clients. During this time, Frank maintained ties with Accu-Sort Systems providing a variety of special services which included, customer technical training, technical documentation, system design, project management, project supervision, and QA management. Frank Sharkey currently serves as Secretariat to ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 31 for Information Technology, Automatic Identification and Data Capture. In addition, he manages the GS1 US interest in the development of standards and guidelines relating to the GS1 General Specifications. He is the principal representative for GS1 US for: Working Groups 1 through 5 of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC 31, AIM ADC1 and its associated TGs 1 through 5, where he chairs ADC1 TG3, AIM, AIM TSC (former vice-chair and chair), AIM REG, ANSI MH10 (US TAG to ISO TC 122 Packaging), ANSI, ANSI MH10.SC8 (Coding and Labeling of Unit Loads), INCITS Executive Board (US TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1, INCITS Standards Policy Board and INCITS Standards Development Board, ANSI INCITS E22 (RFID for Item Authentication and Chain of Custody), and ISO JWG 122/104 (Supply Chain Applications of RFID). Within GS1 US he serves on the AIDC TDT (bar coding technologies), EPC TDT (RFID technologies), and as co-chair of the Global Symbology Committee (GSC). Frank has a long time involvement with AIM which goes back to the time that AIM was a product section of the Material Handling Institute. Over this time he has served in several capacities including: Member of the Board of Directors, Member of the Executive Committee, Chairman of the Membership Committee, and Co-Chairman of the Scan – Tech Education Committee. Other achievements in automatic identification include: Member of the Distribution Symbology Study Group: This organization formulated the first set of national guidelines for coding and printing bar code symbols on shipping containers. Results were published as: Recommended Practices for the Uniform Case Symbol, Transport Case Symbol. Member of the American National Standards Institute Committee MH10.8 that published the ANSI Standard: Material Handling Bar Code Case Symbols on Unit Loads and Transport Packages. Publications include: Printing Readable Bar Codes, Society of Manufacturing Engineers Technical Paper; Applying Industrial Bar Codes, contributing author, edited by Dr. Thomas V. Sobczak; Automated Distribution Techno-Economic Forecast, Co-author with Milt Field, Graphic Arts Technical Foundation. Frank Sharkey received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics (minor in mathematics) from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Kevin Sharp

ACCURATE INFORMATION
2615 E. Drachman Tucson, AZ 85716

520-326-2244
kevinsharp@accurateinfo.info

Kevin Sharp is a consultant and educator specializing in automatic data collection technologies and their business ramifications. He is senior technical editor of Supply Chain Systems magazine, where he provides technical oversight and product review services. He also writes a monthly column for system integrators. Kevin is President of Accurate Information, Inc. in Tucson, Arizona. Accurate Information provides education services to technology users, and product design and review services to manufacturers seeking to improve the acceptance of their products. The company maintains consulting practices in the AIDC and mobile data markets. He is a polished, enthusiastic speaker, author of hundreds of technical and business articles on AIDC, and author of Automatic Identification: Making it Pay published by Van Nostrand Reinhold. MANAGEMENT BACKGROUND Kevin managed the data collection product line for Burr-Brown in Tucson, AZ. His duties included workstation specification, software design, and project management. He was also responsible for the integration of other automatic technologies into Burr-Brown’s data collection network. Kevin guided Supply Chain Systems (then ID Systems magazine) through a critical transition from a traditional paper-only publication to their current dual-media model, merging web content with traditional full-color physical delivery. TECHNICAL BACKGROUND Kevin Sharp is a registered Professional Electrical Engineer (Arizona). An experienced hardware designer, Kevin’s credits includes microprocessor system design, signal conditioning circuit development, and communication network component design. He has experience designing data acquisition systems for logistics applications, safety control and data collection systems for energy companies, and industrial automation equipment for the process industries. INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS Kevin is a past member of the Technology Symbology Committee of the Automatic Identification Manufacturers. This body writes the standards for the most common industrial bar code symbologies and acts as a technical resource for organizations around the world. ” Engineer and systems designer for Burr-Brown (now Intelligent Instrumentation, Inc.) for 5 years ” AIDC product line technical manager for Burr-Brown for an additional 5 years ” Seminar presenter to the Air Force (advanced topics in AIDC) for 6 years ” Numerous presentations at Scan Tech and ID Expo, recently focusing on RFID topics ” Author of over 300 technical and business articles ” Author of Automatic Identification: Making it Pay published by Van Nostrand Reinhold ” President of Accurate Information, Inc. for 14 years, with practices in AIDC and mobile data technologies.

