Members
Leadership Council

Chairman
David Allais
PATHGUIDE TECHNOLOGIES
22745 – 29th Drive SE #150, Bothell, WA 98021
425-438-2899
888-627-9797
davida@pathguide.com
Dr. Allais is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of bar coding and automatic identification. As chief executive officer of Intermec Corporation from 1973 through September 1987, he built the company from a small startup into the leading manufacturer of bar code printing and reading equipment. Dr. Allais has created five bar code symbologies, including CODE 39. In 1989, Dr. Allais founded PathGuide Technologies, Inc. The company provides warehouse management systems, consulting, and systems integration services for industrial clients.

President
John Burnell
BURNELL REPORTS
440-793-8002
john@burnell.com
John Burnell has been working in the AIDC industry since 1990. He is best known for his tenure with the Automatic I.D. News and Frontline Solutions industry magazines and the ID Expo and SCAN-TECH conference and exhibition series. John served in a variety of editorial and conference development roles, including as editor-in-chief of Automatic I.D. News Europe and Frontline Solutions, and received the Bert Moore Excellence in Journalism Award from AIM. He and his publishing and event colleagues developed many different resources to educate potential end users in new markets about the benefits of AIDC technologies, and to help AIDC manufacturers develop new distribution channels. The team used its platform to provide non-promotional education material about the technologies, and to advocate for standardization and industry collaboration.
After leaving the publishing and events industry, John founded Burnell Reports to provide market education, market research, marketing support and public relations services to AIDC and other companies. In these roles John has collaborated with industry associations, AIDC vendors and end users on a variety of special educational topics including: how to meet labeling and marking standards for Airbus, Boeing, GM and other enterprises; Windows Mobile application development; biometrics; in-depth introductory conferences and publications about the EPC system and other RFID technology; understanding and using GS1 standards and more, and has contributed to several major market research reports.
Burnell Reports has expanded its scope and is heavily involved in the enterprise IT, healthcare transformation and international business services markets, in addition to serving AIDC clients.
John has a bachelor of science in journalism (BSJ) degree from Ohio University and resides in the Cleveland area.

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

Chairman Emeritus
Richard Meyers
DELTA SERVICES
221 Duncan Trail, Longwood, FL 32779
407-788-2289
meyers@cfl.rr.com
Richard B. Meyers was founder and President of Delta Services in 1988 and worked with Bar Coding and other Automatic ID Technologies for 42 years until his retirement in 2010. In retirement, and as Chairman Emeritus of the AIDC 100, Dick remains very active with that organization’s activities serving on the Leadership Council and Website committee. He is very supportive of some Missionary friends while developing and maintaining two of their websites and providing other guidance. Dick stays very busy on a daily basis with his own website and many computer design activities and finds it very difficult to stop at 5pm for some R&R! Prior to his retirement, Dick served in management positions that have been related to and aimed at the enhancement of the manufacturing and retailing industries. Mr. Meyers was a frequent speaker at industry trade shows. In addition to writing two books, he authored “The Ten Commandments of Bar Coding” plus many articles for world-wide publication. He spent many years working on various standards committees including the AIAG and FACT and has provided guidance to many individual companies and organizations for the purpose of creating their internal bar code standards. Dick spent nearly 25 years with NCR as a Systems Analyst, Marketing Director and Product Manager. He also was an Assistant-to-the President of an apparel manufacturer and spent 10 years with a major department store as a Buyer. He has been closely associated with senior executives on a worldwide basis and has conducted seminars in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and South Africa. In 1997, Dick was inducted as a charter member of the prestigious AIDC 100 organization. For nearly eight years, he served as Chairman of AIDC 100 and currently is a member of the Leadership Council. He has received numerous awards for meritorious service to the AIDC industry.

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

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.

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).

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.

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Brian Marcel
IBCS GROUP
230 Sheen Lane, London SW14 8LB
44-778-525-4743
brianmarcel@gmail.com
Brian started his career in AIDC in 1979 selling Film Masters made by Datronic in Germany for Reed International, a paper manufacturing company. He was soon head-hunted by Photographic Sciences Corp., as it was then in 1981, to be European Marketing Manager to try and introduce the total barcode system concept of supplying hardware and software and consumables from one supplier into Europe. When PSC went into Chapter 11 a year or so later he was made redundant and set up Bar Code Systems to supply Film Masters and verifiers in 1983. During the 80s Bar Code Systems started manufacturing their own Film Masters and barcode printed labels and moved into supplying a total barcode solution. Prior to the bringing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Brian had already made lasting business contacts in the former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Having spotted the Eastern Bloc as a potential long-term AIDC burgeoning market he devised a model to develop joint venture partners in this area. In 1990 he formed International Bar Code Systems to develop this area and is now undisputed market leader in Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria. Brian has served AIM since 1985 in various roles such as Chairman of AIM UK, President of AIM Europe, and President of AIM International. He was the driving force behind the AIM UK Education Committee and the AIM UK Parliamentary Liaison committee. Achievements include introducing the first ever post-graduate Master of Science degree in Automatic Identification and the first AIM technical support laboratory at the University of Keele. He undertook a protracted lobbying campaign with the Tory Government to raise the awareness of AIDC, culminating in the first ever British Government initiative in AIDC to raise awareness of the technology with SMEs (small and medium size enterprises). Brian has written a book about all this called Raise the Bar Change the Game turning it into a success primer for budding entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Brian lives with his wife Lisa and has a daughter Jessica adopted from Romania.