Joe Sheppard

1931-2006

Joseph Jackson Sheppard, Jr. a resident of Battle Lake and Los Angeles, CA. died Sunday, November 19, 2006 at his home in California. Joe was born on February 25, 1931 in Blooming Grove, TX the son of Joseph J. and Freddie (Barham) Sheppard. He graduated from High School in Frost, TX in 1947. He attended Baylor University in Waco, TX, where he completed a B.A. in Physics and received an M.S. in Fluid Dynamics from the University of Minnesota. On February 6, 1953 he married Alma Olson of Battle Lake, MN. During their married years they resided in Minnesota, New York and California retiring to Battle Lake in 2000. Joe was a scientist and businessman. He was a senior engineer at the University of Minnesota Rosemount Aeronautical Laboratories from 1952-56 and a staff scientist at the Convair Scientific Research Laboratory in San Diego, CA from 1957-62. From 1962-67 he was a lecturer in Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he completed his Ph D in Thermodynamics. He was a consultant to the RAND Corporation from 1963-67 when he joined their professional staff. His bio-engineering research activities dealt primarily with the human visual mechanism, stroke prevention and cardiac arrhythmia. He authored a book on human color perception in 1968. In 1971 he formed a company, CardioDynamics, where he developed and implemented the equipment, data collection, processing protocols and clinical interpretation standards for a noninvasive procedure known as dynamic electrocardiography. Now called the Holter EKG monitor, it is considered a standard procedure today. Cardio was acquired in 1978 and Joe left in 1979 to form a new company called XICO where he worked in magnetic stripe technology and manufacturing (automatic identification and data collection). In 1999, he was a recipient of the Dilling Award for contributions to the AIDC industry and was a member of the AIDC 100. Joe?s interests include writing, focusing in the areas of science and religion. He also enjoyed cooking for family and friends, his specialty being Mexican cuisine. Together with his wife, Alma he wrote a food column for the Fergus Falls Daily Journal. He also compiled and published a collection of Sheppard/Olson family recipes, called the Casa Alma Cookbook. He was a loving and giving person, to both family and friends. He was a member of the Battle Lake First Lutheran Church where he served on the church council. Joe was preceded in death by his parents, a brother Jack Sheppard and his daughter, Susan. He is survived by his wife, Alma; children, Joseph J. Sheppard III and wife Brenda; grandchildren, Joseph IV (JJ), Heather, Jackie and Julie, his daughter, Mary (Peter) McCaffrey, grandchildren Susan and Jonathan, and son Peter. He is also survived by two great-grandchildren.

Akira Shibata

DENSO WAVE, INC.
M/S 1370, 1-1, Showa-cho Kiriya-shi Aichi-ken, 448-8661 JAPAN

81-566-61-3824
akira.shibata@denso-wave.co.jp

Akira Shibatas Career 1971 joined NIPPONDENSO Co., Ltd. (current DENSO CORPORATION). engaged in the designing of automotive control devices. 1982 engaged in the designing of barcode readers. 1995 – 1998 AIM Inc. Technical Committee member. 1995 – 2002 AIM Japan Technical Committee Chairman. 1996 JEITA (JEIDA) AIDC Committee Chairman. 1997 – 1998 AIM Inc. Board of Directors member. 2001 assigned to DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED. DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED was established in October 2001, combining DENSO’s Industrial Systems Product Division and two DENSO group companies, SYSTEMKIKI CO.,LTD. and DENSO SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Present Chief Engineer, Automatic Data Capture Division Accomplishment 1971 – 1979 engaged in the development of controllers for Antilock Brake System, Electronic Fuel Injection, air conditioner, and cruise control system for automobile. 1980 – 1982 engaged in the development of the first POS system in Japan. It was in collaboration with Seven-Eleven, TEC, and DENSO. 1981 engaged in the development of the handheld barcode scanner with MOS sensor and lamp lighting. 1982 engaged in the development of CCD sensor. 1984 engaged in the development of the handheld barcode scanner with CCD sensor and LED lighting. engaged in the development of CMOS sensor. 1985 engaged in the development of the world’s first all-in-one handheld barcode scanner with CMOS sensor. 1986 engaged in the development of the all-in-one handheld barcode scanner with CCD sensor. 1987 engaged in the development of the high-resolution CCD scanner that can read high resolution barcodes. 1989 engaged in the development of the barcode handheld terminal with CCD sensor. 1991 engaged in the development of the downward lighting laser scanner. 1994 – 2002 engaged in the effort for diffusion and education of QR Code. accomplished the standardization of QR Code in Japan, Korea, China and Vietnam. 2001 engaged in the standardization activity for RFID. Award 1999 received recognition from the AIM Inc. for leadership and service in the global AIM network. 2002 received the Accomplishment Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan together with his colleagues because of the diffusion of QR Code. Contribution IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31 Japan Committee, chairman ISO/IEC JTC1 Japan Committee, member JEITA (Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association) AIDC Committee, chairman

Glenn Spitz

WEBSCAN, INC.
1254 Sherman Dr., Unit 1 Longmont, CO 80501

(303) 485-6811
gspitz@webscaninc.com

Glenn Spitz is the founder and president of Webscan, Inc. a manufacturer of ANSI and ISO/IEC-compliant in-line and table-top bar code verifiers for both linear and 2D symbologies. Prior to founding Webscan in 1995, Spitz worked for 10 years at Symbol Technologies (now a subsidiary of Motorola), a leading manufacturer of bar code readers, where he was in charge of decode algorithm development. Spitz has been personally involved in standards development with AIM, GS1 and ISO since the early 1990s. He is currently the Project Editor of six ISO standards* and a regular contributor to the AIM TSC and the BCID committee of GS1. He is a member of the U.S. TAG to ISO/IEC SC31 and a regular delegate to international SC31/WG1 workgroup meetings (the workgroup which controls the six documents of which he is the Project Editor). Webscan hosted the most recent SC31/WG1 meeting (July 2010) in Boulder, CO. Glenn Spitz has been a key innovator in the development of 2D bar code verification methodology and technology. He holds several patents related to bar code verification, including the 2001 patent entitled Self-contained scanning and verifying apparatus with movably mounted scanning unit which enabled the first controlled verification of stacked symbologies such as PDF417. The related product was recognized as the one of the Russ Adams Top 10 of Frontline Expo 2000 for being the first raster verifier. In total, he is the inventor or co-inventor on nearly 20 U.S. and foreign patents related to bar code reading and/or verification. Spitz has published articles in magazines such as Flexo, the publication of the Foundation of the Flexographic Technology Association and Package Printing. In addition to countless customer training seminars, Glenn also has delivered educational presentations at trade shows including those shown in the following table. Year Location Title/Subject 1996 FFTA Forum, New Orleans High Speed Online Bar Code Verification 2001 Frontline Solutions Expo / TCIF Symposium Telecom applications of Linked and Stacked Bar Codes 2003 Eastpack, Javitz New York City Hospital Unit Dose Application of Reduced Space Symbology 2003 DoD Part Marking AIT Forum Sponsored by AF AIT PMO and DOD Logistics AIT Office, St. Louis MO The Mechanics of Verification (Labels and Direct Part Marking) 2005 AIT Forum, St. Louis 2D Bar Code Verification Standards 2007 UPU, Paris, France Bar Code Verification for Postal Applications 2008 Interphex, Tokyo Japan Specifications and Validation Methodology for RSS (GS1 DataBar) symbology Glenn holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from SUNY Stony Brook, and he is active in the Alumni activities of both Universities and currently participates in Career Development activities with undergraduates at the State University of Colorado at Boulder.