Leadership Council
Ray Delnicki
372 Harrington Way, Souderton, PA 18964
raydelnicki@hotmail.com
215-919-6171
Director, Global Standards, GS1 US
Ray Delnicki is a 19-year veteran with GS1 US and a six time winner of the GS1 US Values Award. Ray is a leader in the development of both GS1 and other international standards. He has served as the Secretariat for ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31, the ISO committee for AIDC technologies. He is the primary source for GS1 US to educate others on these standards. US. Prior to coming to GS1 US, Ray had extensive industry experience with the AIDC technology as a package engineering manager in the automotive aftermarket industry.
AIDC 100 Members

Sprague Ackley

Sprague Ackley
AIDC Technology Consultant
Napeequa Concepts
Stuart Island, WA
425-501-8995 (m)
Mr. Ackley is an expert in the RFID and bar code technologies and he is the named inventor on over 130 patents covering improvements in HF and UHF RFID, mobile computing, dimensioning and bar code technologies including decoding, symbologies, laser scanners, printers, verification, 2D imager scanners, systems and applications. Mr. Ackley is currently available for select consulting roles in process control, standards and expert patent litigation.
Mr. Ackley participates on the bar code technology committees of ISO, AIM and GS1 and has supported application standards development groups in the Automotive, Retail, Healthcare, Electronics, and Material Handling industries. Mr. Ackley is a recipient of the AIM Dilling Award, the AIAG Outstanding Achievement Award, the IEC 1906 Award and was inducted as a charter member of the AIDC100.
Mr. Ackley’s educational background includes an undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and a master’s degree in physics from Stony Brook University.

Russ Adams

Russ Adams
ADAMS COMMUNICATIONS
3008 Mosby Street, Arlington, VA 22305
703-548-8261
russadam@adams1.com
Russ Adams has written about bar code and other automatic identification technologies since 1983. He was Editor-in-Chief of ID Systems Magazine (no longer published and formerly called Bar Code News) from 1983 to 1987, and was Technical Editor of Frontline Solutions Magazine (no longer published and formerly called Automatic ID News) from 1987 to 2000. He has written three books about bar code (Reading Between The Lines, The Black and White Solution and Sourcebook of Automatic Identification And Data Collection). In addition, Mr. Adams worked as a Patent Examiner and Supervisor at the United States Patent & Trademark Office for 34 years prior to his retirement in June 2004. He is a Registered Patent Agent (Registration No. 56,134) and is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office in patent cases. Mr. Adams has been an expert witness in patent litigations and specializes in invalidating patent claims. In 1975, Mr. Adams built an Altair 8800, one of the first personal computers (even before Apple and the IBM PC) and has been active in personal computing. He was a hardware and software reviewer for InfoWorld and has written more than 300 articles in various computer publications. In 1979, Mr. Adams was technical program chairman for the National Computer Conference 1979’s Personal Computing Festival in New York City (a time when Bill Gates answered his own phone when called to participate). Mr Adams was an early adopter of the Internet and obtained one of the first non-university accounts in 1994. On November 1, 1994, he started BarCode 1® (http://www.BarCode-1.com) as a free source of information about bar code technology on the Internet. He was publisher of “The Adams Chronicle”, an industry newsletter, for 10 years. He has a Bachelors of Science degree in Physics from the University of Florida.

David Allais

Chairman
David Allais
PATHGUIDE TECHNOLOGIES
22745 – 29th Drive SE #150, Bothell, WA 98021
425-438-2899
888-627-9797
davida@pathguide.com
Dr. Allais is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of bar coding and automatic identification. As chief executive officer of Intermec Corporation from 1973 through September 1987, he built the company from a small startup into the leading manufacturer of bar code printing and reading equipment. Dr. Allais has created five bar code symbologies, including CODE 39. In 1989, Dr. Allais founded PathGuide Technologies, Inc. The company provides warehouse management systems, consulting, and systems integration services for industrial clients.

Ed Andersson

Ed Andersson
770 Horse Thief Lane, Durango, CO 83101
970-259-4294 (H)
970-259-4295 (O)
edandersson@aol.com

Ed Barkan

Tina Barkan

Tina Barkan
DUNE SYSTEMS
3 Enchanted Woods, Miller Place, NY 11765
631-897-1709 (m)
tina.barkan@dunesystems.com

Donna L. Barnes

Donna L. Barnes
608 Zachary Way, Webster, NY 14580
585-872-4408
ddb6081@gmail.com
Mrs. Barnes has an extensive experience in bar coding from symbology specifications, verification and scanning. During her 30 plus years with PSC/Hand Held Products, she has held various positions in Product Management, Marketing and Customer Service. Mrs. Barnes is and has been actively involved with AIM, AIAG, HEDIC, HIBCC and UCC over her years in the AIDC Industry. She has also been involved with ANSI X3 and MH10. She has attended SUNY, RIT and Monroe Community College. Prior presentations on bar code quality include: ID Expo, Scan Tech, AutoTech, HEDIC, HIBCC, Ohio University and Michigan State University, School of Packaging, previous ECCC seminars, AIM Technology sessions, IMI conferences, EFR seminars and Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores conferences.

Henri Barthel

Henri Barthel
EPC GLOBAL GS1
Blue Tower, Ave.Louise 326, bte10, Brussels, B-1000 BELGIUM
32-2-654-0779 (H)
32-2-788-7823 (O)
henri.barthel@gs1.org
Henri Barthel is Technical Director EPCglobal Inc. He is responsible for leading the research and development work performed by the Auto-ID Labs, for liaising with Solution Providers, for providing technical support to the EAN Member Organisations and for representing EPCglobal and EAN International in external standardisation bodies. He is also chairman of the ISO working group dealing with RFID standardisation for item management. EPCglobal, Inc., a joint venture between EAN International and the Uniform Code Council (UCC), is a not-for-profit organisation entrusted to drive the global adoption of the EPCglobal NetworkTM. EPCglobal leverages the thirty-year heritage of EAN International in successfully partnering with industry. By developing standards for the EPCglobal Network, EPCglobal aims to make organisations more effective by enabling true visibility of information about items in the supply chain.

Mike Baur

Francis Beck

Francis Beck
February 28, 1926 – December 20, 2015
In the early 1950s, as RCA was beginning to design color television vacuum tubes Francis X. Beck Jr., a newly graduated engineer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was hired as an electronics designer that played a key role in the development of test equipment to evaluate early production prototype color television tubes. In his next assignment as a design engineer at RCA, he holds a patent in the design of equipment used to monitor and test the performance of a television transmitters broadcast signal. During the cold war of the 1960s, he participated in the development and design of hardware devoted to provide monitoring of the operation of a number of large radar systems identified as the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS). The subsystem to which he was assigned provided automatic fault and detection capability needed for maintenance of 24 hour readiness should a surprise ballistic missile attack on the United States ever occur. In 1972, as the UPC (Universal Product Code) was being developed he co-authored the patent design for a supermarket checkout stand with a stationary laser that allowed cashiers to drag groceries past the laser beam and drop them directly into the bag. In the winter of 1973, one of Becks prototypical checkout stands was donated to the Smithsonians National Museum of American History. The ceremony celebrating the bequest was jovial and somewhat informal, with the historic stand serving as an impromptu bar. In addition to all his work, Francis and his wife Shirley, adopted four of their six children. Three of the children were adopted through Welcome House, Pearl S. Bucks adoption agency. Then in 1978, they helped to establish the Love the Children adoption agency where they served on the board until the agency closed earlier this year. Francis also served on the Municipal Authority Board of East Goshen Township for 38 years. Francis passed away on December 20, 2015 at the age of 89. He is survived by his wife Shirley of 65 years, along with six children, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Chet Benoit

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

Paul Bergé

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

Kevin Berisso

Kevin Berisso
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, Department of Engineering Technology
MEMPHIS, TN
(740) 707-5882
kevin@bait-consulting.com
Kevin Berisso, PhD, is the Executive Director of Ohio University’s AIDC Lab and an Assistant Professor in the school’s Industrial Technology Department. He received his BS in Industrial Technology from Ohio University and a MS in Industrial Technology from Indiana State University before taking a position with Applied Tactical Systems. While at ATS, he worked as a project engineer with companies such as Colgate-Palmolive and TRW. He then went to work for Delphi Automotive as a manufacturing engineer in the automotive battery division. In 2003 Dr. Berisso received his PhD in Technology Management from Indiana State University. He then proceeded to teach at Central Missouri State University before returning to OU in the summer of 2005. Included in Kevin’s research interests are direct part marking, AIDC integration with manufacturing processes and automation. His non-AIDC research activities include rapid prototyping and coordinate metrology. His has taught classes in automation, CNC, materials testing, production tooling, AIDC and international management. Dr. Berisso followed in the footsteps of the late Jim Fales who was one of the charter members of AIDC 100. He is one of the few educators focused on AIDC technologies and the only university professor who “teaches the teachers” in the AIDC Technical Institute at Ohio University that is held annually. This weeklong AIDC 100 program indoctrinates professors from all over the counrty and overseas who go back to educate their students. Kevin’s classes focus on bar coding, RFID, magnetic stripe, smart cards, voice recognition, biometrics and related systems. (See a video on the program at: http://www.ohio.edu/industrialtech/aidc/index.cfm.) In 2012, he accepted AIM Global’s Ted Williams Award, which is presented annually to a professor or student in recognition of innovative and exceptional contributions that further the growth of the AIDC industry through their work as a teacher, researcher and entrepreneur. Kevin is also an active member of AIMs IoT and TSC committees and his research interests include the Internet of Things, direct part marking, and the 2D Judge for 2-D bar code quality evaluation.

Robert Biederman

Robert Biederman
609.902.0859
robert@robertbeideman.com
Robert Beideman leads the teams that bring products and innovations to life at GS1. He and his teams engage businesses, organisations and industries as trusted advisors to transform their supply chains, adapt their logistics models and thrive in a time of unprecedented digital transformation. His consultative approach to leadership relies on perspectives gained in roles in product development, systems engineering, sales and marketing, consulting, research & development and ML/BI design. On the personal side, he is a published landscape photographer, a licensed sea captain and a writer. He also loves coffee and believes that the intersection of ‘that which is possible’ and ‘that which is needed’ is where all the fun stuff happens.
Active Work:
- Strategy: Global strategic leadership of all Product and Innovation offerings for GS1.
- Leadership: Responsible for thought leadership on topics of technology’s relevance to business needs, in areas such as IoT, Blockchain, Physical/ Digital Identity, Web Data Sharing and Networked Platforms.
- Vision: Visionary advancement of sector-agnostic global solutions and standards offerings related to traceability, sustainability, anti-counterfeit and fighting illicit trade.
- Innovation: Leader of GS1’s Innovation Board.
- Engagement: Strategic engagement and consensus-building, development of trusting relationships across and between GS1, industry partners and associations.
- Technology: Deep understanding of the GS1 System, significant knowledge of web and data architectures.
- Phone
609.902.0859

Dr. Richard Billo

Dr. Richard Billo
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON
622 Nedderman Hall, Arlington, TX 76019
(817) 272-2708
richard.billo@uta.edu
Richard E. Billo is Associate Dean for Engineering Research at the University of Texas at Arlington. For almost 20 years, Dr. Billo has conducted research in many facets of AIDC including wireless technologies, bar code technologies, two-dimensional symbologies, contact memory technology, and direct part marking. He has published over 60 refereed papers, and been awarded over $50 million in funded research grants and gifts. Through newly developed courses in AIDC at both Oregon State University and the University of Pittsburgh, over 1,000 engineering students received hands-on education in the design, implementation and usage of AIDC systems. Most of the equipment for this education of students was generously supplied by AIM and the AIDC equipment community. For the AIDC industry, Dr. Billo specialized in product development and product performance testing for the various standards bodies, federal agencies and AIDC manufacturers and user companies. Of particular note, in collaboration with his colleague Dr. Marlin Mickle, they performed the first comprehensive testing that was done to aid ANSI in the selection decision of the American national standard for passive RFID tag systems. Another key project of note was prototype development of the biometric identification system currently in use by the U.S. Visits program, a project Dr. Billo conducted in collaboration with his colleagues Dr. Andrew Longacre and Dr. David Porter. Dr. Billo has conducted research for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Defense Logistics Agency, the National Science Foundation, and such companies as Intel, Hewlett Packard, Fed Ex Ground, UPS, and a number of AIDC manufacturers such as PSC, Handheld Products, SAVI Technologies, and Fox IV Technologies. He currently serves on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications. In addition to his recent selection into membership of the AIDC 100, Dr. Billo has been recognized by his peers through past awards for the Intel Faculty Fellowship, the University of Pittsburgh Board of Visitors Outstanding Faculty Award, and the Whiteford Faculty Fellowship

Charles (Chuck) Biss

Charles (Chuck) Biss
GS1
3192 Barrington Way, Auburn, NY 13021
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.