Ray Stevens

February 14, 1931 – February 20, 2013

Wayland: Ray Stevens of Bent Ave. died peacefully on Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at Wayland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Ray was born in Gardner, MA on February 14, 1931, a son of the late Dorothy (Lowe) and Paul L. Stevens. Paul later remarried to Thelma (Caldon) Stevens who helped raise him. Ray leaves his wife Mary Elizabeth (Rodman) Stevens, fondly known as Liz. He is also survived by his brother, Robert Stevens and his wife, Shirley, of both Longview, WA and Kamuela, HI. Ray is survived by his former wife Ann L. Chandler and four of their children: Dorothy Knight and her husband, Scott, of Tucson, AZ, David Stevens and his wife, Betty, of Denver, CO, Loring Stevens of Scituate, MA and Lincoln Stevens of Andover, MA. Their son Andy Stevens predeceased him; Andy lived with his wife, Cindy, in Merritt Island, FL. Ray is also survived by Lizs four children: Ann Reimels and her husband Bill, Tom Upjohn and his wife Peggy, and Bill Upjohn and his wife, Beth, all of Manchester CT, and Richard Upjohn and his wife, Nicole, of Northbridge, MA. He is also survived by sixteen grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and other family members. Ray was a graduate of Gardner High School (1949) and the Coast Guard Academy (1953). He was assigned to ocean station duties on the Castle Rock and the Humboldt in Boston until he left the service in 1955. He earned his masters degree from Northeastern in 1961. Ray worked at Raytheon in Wayland, Mass in the early 1950s for about 10 years designing shipboard fire controlled radar. Then, he joined Instrument Associates, Arlington, MA as a Sales Representative in the field of high technology, later becoming VP and General Manager. He worked there until 1970, when he started his own business, TEMA Incorporated representing well known manufacturers, such as; Tally, Facit typewriters and Interface Mechanisms, a dual printing and photo type set company based in Mount Lake Terrace, WA (later known as Intermec). In 1974, while representing Intermec as a Master Distributor, he was involved with development and symbology standardization, including Ames alpha-numeric barcode and most notably creating Code 39, along with Dr. David Allais. Code 39 was eventually adopted as the non-retail industry barcode standard and was selected by the Dept. of Defense under Logmars. TEMA was the first independent Distributor in the country to be acquired by Intermec in 1986. Ray remained as a Sales Consultant with Intermec working on various special projects through 1990. During his retirement years, Ray also worked as an independent business owner in the consumer goods industry. Ray had a lifelong passion for swimming and sailing honed in his youth as a Sea Scout and in the Boy Scouts attending summer camp programs. He sailed in the Newport to Annapolis Race on the Academy Yacht, Arion, in June, 1953, and he sailed in Hopetown, Bahamas Islands as a bare charter twice with his wife and another couple. He was also stationed on the US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, a 295 full sail training vessel still in service today. Beginning in 1966, he sailed weekends with the Cochituate Yacht Club for 26 years, and sailed in Sunfish regattas competitively throughout New England during his time. Ray was devoted to his church and his family. He worked tirelessly to support and care for his family, and he regularly attended and was active in the Community United Methodist Church in Cochituate for decades.

Chris Swindin

7 Greenways – North Ferriby E. Yorkshire, H14 3JN UK

44-14-8263-3848
chris@swindin.karoo.co.uk

After graduating from Oxford University in 1962 with a degree in Law, I entered the packaging industry and occupied a series of marketing management positions in it until 1981. My first involvement with AIDC was in 1977, when I obtained the UK’s first major contract to supply labels carrying bar codes, for the entire own brand range of a major retail chain that was introducing scanning. Later that year I published a booklet to assist companies planning to introduce bar codes on their products. In 1981 I joined Kings Town Photocodes Ltd., in Beverley (East Yorkshire, England), the UK’s first specialist bar code company, and became Sales and Marketing Director. After the foundation of AIM UK and AIM Europe in 1984, I chaired several committees including the Scan-Tech Europe Planning Committee which oversaw the successful conference and exhibition, and was a regular conference speaker and moderator at industry events. In 1988 I was elected Chairman of AIM UK. In 1990 I was invited to join the staff of AIM UK and AIM Europe, to manage the association’s technical activities, which very rapidly became dominated by standardisation initiatives; AIM was one of the organisations that lobbied for the formation of CEN TC 225, the European Standardisation Committee’s technical committee for bar coding, and I was appointed Convenor of the Working Group dealing with “Quality” standards. Here I was responsible for the development of EN 1635, the European version of ANSI X3.182, the standard for verification of bar code symbols, together with a range of other key standards which provided a standardised basis for measuring the performance of bar code printing, scanning and decoding, and verification equipment and software. I also played a leading role in TC 225’s WG1, where I prepared the first official European standards for bar code symbologies based on AIM’s standards. When the international AIDC standards committee ISO/IEC JTC1/SC31 was established in 1996 I was immediately appointed as Convenor of the “Conformance” Working Group and have led that activity since then. The various standards I had produced in TC 225 were accepted as the basis of the international work in this field and to date five of these have been published as International Standards covering linear bar code conformance and equipment/software performance; three further standards have been published in 2004 covering the conformance aspects of two-dimensional symbologies, which has involved the development of a completely new methodology based on image processing and published as ISO/IEC 15415. I also took an initiative to extend the principles which the bar code conformance work had established to Radio Frequency Identification devices, and several parts of ISO/IEC 18047 covering different air interfaces have now been published. I have continued as an active participant in the TC 225 “Symbologies” and SC31 “Data Carriers” WGs where I have been project editor for many of both the CEN and ISO symbology standards, both linear and two-dimensional. In 1998 I left AIM’s employment but have continued to work in the AIDC field as an independent consultant under contract to AIM Global, EAN International, UCC, EPCGlobal and major AIDC companies, specialising in AIDC standardisation, technical specifications, bar code and RFID quality and verification issues, training and specialised publications. I have also worked for a consortium of companies in the postal industry on the application of bar code quality standards to digital postage marks, resulting in an European (imminently International) standard and a Universal Postal Union standard. On the personal level, I have been married for 42 years, have three children and six grandchildren. I live in North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, England, and my interests are (when family ties permit) walking, music, researching family history and vacationing in France. October 11, 2004