Mary Lou Bosco

Mary Lou Bosco
724.742.4473
Mary Lou Bosco leads the executive team as Chief Executive Officer for AIM Global, the global industry alliance which represents the interests of individuals and organizations that implement, sell, develop, and use automatic identification and data capture technologies. She also manages AIM North America. Ms. Bosco joined AIM in 2006 and held various management positions including COO since 2010 before being promoted to CEO in 2022.
An industry advocate, Ms. Bosco is passionate about the promotion and adoption of AIDC technologies, while always striving to present a balanced view of all aspects of the industry. Well recognized within the AIDC community, she is considered a resource on AIDC and the trends within the industry.
Ms. Bosco serves as the Secretariat, ADC1 TAG, the US Technical Advisors Group for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31— Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques standards, is a frequent contributor at AIDC industry events and publications and is a former board member of the Material Handling Education Foundation, Inc. (MHEFI).
For more than 30 years, Ms. Bosco has worked in association management. Her career began in the Washington, D.C. area with the National Automobile Dealers Association, before serving as the Associate Director of Membership Development for the Association for Supply Chain Management, and the Director of Membership & Chapter Relations for the National Science Teachers Association.
She is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she received degrees in marketing and economics. She is also a dedicated coach and volunteer in the suburban community north of Pittsburgh where she resides with her husband and three children.
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724.742.4473

Tom Brady

Tom Brady
1267 Timberwyck Court, Dayton, OH 45458
937-609-4207
tbrady@woh.rr.com
Tom Brady, formerly the UCC’s Vice President of AIDC, possesses over 40 years of experience in the field of automatic identification data capture and is one of the industry?s most respected technology experts. Mr. Brady?s career in the AIDC area began at NCR Corporation in 1961, where he was involved in the development of the first scanners that would launch a broadscale AIDC technical revolution. His expertise was used in the design, development and marketing of transaction processing systems for retail and industrial applications. In his thirty-year career at NCR, he held a series of senior level executive positions that utilized his extensive R&D and product management experience.

Rich Bravman

Rich Bravman
INTELLEFLEX CORPORATION
2465 Augustine Drive #102, Santa Clara, C 95054
408-200-6510
rbravman@mac.com

Eric Brodheim

Eric Brodheim
201 East 69th Street – 15R, New York, NY 10021
212-779-0780
eric.brodheim@worldnet.att.net

Harry Burke

Harry Burke
1918-2000

John Burnell

President
John Burnell
BURNELL REPORTS
440-793-8002
john@burnell.com
John Burnell has been working in the AIDC industry since 1990. He is best known for his tenure with the Automatic I.D. News and Frontline Solutions industry magazines and the ID Expo and SCAN-TECH conference and exhibition series. John served in a variety of editorial and conference development roles, including as editor-in-chief of Automatic I.D. News Europe and Frontline Solutions, and received the Bert Moore Excellence in Journalism Award from AIM. He and his publishing and event colleagues developed many different resources to educate potential end users in new markets about the benefits of AIDC technologies, and to help AIDC manufacturers develop new distribution channels. The team used its platform to provide non-promotional education material about the technologies, and to advocate for standardization and industry collaboration.
After leaving the publishing and events industry, John founded Burnell Reports to provide market education, market research, marketing support and public relations services to AIDC and other companies. In these roles John has collaborated with industry associations, AIDC vendors and end users on a variety of special educational topics including: how to meet labeling and marking standards for Airbus, Boeing, GM and other enterprises; Windows Mobile application development; biometrics; in-depth introductory conferences and publications about the EPC system and other RFID technology; understanding and using GS1 standards and more, and has contributed to several major market research reports.
Burnell Reports has expanded its scope and is heavily involved in the enterprise IT, healthcare transformation and international business services markets, in addition to serving AIDC clients.
John has a bachelor of science in journalism (BSJ) degree from Ohio University and resides in the Cleveland area.

Terry Burton

Terry Burton
Terry Burton is a computing professional with more than twenty years’ experience in IT security, systems engineering and standards development. He is a recognized subject matter expert in the field of barcode generation and is a frequent contributor to the development of barcode symbology standards and GS1 standards. He is currently providing IT and AutoID consultancy to the private sector and global standards organizations.
He’s a key contributor to the latest release of DotCode, and major contributor to UltraCode, a new color 2D symbology. He was the Chair of the AIM Technical Symbology Committee and is working with GS1 on the release of a GS1 barcode syntax resource for industry.

Rick Bushnell

Rick Bushnell
Reclam the Bay
357 North 7th Street, Surf City, NJ 08008
Richard D. Bushnell (Rick) Before co-founding Quad II (http://quadii.com), Mr. Bushnell formed Bushnell Consulting Group in 1985. He is the founder of Insight U. (www.insightu.org) His involvement in ADC began in 1969 at the 3M Company and he later served as the VP of Sales and Marketing for Accu-Sort Systems, leaving them to help start up several other companies. He is a past Chairman of the AIM trade association. He served on the Board of Directors for AIM, the Material Handling Institute (MHI) and the MHI Education Foundation. He has lectured for many well-known organizations, colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. He was honored by receiving the Dick Dilling award (the highet recognition in his industry)selection to the College Industry Council for Material Handling Education (CICMHE). IBM, Xerox, VW and DuPont are among the companies using systems which he designed. Rick authored several books including Getting Started With Bar Codes: A Systematic Guide , The Factory Data Collection Market Hardware / Software (based on Cahners Research). In addition, Rick co-authored RF/ID: Technologies, Markets and Applications. He has been interviewed on CBS Nightly News, and by Industry Week Magazine, PC Week, Nation’s Business Magazine and OMNI Magazine. Rick has developed corporate strategy for bar code use and serves as the Administrator of the Integrated Business Communications Alliance (IBCA), representing approximately 20 different trade associations whose members constitute over 40,000 manufacturer, wholesaler and supplier locations dealing in non-retail items.