Gregory Tanner

An early entrant to the world of AIDC in 1984, Greg laid the foundations for several barcoding businesses amongst the manufacturer community in Europe and drove the evolution of some of the leading brands in the industry – most notably Zebra Technologies, Toshiba TEC, Esselte Meto (Checkpoint Systems) and Vocollect. He was Global Channel Sales Director for Datalogic for a period and most recently VP Global Alliances for NiceLabel. AIDC is in his DNA!

An early participant in the AIM organisation in Europe serving on the AIM UK Board through much of the 1980s and ‘90s Greg worked tirelessly for the promotion and development of barcode adoption across many industries, especially in the early days of market growth.

Greg’s commitment to developing ‘the channel’ and trustworthiness in business partnerships enabled so many ‘barcode VARs’ (value added resellers) to become established and to invest with confidence in their own businesses. The result is that there are AIDC resellers and integrators across the European market especially, who owe their foundations and early growth to the confidence that Greg had in them in building the huge and diverse AIDC industry that exists today.

Building these relationships not only facilitated rapid industry growth, but it launched countless careers in a multitude of companies. Now the maturity of the industry is established it’s important to not overlook the impact of those early couple of decades where Greg’s influence with other early pioneers that made a transformative difference to so many businesses and careers – both directly and indirectly – across the European and Middle East regions.

Career Highlights:

Esselte Meto in 1983 – formed the ‘Electronics Products Division’ in the UK moving the company away from its traditional retail price-marking base and into barcode printers, retail weighing and coding.

Toshiba TEC – Established the company’s Barcode Printer Division in 1988 growing a $7m business in two years

Zebra Technologies EMEA – as employee #1 in November 1990 and grew a $100m business over 10 years as VP and MD establishing Zebra as the dominant Brand in the Printer market with subsidiaries and operations across the EMEA region. Integrating Eltron and Comtec acquisitions into the organisation

Datalogic – as Director Channel Sales based in Bologna, Italy in January 2001 reorganised their global Quality Partner Network and to add a further layer of ‘Accredited Resellers’

Vocollect International – as with Zebra began the company’s European operations as VP&GM. A similar pattern of growth occurred – almost $50m over 6 years from 2002-8 with pan-European operations

2008-13 – Engagements with Savoye Logistics, Channel Dynamics and Bar Code Systems UK

NiceLabel – joined some former colleagues as a partner in this Slovenia based software company that became the European leader and world number 2 for barcode labelling and marking software. The company grew in substantial double-digit levels over 8 years until being acquired in late 2020 by Riverside Partners, the private equity owners of Loftware combining the two brands to establish by far the largest brand by revenue and presence globally in the industry for both labelling and direct marking software and for packaging artwork management. He remains an investor in the company which also now owns PrisymID

Greg believes that his Membership of the AIDC 100 reflects not just his personal influence and leadership in the industry but is testimony to the legions of AIDC specialists who have since entered the industry through his advocacy and support. He is proud to be amongst the company of other industry luminaries in the AIDC100.

Vic Verma

LOCKHEED MARTIN – STRATEGIC VENTURE DEVELOPMENT
3130 Zanker Road San Jose, CA 95134

408-712-3333
vikram.verma@lmco.com

Currently President Strategic Venture Development, Lockheed Martin Corp., Vic Verma led a management buyout of Savi in 1999 from Raytheon. Since then, Savis valuation has increased more than 2,000 percent on revenue growth of more than 500 percent. Under Mr. Vermas direction, Savi has expanded its network software platform and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) product solutions on sales to a growing diversity of government and commercial customers worldwide. He was a co-founder of the company in 1989, and has held a succession of progressively responsible technical, management and executive positions since then. As COO, he was instrumental in negotiating the acquisition of the privately held company in 1995 to Texas Instruments. In 1997, the unit was sold to Raytheon. Mr. Verma holds eight patents, and early in his career his DF/Tag product was recognized as the Most Innovative Technology Developed by a Small Business by the White House Office of Science and Technology. His patents include: –Efficient Electrically Small Loop Antenna; issued 1/16/1996 –Method and Apparatus for Locating Items; issued 6/18/1996 –Dual Polarization Crossed Loop Antenna; issued1/7/1997 –Communication System for Tags; issued 6/17/1997 –Communication System for Tags; issued 11/11/1997 –Efficient Electrically Small Loop Antenna; issued 6/16/1998 –Personal Messaging system; issued 10/26/1999 –Small Omni-Directional Slot Antenna; issued 4/18/2000 He has won numerous industry accolades, including being named as one of 40 Technology Innovators by the World Economic Forum. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Florida Institute of Technology, where he earned his undergraduate degree and now sits on its Board of Trustees. He also is on the Board of Governors of the National Center to the Asia Pacific Economic Coalition (APEC). He earned an M.S.E. degree from the University of Michigan, and an Advanced Engineers degree from Stanford University, both in electrical engineering. He also completed all the coursework and passed the qualifying exam for his Ph.D. candidacy in electrical engineering from Stanford University before leaving to join Savi. In addition, he attended the executive management program for CEOs at Harvard Business School, the AEA Executive Institute at Stanford University, and the Financial Management Program at the University of California-Berkeley.

Richard Vossel

9050 Barnes Road Toano, VA 23168

757-741-8754
rvossel@gmail.com

Rich Vossel started his career in the early 1970s as an active duty Air Force Avionics Technician and a Computer Programmer. While in the military, he completed his bachelors degree part-time in Mathematics and Computer Science. After the Air Force, he became a lead programmer for the System Development Corporation (now a part of Unisys Corp) developing protocols for communications between military computer systems. In the mid-1980s he accepted a position at SYSCON Corporation (now a part of Northrop Grumman) as the Technical lead for the LOGMARS tactical program. Rich promoted the use of multiple Auto ID technologies to solve complicated logistical problems within the DoD and as such has developed the concept for, designed and lead the implementation of many prototype systems to prove the value of the technology in the military. During Desert Storm, he convinced the Army to test the used of RFID and memory devices to track the movement of ammunition in theater and as it returned to the US after the war completed. Rich directed the effort that literally built the system from scratch while on the ground in Saudi Arabia. The prototype, based on his design, was successful and became the foundation for the DoD In-Transit Visibility System which is currently the largest RFID system in the world. When the first active tags were developed for ITV, Rich was a beta tester for the prototypes and influenced the final hardware design. Later, he would refine the same process used in ITV to design and implement a tracking system for biomedical equipment within a hospital using RFID. This system was installed at over 20 Army hospitals world-wide. Based on his experience with the military deployment process in the Air Force and the Army during Desert Storm, Rich promoted using smart cards to streamline the process involving secure data about people. He designed and implemented a system called the Soldier Readiness Process which reduced the time to deploy from 2-3 days down to 12 hours for a typical Army company. This system was deployed in the Army and used for several years prior to the advent of the MARC card program which incorporated the process and expanded it to other services. Later Rich added the ability to use smart cards as a replacement for signatures when supplies were issued into the design of the Air Force Supply Asset Tracking System (SATS). This would be the first time that an electronic device would be used to legally replace a written signature in the DoD. Rich promoted the use of RFDC enabled bar code scanners and handhelds within the DoD to improve the business processes in the retail supply system by streamlining workflow and extending the reach of the system to the warehouse floor. He designed a prototype RFDC system for a standard Army supply point which reduced receipt processing time by almost 90%. The prototype became the bases for the Material Release Order Control System (MROCS) which is a part of every Army supply system and he later enhanced into SATS for the Air Force. With SATS, issue times decreased by 81%, receipt to stock time decreased by 77% and receipt rejects decreased by 52%. Today, SATS has been implemented as a standard system to all base supply centers. In 1999, SATS was awarded the Electronic Commerce Pioneer Award for its innovative use of auto ID. In the early days of RFDC, systems had a difficult time handling large numbers of handhelds communicating back to a single host. Rich developed the concept of an RF server to handle message traffic. He designed a multi-threaded process that allowed over 100 handhelds to operate smoothly in the same environment. The RF Server would become imbedded in many DoD computer systems including SATS. In 1999, Rich promoted the use of a Business Process Server (BPS) to handle the input and output of multiple auto ID technologies into different DoD systems. Rich designed the process to handle the input of 2D bar codes (written to MH10 format), active RFID tags (ITV system), optical memory cards (DoD manifest data) and standard LOGMARS bar coded data. The system would be enabled using RFDC to handheld devices and would have a unique interface to the standard DoD system which used existing processes thereby limiting the affect on the standard system. In a very short period of time, the BPS allowed the DoD to deploy auto ID to systems which did not have it before. A long advocate of standards, Rich was a charter member of the original INCITS T6 committee developing a standard for RFID for many years. He also participated with the DoD in efforts to develop bar code format standard (including MH.10 formats for 2D bar codes), DoD standards for storing data on RFID tags, and standards for storage of data on personal information carriers such as smart cards. Rich participates in DoD level meetings and provides guidance to all branches in the use of auto ID. He has been a long term speaker at such industry events as Frontline and DoD events such as the AF forums were he presents topics such as using multiple auto ID and the basic use of the technology. Rich is also a charter member of the AIM RFID Experts Group (REG) where he is still an active member. Rich has been employed by Savi Technology since 2000.