Scott Cardais

Scott Cardais
1108 Laurel Park Lane, Charlotte, NC 28270
704-844-0606
704-661-5393 (m)
scott@cardais.com

Ernesto Castagnet

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.

Don Chamblin

Don Chamblin
18714 Oldfield Road, New Buffalo, MI 49117
269-469-9636 (h)
269-277-2664 (m)
dwchamblin@netscape.net

Paul Chartier

Paul Chartier
PRAXIS CONSULTANTS
58A High Street, Chippenham, SN15 4RL ENGLAND
44-1249-721461
paul.chartier@praxisconsultants.co.uk

Harry Clark

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

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.

John Hatfield Cribb

John Hatfield Cribb

Farmer Cullom

Farmer Cullom

Stephen Cuntz

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.

Dave Czaplicki

Mark David

Mark David
ELECTRONIC DESIGN MAGAZINE
731 W. Mountain Road, Sparta, NJ 07830
201-845-2467 (O)
973-300-0837 (H)
mdavid8052@aol.com
As Editor In Chief of Automatic I.D. News magazine from 1986 to 1998, helped support and build the AIDC industry. Helped grow the magazine into an international franchise, with editions for U.S., Europe, Latain America and Asia. Currently Editor In Chief of Electronic Design magazine, reaching designers of AIDC hardware as well as the full range of electronics for all markets.

Trevor Dean

Ray Delnicki

Leadership Council
Ray Delnicki
372 Harrington Way, Souderton, PA 18964
raydelnicki@hotmail.com
215-919-6171
Director, Global Standards, GS1 US
Ray Delnicki is a 19-year veteran with GS1 US and a six time winner of the GS1 US Values Award. Ray is a leader in the development of both GS1 and other international standards. He has served as the Secretariat for ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31, the ISO committee for AIDC technologies. He is the primary source for GS1 US to educate others on these standards. US. Prior to coming to GS1 US, Ray had extensive industry experience with the AIDC technology as a package engineering manager in the automotive aftermarket industry.

Richard Dilling

Richard Dilling
Dick Dilling was Vice-President for Marketing and Sales of Interface Mechanisms (now Intermec Technologies) from 1971 to 1982 the days before there was any established market for the then curiosity known as bar codes. In 1971, Dr. David Allais (an AIDC 100 member) of the company had invented a keyboard driven printer to produce pressure sensitive labels with the Plessey bar code, used with library systems in the UK. In the 70s, when the firms only product was this printer, at MHI trade shows, visitors would ask, Why would I want that device? The answers became easier when Intermec developed its own wand scanners and displays. Dick was tireless in his constant efforts to promote and find uses for the new technology. When AIM became an independent trade group, Dick was elected as the Vice-President; and his energy and enthusiasm were utilized in planning and staging in 1982 the first of the very successful Scan-Tech trade shows, which he repeated in 1983. Shortly thereafter he succumbed to cancer. In his honor and memory, AIM established in 1984 the Dilling Award given annually to an individual within the industry who has rendered outstanding service in the promotion of AIDC

Chris Diorio

Chris Diorio
IMPINJ
701 N. 34th Street – Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98103
206-517-5300
diorio@impinj.com
Dr. Chris Diorio is Chairman and CTO of Impinj, Inc. He also serves as an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, as a co-Chair of the EPCglobal Hardware Action Group, and as a Project co-Editor for ISO 18000-6. Dr. Diorio received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1997, and has over 20 years of experience in semiconductor and radio engineering. He has published more than 70 journal and conference articles, has 39 issued patents, and has received numerous awards including the 2007 WSA Technology Innovator of the Year award, CMP Technology’s 2007 RFID Visionary of the Year award, the 2007 AIM Global Ted Williams Award, the Wall Street Journal’s 2006 Technology Innovator of the Year Runner-Up, the UW’s 2001 Distinguished Teaching Award, and the 1996 IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport Award. He has also received Packard, Sloan, Presidential, and ONR Young Investigator fellowships. He has worked as a Senior Staff Engineer at TRW, Inc., as a Senior Staff Scientist at American Systems Corporation, and as a Technical Consultant at The Analytic Sciences Corporation.

Jeanne Duckett

Jeanne Duckett
Jeanne Duckett leads the Transparency Initiative Development for Avery Dennison Printer Systems investigating: Blockchain, Distributed Computing, RFID, networking and new technology and other relevant technologies for products in the 3-5 year. She manages the Food IP portfolio for Avery Dennison’s Printer Systems in addition to holding multiple patents in imaging, RFID handling, and various aspects of printer design including design of Food Freshness Printers. Jeanne is a contributing member of AIM Global and GS1 inter-industry organizations. Currently on the AIM North America Board, she chairs the AIM North America Food Policy Committee and was the previous chair of the IOT and Blockchain Council, and RFID Experts Group. A contributor to the GS1 Global Traceability Initiative, she also participates on Technology Symbols, Wireless Communication, GS1 Supply Chain Visibility and GS1 Foodservice Initiatives. Jeanne has spoken at several industry events including Industry food shows focusing on technology, RFID Journal Live, GS1 Connect and State Association Restaurant Shows. Jeanne graduated from Iowa State University with a BA in Political Science and Government and received her PhD in Computer Science with a focus on the Semantic Web from Wright State University.

Joe Dunlap

Joe Dunlap
CBRE
117 Kings Pointe Ln, McMinnville, TN 37110
931-409-2234 (m)
joe.dunlap@gmail.com
Joe is a Director in Fortna’s Supply Chain Services. Fortna is a professional services firm helping companies with complex distribution operations meet customer promises and competitive challenges profitably. We develop a solid business case for change and hold ourselves accountable to those results. Our expertise spans supply chain strategy, distribution center operations, material handling, supply chain systems and organizational excellence. Most recently Joe was a Principal at Accenture. Joe also served as a Project Director at Siemens Business Services and as a lent resource to Siemens One where he served as a Senior Business Development Manager. Joe was also an area lead in Siemens Logistics & Assembly & Supply Chain Solutions group where he patented unique RFID automation solutions for reading shelf inventory and applying multiple tag types in various optimal orientations and positions to achieve the best read performance using the least cost tag. Previously, Joe held numerous positions with United Parcel Service in areas such as industrial engineering, operations, information technology and business development. Joe has 20+ years of experience in fulfillment where his areas of specialty include network strategy, transportation / distribution operations, facility design, warehouse management / transportation management / yard management systems, RFID and other technologies. He has served as Secretary and Vice President for the Atlanta Chapter of Warehousing Education Research Council (WERC) where he remains an active member, is a member of Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and is a founding member of AIM’s RFID Experts Group (REG).

Jay Eastman

Doug Edgell

Doug Edgell
1951-1998

Gabriele Edgell

Gabriele Edgell
EDGELL COMMUNICATIONS
4 Middlebury Boulevard, Randolph, NJ 07869
973-607-1307
gedgell@edgellmail.com

Daniel Engels

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.

Don Ertel

Don Ertel
CDO TECHNOLOGIES
5200 Springfield St. Dayton, OH 45431
937-476-2212
937-478-3423 (m)
don.ertel@cdotech.com

John Esserian

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

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

Jim Fales

Jim Fales
1941 – 2008
James Frederick Fales “Jim” of Athens, at the age of 66,departed this world and was taken home to be with our Lord on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at OBleness Memorial Hospital after suffering a stroke on a church mission trip in Romania. He was born in West Palm Beach, Florida on December 6, 1941, the son of the late Franklin A. & Ruth Ufford Fales. A Professor Emeritus at Ohio University, Dr. James Fales was the former Chair of the Industrial Technology Department for 20 years and Director of the Center for Automatic Identification. He was Loehr professor emeritus and served as the Associate Director of the Robe Leadership Institute and Leader-in-Residence in the Global Leadership Center at Ohio University. He was also a recipient of the Don Percival Award and was recently awarded a distinguished alumni award from Texas A&M University. Jim held previous teaching posts at Purdue University and Texas A&M University and was considered one of the nations foremost educational authorities on bar coding. Jim is a graduate of Lake Worth (FL) High School, University of Miami (B. Ed.) and Texas A&M University (M. Ed. & P. Ed.). He was a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE), a Certified Enterprise Integrator (CEI) and a Certified Engineering Manager (CEM). He received numerous awards for outstanding teaching and contributions to education, associations, business and industry. He was a frequent speaker at conferences and has authored many textbooks and articles. He was an active member, Sunday school teacher and former deacon at Albany Baptist Church where he served dutifully for the past 22 years. Jim is survived by his adoring wife Sharon; children Scott (Stacey) Fales, Jennifer Fales (Greg Morris), Beth (Reno) Carifa and Mark (Jessica) Fales; grandchildren, Sarah, Jake, Allison, Cameryn and Colin Fales; siblings Jane Roney, Don Fales and Cliff (Georgia) Fales; and by many loving nieces and nephews.

Milt Field

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).

Ian Forster

Ian Forster
AVERY DENNISON-RFID DIV.
W. Hanningfield Rd. Great Baddow Chelmsford Essex, CM2 8HN ENGLAND
44-1245-243475
44-7801-727501(m)
ian.forster@eu.averydennison.com
Ian Forster is a Technical Director in the RFID Division of Avery Dennison. He has worked in RFID for over 20 years and has been involved in a broad range of projects, including the 5.8GHz Telepass system on the Italian Autostrade network, innovative multi-mode 2.45GHz tags for logistics applications, and, as part of the team at Marconi Infochain, designed a range of RFID tags for pallets, metal objects, tires beer kegs and other challenging objects. At Avery, he is responsible for the work of the UK based design group and all aspects of RFID technology used worldwide, with a particular focus on innovation. He holds over 40 international patents on RFID and related technologies.

Richard P. Fox, Jr.

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

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.

Chuck Furedy

Chuck Furedy
JANAM
3702 Rock Ivy Trail, Roswell, GA 30075
770-650-8234
678-360-5450 (m)
chuck.furedy@gmail.com
For more than 30 years, Chuck Furedy has been heavily involved in all aspects of the Automatic Identification industry. Throughout this period, he has provided much leadership that has resulted in the growth and enhancement of the industry. A summary of his background and key accomplishments include: –Joined Matthews International in 1972 and developed their Film Master/Verification business. He supplied the ‘circular symbology’ film and printing plates that were used in the Kroger Store UPC test in Cincinnati, Ohio. –Sold the first film masters to place UPC on a number of consumer products: Lever Brothers, HJ Heinz, Campbell Soup, Kraft, Coke, Capital Records and Newsweek. –Joined Symbol Technologies in 1979. –As a member of the Symbol Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of UPCC he was a co-developer of the unique UPC 2 and 5 digit add-on codes for records/tapes, paperback books, magazines and periodicals. –Managed Symbol’s Eastern Division direct sales team from 1981-1988. –Sold the first handheld laser scanner to CBS Records and Wal-Mart in 1983. –Founder of Symbol’s OEM business in 1988 via a unique product contract for 55,000 scan engines for UPS. The UPS ‘DIAD 1’ delivery terminal. –Developed the concept of a Scan Engine product set along with the introduction of the SE 1000, the industries first volume based production laser scanner. –Heavily involved with various standards organizations including VICs, TCIF, FACT and AIAG. –Co-founder of Symbols WLAN Joint Development partnership with Intel. Chuck is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and has continuing education degrees from Michigan State University and The Wharton School of Business.