Joe Woodland

September 6, 1921 – December 12, 2012

Joe Woodland was a graduate student when he and a classmate, Bernard Silver, created a technology, based on a printed series of wide and narrow striations, that encoded consumer-product information for optical scanning. Their idea, developed in the late 1940s and patented 60 years ago this fall, turned out to be ahead of its time, and the two men together made only $15,000 from it. But the curious round symbol they devised would ultimately give rise to the Universal Product Code, or U.P.C., as the staggeringly prevalent rectangular bar code (it graces tens of millions of different items) is officially known. The bar code would never have developed as it did without a chain of events noteworthy even in the annals of invention etiology: Had Mr. Woodland not been a Boy Scout, had he not logged hours on the beach, and had his father not been quite so afraid of organized crime, the code would very likely not have been invented in the form it was, if at all. Norman Joseph Woodland was born in Atlantic City on Sept. 6, 1921. As a Boy Scout he learned Morse code, the spark that would ignite his invention. After spending World War II on the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, Mr. Woodland resumed his studies at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia (it is now Drexel University), earning a bachelors degree in 1947. As an undergraduate, Mr. Woodland perfected a system for delivering elevator music efficiently. His system, which recorded 15 simultaneous audio tracks on 35-millimeter film stock, was less cumbersome than existing methods, which relied on LPs and reel-to-reel tapes. He planned to pursue the project commercially, but his father, who had come of age in Boardwalk Empire-era Atlantic City, forbade it: elevator music, he said, was controlled by the mob, and no son of his was going to come within spitting distance. The younger Mr. Woodland returned to Drexel for a masters degree. In 1948, a local supermarket executive visited the campus, where he implored a dean to develop an efficient means of encoding product data. The dean demurred, but Mr. Silver, a fellow graduate student who overheard their conversation, was intrigued. He conscripted Mr. Woodland. An early idea of theirs, which involved printing product information in fluorescent ink and reading it with ultraviolet light, proved unworkable. But Mr. Woodland, convinced that a solution was close at hand, quit graduate school to devote himself to the problem. He holed up at his grandparents home in Miami Beach, where he spent the winter of 1948-49 in a chair in the sand, thinking. To represent information visually, he realized, he would need a code. The only code he knew was the one he had learned in the Boy Scouts. What would happen, Mr. Woodland wondered one day, if Morse code, with its elegant simplicity and limitless combinatorial potential, were adapted graphically? He began trailing his fingers idly through the sand. What Im going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale, Mr. Woodland told Smithsonian magazine in 1999. I poked my four fingers into the sand and for whatever reason I didnt know I pulled my hand toward me and drew four lines. I said: Golly! Now I have four lines, and they could be wide lines and narrow lines instead of dots and dashes. That consequential pass was merely the beginning. Only seconds later, Mr. Woodland continued, I took my four fingers they were still in the sand and I swept them around into a full circle. Mr. Woodland favored the circular pattern for its omnidirectionality: a checkout clerk, he reasoned, could scan a product without regard for its orientation. On Oct. 7, 1952, Mr. Woodland and Mr. Silver were awarded United States patent 2,612,994 for their invention a variegated bulls-eye of wide and narrow bands on which they had bestowed the unromantic name Classifying Apparatus and Method. But that method, which depended on an immense scanner equipped with a 500-watt light, was expensive and unwieldy, and it languished for years. The two men eventually sold their patent to Philco for $15,000 all they ever made from their invention. By the time the patent expired at the end of the 1960s, Mr. Woodland was on the staff of I.B.M., where he worked from 1951 until his retirement in 1987. Over time, laser scanning technology and the advent of the microprocessor made the bar code viable. In the early 1970s, an I.B.M. colleague, George J. Laurer, designed the familiar black-and-white rectangle, based on the Woodland-Silver model and drawing on Mr. Woodlands considerable input. Thanks largely to the work of Alan Haberman, a supermarket executive who helped select and popularize the rectangular bar code and who died in 2011, it was adopted as the industry standard in 1973. Mr. Woodland, who earned a masters in mechanical engineering from Syracuse University in the 1950s, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 1992. Last year, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. (Mr. Silver, who died in 1963, was inducted posthumously along with him.) Mr. Woodlands death, at his home in Edgewater, N.J., was confirmed by his daughter Susan Woodland. He is also survived by his wife, the former Jacqueline Blumberg, whom he married in 1951; another daughter, Betsy Karpenkopf; a brother, David; and a granddaughter. Today, bar codes sort the world, encapsulating the particulars of modern material culture the wide and the narrow of things in banded black and white. In retail establishments worldwide they are scanned at the rate of more than five billion a day. They keep track of books in libraries, patients in hospitals and nearly anything else, animate or in-, that will serve as an affixable surface. All because a bright young man, his mind ablaze with dots and dashes, one day raked his fingers through the sand. Per The New York Times article published on December 12, 2012 by MARGALIT FOX

Leadership Council

George Wright, IV

PIPS / PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION & PROCESSING SYSTEMS, INC.
436 East 87th Street, New York, NY 10128