Anthony Furness

Anthony Furness
The Old Vicarage, Haley Hill Halifax, HX3 6DR UK
44-1422-368368
anthony.furness@btconnect.com

Allan Gilligan

Allan Gilligan
10/19/1943 – 10/21/2011
Allan Gilligan was born in Queens, New York on October 19, 1943. He graduated Andrew Jackson High School in 1961. He received his Associate of Applied Science degree from Queensborough Community College in 1964. He received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering in 1973, and he received his Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1978. He worked for Bell Labortories, AT&T, and Lucent Technologies for 34 years, developing worldwide standards for the bar code industry. His expertise was brought into the national standards bodies with his active participation and leadership in the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Materials Handling MH10.8 committee, the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) Industrial Bar Code subcommittee and the Telecommunications Industry Forum (TCIF) Bar Code Transaction Label subcommittee. Under his leadership the first national and telecommunication industry standards for bar code shipping and receiving labels and a revolutionary new standard for measuring bar code print quality were issued. These standards have been the benchmarks for current international bar code standards development in both Europe and Japan. In 1986 Allan received the Don Percival Award from AIM USA and SCAN Newsletter for his leadership and innovation in bar code equipment evaluation and standards development. In 1995 Allan received the Engineering Award of Excellence from the Electronic Industries Alliance for his leadership role in developing standards and technology within the electronics industry. He retired in June 2001 and continued to work with bar code standards as an independent consultant. He was a member of King of Kings Church and of the Free and Accepted Masons. He battled with melanoma cancer since February 2011, and was extremely grateful for the excellent treatment and care he received at Memorial Sloan-Kettering during that difficult time. Allan Gilligan is predeceased by his parents, Ruth and William Gilligan. He is survived by his beloved wife of 43 years, Nancy (Jessen) Gilligan; his daughter, Kristine (Gilligan) Waide and her husband Dustin Waide; his son, Kirk Gilligan and his wife Heidi (Smith) Gilligan; his sister, Cindy (Gilligan) Mayer and her husband William Mayer; and his grandchildren, Gavin Waide, Nolan Waide, and Wayman Waide.

Paula Giovannetti

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

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.

Teddy Goldberg

Teddy Goldberg
Behind many successful companies and industries, there are “silent” contributors who are most influential. In this case, Teddy Goldberg has been a strong and contributory partner to her late husband Georges many deeds that did so many positive things to help shape our industry. To this day, Teddy continues in a very active role within the AIDC 100 and is a valued asset. For all that she has contributed and continues to contribute, it was deemed that she become an Honorary Member of this prestigious organization with full privileges.

Frank Goodfinger

Frank Goodfinger
SICK, INC.
800 Technology Center Dr. SUITE 6 Stoughton, MA 02072
561-600-4303
frank.goodfinger@sick.com

Larry Graham

Larry Graham
1330 N. Oxford Rd. Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236
313-720-7952
lgautoid@aol.com
Retired General Motors Fellow, Global Manager Manufacturing Technologies

Scott Gray

Scott Gray
GS1 AISBL
Blue Tower, Avenue Louise, 326 Brussels, Belgium, BE 1050
Scott has worked in AIDC since 1984 and is currently the AIDC Technology Leader for GS1 Global. Scott is an avid advocate for AIDC technologies with a passionate emphasis on using these technologies to improve every aspect of peoples lives. He is a diplomat, teacher and mentor. He understands the intricacies and works diligently to maintain the integrity of the AIDC standards that millions of people rely on everyday. But Scott goes a step further. He works around the world as an ambassador for the use of bar codes and RFID to prevent mistakes and save time, money, and lives. Scott has been instrumental in maintaining and rewriting the GS1 General Specifications and has helped to identify many of the best business practices we use today in item, location and asset identification. AIDC 100 puts a lot of emphasis on the mechanics of data capture, but unique identification is really the business application we ultimately serve. He has written several Executive White Papers and presentations on the use of automatic identification in Health Care, Grocery, Retail, Fresh Foods, Tracking and Tracing, Mobile Phones and Serialization. Scott is a frequent speaker on AIDC. He works with industries new to global identification, bar codes and RFID to help them deploy these technologies in an effective way. Scott has taken the AIDC message to forty countries; speaking, training, and meeting with industry and government officials.

Michael Guillory

Michael Guillory
CONSULTANT
302 Eagle Mountain Drive Hickory Creek, TX 75065
972-679-6455
Mike is the principal of Strategic Action Consulting Services. He has spent the past 27 years actively engaged in systems engineering, radio frequency, and signal and data processing. He has been heavily involved in the development of numerous data capture and transfer systems for both classified and unclassified information. Mike has been heavily involved as a delegate and officer in both domestic (ANSI) and international (ISO) standards developments organizations with particular emphasis on RFID. His involvement has included vice-chair elect in the INCITS T6 committee (RFID for Item Management) dealing with both the RF (radio link) as well as the information (API) interfaces. Additionally, he serves as convener of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 4/ SG 1 (Data Syntax) and actively participating in the SG 3 (Air Interface) and SG 4 (Regulatory) technical working groups. He serves as the technical editor for the technical report defining test methods for RFID performance measures as part of SC 31/ WG 3/SG 1. He is an active participant and conformance project leader in the ISO TC 122 (Packaging)/ISO TC 104 (Freight Container) Joint Working Group on Supply Chain Applications of RFID.

Anders Gustafsson

Anders Gustafsson
Anders Gustafsson is the Executive Chair of the Board for Zebra Technologies, and previously served as Zebra’s Chief Executive Officer and director from 2007 to March 2023. Prior to joining Zebra, Anders served as Chief Executive Officer of Spirent Communications plc, a publicly-traded telecommunications company, from 2004 until 2007. He previously served in senior executive positions at Tellabs, Inc. and Motorola, Inc.
Anders holds an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business, and an MS Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Anders is a member of the board of directors of International Paper Company (NYSE: IP), and previously was a member of the board of directors of Dycom Industries Inc. (NYSE: DY). He is a member of the Technology Committee and the Immigration Committee of the Business Roundtable, a member of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and serves as a trustee of the Shedd Aquarium.

Alfonso Gutierrez

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

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.