212-996-6000
800-358-7226
gw4@pips.com

George Wright IV is a second-generation bar code expert with over 20 years of experience in the field. A tireless supporter of bar code standards and education, George is an active member of a number of bar code marking and labeling committees. His committee and standards experience includes: Book Industry Study Group (BISG) Book Industry Systems Advisor Committee (BISAC) Serial Industry Systems Advisor Committee (SISAC) Former Chair, Publishers Technical Advisory Subcommittee National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Committee CC: Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (Z39.56-1991) Committee AM: Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (Z39.56-1996) Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC) Automatic Identification Technology Committee Health Industry Bar Code Provider Applications Standard (ANSI/HIBC 1-1996) Health Industry Bar Code Supplier Labeling Standard (ANSI/HIBC 2-1997) Uniform Code Council (UCC) RSS/Composite Encoding/Imaging Work Group North American RSS/Composite Healthcare Implementation Team In the mid-1980s George worked with Dr. David Allais and Sprague Ackley to re-engineer the Intermec 8400/S35 series impact label printer printwheel and firmware to more efficiently produce 2-digit/5-digit U.P.C. add-on codes with up to 4 lines of OCR-A type above the bar code. His most significant contributions to publication bar coding came a few years later when he guided the adoption by SISAC of the then new Code 128 as the symbology standard for library journal bar coding (the first broad-based, global adoption of Code 128); invented the SICI-to-SISAC bar code data compaction/transcription algorithm for use in that application; and authored the authoritative SISAC Serial Item Identification: Bar Code Symbol Implementation Guidelines (2nd Edition, February 1992), a document which is still in industry-wide use today. His other significant contributions to the publication bar coding user community include conceiving and then collaborating with the manufacturer on implementation of data format validation for SISAC bar codes and EAN Bookland formats in the Quick Check brand print quality verifiers; and the development of the daily newspaper de facto standard coding structure for a 5-digit U.P.C. add-on. Subsequent to his work in the development of bar code standards and solutions for publishing, George has been especially active in promoting the use of bar codes in healthcare. He worked with the UCC and HIBCC to develop printable unit dose bar code marking and provided the bar code masters for the UCC-sponsored test of inline printing of RSS/Composite Symbology on unit dose packaging. He was also instrumental in developing and implementing the bar code data capture systems at St. Alexius Hospital in Bismarck, ND, an application that has become a show-piece for the efficiency and cost savings of bar code marking and scanning in the hospital setting. His current efforts are focused on implementing Reduced Space Symbology on pharmaceutical unit-of-use packaging in anticipation of the forthcoming FDA mandate for standardized bar codes on the immediate container of all Rx drugs, biologics and blood products. As part of this effort George has been actively working with the leading RSS/Composite verifier manufacturer to refine the verification capabilities of that companys verifier line and to develop third-party add-ons to compliment solutions based on their products. George is Vice President of Product Identification & Processing Systems, Inc. (PIPS), a Manhattan, NY-based bar code supplier founded in 1978. PIPS offers traditional film as well as digital bar code masters, bar code image generation software, pre-printed bar code tags and labels, on-demand printing system solutions and supplies and custom data collection solutions. The company is a recognized leader in bar code print quality analysis and a major supplier of verification equipment. PIPS also provides education, consulting and system implementation services to a wide range of markets. A frequent speaker and promoter of bar code technology, George has given educational seminars and presentations to a wide range of corporate and general audiences.

Al Wurz

Al Wurz passed away peacefully at his home on Marco Island, Florida surrounded by his family on April 26, 2022.

Al was born in 1931 in Dettingen an der Erms in southern Germany. Al emigrated to the United States in 1952 at the age of 20. Within six months, he was drafted into the US Army. After basic training, he was assigned to the US Army base in Stuttgart, Germany, less than one hour from his hometown!

After the Army, Al enrolled at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY under the GI Bill and graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering.

Al met the love of his life, Jane Rebmann, in 1955 and they married in 1959.

Al and Jane moved to Pennsylvania in 1960 where Al had his first engineering job at Philco. In 1967 he changed jobs and began work for General Atronics. General Atronics had a small division that developed the early (pre-laser) bar code scanners which used fluorescent light. General Atronics didn’t see a future in bar code scanning. Al seized the opportunity; he sold his home, moved into a small apartment with his family and used the proceeds to buy the six-person division. He bet his entire savings on a fledgling business because he had a vision of what it might become. His vision became reality in 1971 when Accu-Sort Systems, Inc. was born.

Accu-Sort’s initial customers were companies such as Kellogg’s and Campbell Soup Company. Accu-Sort, with Al at the helm, was at the forefront in the development of the laser bar code scanner. The innovation of the laser scanner opened up new opportunities. Over the next 30 years, Accu-Sort was the dominant supplier of industrial laser scanners to the USPS, FedEx, UPS, Walmart, Target and many more companies. In the 1990s, Accu-Sort was again at the forefront in the development of industrial camera-based bar code scanners; this technology is still in use today. Accu-Sort also designed and implemented significant systems for the United States Postal Service and won the prestigious USPS Quality Supplier of the Year (Manufacturing) Award in both 1992 and 2001. Only one is awarded each year by the USPS.

Al is widely considered a pioneer in the bar code scanning industry. He was a mentor and inspiration to countless employees who went on to become successful in the industry.

His many patents and new product ideas facilitated the expansion of an industry into the large market it is today. Under Al’s leadership, Accu-Sort grew to over 500 employees worldwide.

Al always had a zest for life. If you gave him a challenge, he would always respond passionately. Those who worked with him understood his passion and the results it produced. He always took care of his customers and would do anything to make sure his company’s products were superior.

It was the same with his personal life; he loved to stay active. He was an avid snow skier and skied well into his 80s. He water skied up to age 87. He was always up for a party and hosted many fun bashes at Accu-Sort and at his homes in Marco Island and Lake Wallenpaupack. He enjoyed singing German folk songs and usually finished with a shot of Kirschwasser for everyone. He maintained strong relationships with relatives in Germany and returned many times over the years as well as hosting friends and relatives here. In 2004 Al was given the Distinguished German-American of the Year Award by the German-American Heritage Foundation of the USA for his success as a German immigrant.

Al is survived by his wife Jane, sons Dave and Ron, their wives, Karen and Colleen and five grandchildren, Kristen, Caitlin, Colton, Joshua and Cayla. He enjoyed traveling and went on many adventures with his family to Europe, Africa and North and South America. His love of family was unconditional and he always put family before anything else. Nothing gave him more satisfaction than spending time with his family.

Leadership Council

Jane Yallum

THE CLARION GROUP
P.O. Box 456, Glenshaw, PA 15116

412-492-1699
jkyall@yahoo.com

Jane, Principal of The Clarion Group, Inc, has 20 years of experience in the Auto ID & RFID marketplace. Her expertise encompasses not-for-profit association management, trade show management (both SCAN-TECH and Frontline since 1985), business development, strategic alliance creation, and vertical market program development. Through her strong market intelligence, Auto ID application awareness and her extensive personal network, she has been able to create lasting partnerships and deliver educational programs for numerous market segments to include: Aerospace; Automotive; Consumer Electronics; CPG; Defense; Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals; Logistics; Manufacturing; Packaging; Telecommunications; Transportation and Retail. These programs have resulted in advocacy for Auto ID awareness and adoption. AIDC Background: 2004 Present: The Clarion Group, Inc. In 2004, Jane co-founded The Clarion Group – an events management firm specializing in producing Auto ID and RFID technology oriented conferences and events. With extensive experience in producing all aspects of events, from concept to on-site execution, we seek to help our clients create and market successful and profitable events to enhance influence, forward initiatives, and increase educational outreach through visibility opportunities and live event programming. 2004 Events included: –DoD RFID Summit (2 events) –Global Aviation RFID Forum (3 events) –Launch of EPCglobal US Conference –AIM Annual Membership Meeting –The FDA Bar Code Rule and RFID –The Channel Development Program –RFID in Transportation Logistics 2005 Events included: –DoD RFID Summit –Global Aviation RFID Forum –DoD UID Forums (2 events) –EPCglobal US –UConnect –Defense & Aerospace Conference at RFID Journal LIVE! 2006 Events Planned: –UID Forums (3 events) –UConnect –Global Aviation RFID Forums (2 events) –EPCglobal US Conference –Boeing Supplier RFID Education Forums (4 events) 2003: AIDC Consultant Clients included: –Advanstar Communications –AIM Global –AIM USA –U.S. Department of Defense 2003 Frontline Solutions Supply Chain Week created and managed the following programs: –AIDC Interactive Lab –RFID Summit –Defense Business Process Forum –Automotive Supplier Forum –Electronics Component, Product & Package Marking Forum –Aerospace & Industrial Forum –Logistics Security in the Supply Chain Forum –The Pharmaceutical Bar Code Summit –EPC Symposium –The Channel Connection –International Business Center Launch of The DoD RFID Industry Summit (Fairfax, VA) Worked with AIM on Strategic Initiatives 2001-2002: Advanstar, Director of Market Development and Director of Marketing 2001 Frontline Expo created and managed the following programs: –The RFID Summit –Global Aviation Bar Code Forum –Telecommunications Product Marking Symposium –DoD AIT Symposium –GM Supplier Forum –UPN Congress Frontline Solutions Europe created and managed the following: The Global Aviation Bar Code Forum (Amsterdam) 2002 Frontline Solutions Supply Chain Week created & managed the following programs: –AIDC Interactive Lab –Collaboration and the Automotive Aftermarket Symposium –General Motors Supplier Symposium –DoD Wireless Symposium –Covisint Manufacturing Issues and B2B Symposium –Aviation Parts Marking/Traceability Symposium –DoD AIT Sympoisum: Enabling Acquisition & Maintenance Excellence –Aerospace Collaborative Commerce Symposium –Telecom Product Marking & Logistics Symposium –RosettaNet Hi-Tech Symposium: Driving E-Business Standards on a Global Scale –The Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Bar Code Symposium –P&G Spec 2005 Material Label Symposium –Retail Channel: Linking Product to Electronic Information –UCCnet GlobalRegistry and Data Synchronization Primer & Benefits Symposium –Shipping, Receiving & Global Standards Symposium –UCCnet Implementation Symposium –XML: Roadmap to Success Symposium 1997-2000: AIDC Consultant Created multiple programs for the following Clients: –Reed Exhibition –AIM Global –AIM USA –Advanstar Communications –Symbol Technologies –Manhattan Associates 1985-1997: AIM USA Ms. Yallum’s career began at AIM in 1985 serving as the Event Administrator, supporting the Show Manager for the annual tradeshow, SCAN-TECH. In 1987, assumed the Show Manager role and held that role through 1993 when SCAN-TECH was sold. In that role, I was responsible for all event activities to include exhibit sales, conference management, operations, registration, marketing, partnerships and onsite production. From 1993-1997, I was responsible for Association membership and marketing efforts. During my entire time at AIM, I served as staff liaison and staff lead for a number of AIM Committees. Developed concept and managed implementation of: –AIDC Solutions Center –VAR Education Program –End-User membership program Managed the following events for AIM: –SCAN-TECH (86-97 Note: provided conference management for Reed Exhibition through AIM after 1993 when SCAN-TECH was sold) –Quick Response (93-97) –IQ Event (97-98) –All AIM organizational meetings

Members

Leadership Council

Chairman

David Allais

Chairman

David Allais

President

John Burnell

President

John Burnell

Treasurer

Jack Householder

Treasurer

Jack Householder

Chairman Emeritus

Richard Meyers

Chairman Emeritus

Richard Meyers

Leadership Council

Jane Yallum

Leadership Council

Jane Yallum

Leadership Council

John Hill

Leadership Council

John Hill

Leadership Council

Mark Reboulet

Leadership Council

Mark Reboulet

Leadership Council

George Wright, IV

Leadership Council

George Wright, IV

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Brian Marcel

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Brian Marcel

Leadership Council

Ray Delnicki

Leadership Council

Ray Delnicki

AIDC 100 Members

Sprague Ackley

Sprague Ackley

Russ Adams

Russ Adams

David Allais

Chairman

David Allais

Ed Andersson

Ed Andersson

Ed Barkan

Ed Barkan

Tina Barkan

Tina Barkan

Donna L. Barnes

Donna L. Barnes

Henri Barthel

Henri Barthel

Mike Baur

Mike Baur

Francis Beck

Francis Beck

Chet Benoit

Chet Benoit

Paul Bergé

Past Chairman

Paul Bergé

Kevin Berisso

Kevin Berisso

Robert Biederman

Robert Biederman

Dr. Richard Billo

Dr. Richard Billo

Charles (Chuck) Biss

Charles (Chuck) Biss

Mary Lou Bosco

Mary Lou Bosco

Tom Brady