William Hakanson

Steve Halliday

Leadership Council
Steve Halliday
HIGH TECH AID
123 rooftop Ct. Stephenson, VA 22656
202-930-0935
steve@hightechaid.com
Steve Halliday graduated from the University of Manchester, UK, with a degree in Electronic Engineering. He has been involved in automatic identification and data capture technologies since 1981. This has included work on RFID and bar code technologies as well as the engineering and design of card readers and encoders, the manufacture of magnetic stripes, and the design of specialized integrated circuits for magnetic stripe applications. Steve is now the President of High Tech Aid, a company based in Pittsburgh, PA providing consulting services about Automatic Identification and Data Capture technologies. Prior to forming High Tech Aid, Steve was vice president, technology for AIM Inc., a trade association for manufacturers, consultants, systems integrators, and users involved in automatic identification and data capture. He was responsible for all technology aspects for the trade association on a global basis including responsibilities in Magnetic Stripe, Bar Code, Radio Frequency Identification, and Wireless Communication. Before that, Steve worked for GFI-Genfare, a transit equipment manufacturer, as Director of Product Management, with special emphasis on their magnetic stripe program. Steve has had numerous papers and articles published on technology subjects. He is the editor/publisher of High Tech AIDCourier, a monthly newsletter for the AIDC community, and is the chairman of the SC31 committee responsible for creating RFID air interface standards. He the past chairman for the United States Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC31, Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques, He has also served as the Vice-Chair for the ANSI committee on Identification Cards, the Secretary for the ANSI Magnetic Stripe committee, and he is a regular attendee at ANSI and ISO meetings. He is also the founder and the past editor of RFID News, an electronic newsletter for the RFID community from AIM and the current editor of the HighTechAIDCourier, a newsletter about AIDC. Steve is also a past member of the board of directors for the Pittsburgh Society of Association Executives.

Masahiro Hara

Masahiro Hara
DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED
1 Yoshiike, Kusagi Agui-Cho Chita-gun, Aichi-ken, Japan, 470-2297
masahiro.hara.j2a@denso-wave.com
I joined DENSO CORPORATION in 1980 and currently belong to DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED, which was spun off from DENSO CORPORATION in 2001. I developed a hand-held CCD sensor type barcode reader and OCR when I was with DENSO CORPORATION. I developed the QR Code in 1994 as I believed that barcodes would become limiting in the information age. Using my experience in developing barcode readers and OCR, I developed QR Code that can handle large amounts of data and can be read reliably even when dirty. Afterwards, I worked on the standardization and popularization of the QR Code. Currently engaged in the development of new QR Codes and its applications.

Bill Hardgrave

Bill Hardgrave
Dr. Bill Hardgrave currently serves as the 13th President of the University of Memphis. Prior to joining the University of Memphis, Hardgrave served four years as Auburn University’s Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and eight years as dean of Auburn’s Harbert College of Business. He also spent 17 years at the University of Arkansas in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, eventually holding the Edwin & Karlee Bradberry Chair in Information Systems. While there, he founded and ran the Information Technology Research Institute and the RFID Research Center.
Hardgrave is an accomplished scholar—having published several books and more than 100 articles—and is considered a leading authority on retail, retail supply chains, and retail technologies. He has worked with numerous companies, including Walmart, Amazon, Macy’s, Nike, PVH, VF Corp., FedEx, Intel, and Microsoft, among others, and is a highly sought-after speaker—delivering more than 200 invited talks to a total audience of more than 30,000, not including numerous podcasts, videos, and panel appearances. For almost 20 years, Hardgrave and his colleagues from the RFID Lab have led the industry use and adoption of RFID and related technologies. Research conducted by Hardgrave and his colleagues is largely credited with establishing the business value of RFID. In recognition of his impact on the industry, Hardgrave has received the Ted Williams Award from AIM Global as the most influential researcher in the field of RFID and the Special Achievement award from RFID Journal for his overall impact on the field.
Prior to entering academia, Hardgrave ran two software startup companies. The second startup developed the first software commercially available for the transportation brokerage industry after deregulation of transportation created a new industry ripe for automation.
Dr. Hardgrave has served on the boards of several startup companies, and as a subject matter expert for a variety of companies, such as Deloitte. He currently serves on the Executive Leadership Committee for GS1 US.

Craig Harmon

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

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

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

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.

Dr. Harley Heinrich

Dr. Harley Heinrich
IMPINJ
701 N. 34th Street Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98103
Dr. Harley Heinrich is the Chief Technologist for the Intellitag RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology in Intermec. He was the co-chair of the EPCglobal Gen2 working group to develop the UHF generation 2 standard for RFID for use in consumer product group companies like Wal-mart, Target, Procter & Gamble and many other fortune 500 companies. In 2003, he was awarded Intermecs highest honor, the Ron Mahany Award for Outstanding Innovation, for his work in RFID. Prior to joining Intermec, he previously worked at IBMs world-renowned T.J. Watson research center for 10 years. In 1992, he was one of the original founders of the IBM RFID effort and led the development of the high-performance, low-cost RFID tag package, antenna, and chip efforts. As a result of his efforts at the IBM research center, he and his group were awarded the prestigious Outstanding Invention Achievement Award, which recognizes the single most important individual and group contribution for IBM research for the year. Prior to working at IBM, he simultaneously worked on his PhD at Stanford University in ultra fast microwave electro optics and led chip design efforts at Hewlett-Packard as an analog integrated circuit designer. He has written and presented over 30 technical papers, and he holds 39 issued patents many of which are both US and International.

Carl Helmers

Peter Hicks

Peter Hicks
Obituary: Peter Charles Hicks died peacefully in Oxford on 17th April 2013, aged 86. Dear father of Michael and Patrick, father-in-law of Sarah and Jackie and grandfather of Charlie, Georgina, Peter, James and William. Funeral service was held at Weston-on-the-Green Parish Church on Monday, 29th April 2013. Peter lived an intense and colorful life in which his entrepreneurial spirit guided him in various directions. This culminated in the creation of a company called Symbol Services which later became the Axicon Group of companies. Peter and his deceased wife Jenny started in the barcode business by selling and later also making film masters. Peter was one of the drivers of AIM in the UK and was a charter member of AIDC 100.

Martin Hileman

Martin Hileman
3959 Gardenview Drive Dayton, OH 45431
937-426-2514
hilemar@aol.com
Spent the past 25 years with Standard Register Co. providing sole technical support for bar codes direct to sales and customers. Company print volume was over $10-million/year in bar codes. Had fundamental hand in developing bar code standards for UPS, Airborne, and Federal Express. Worked with Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) in Detroit, MI from 1985 1990. Winner of Outstanding Achievement Award for two years. Chaired various committees such as Technical Symbology and Shipping Label Standard. Officer of American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X3.182 Optical Character Recognition and as such helped author the Guidelines for Bar Code Print Quality document (one of 12 authors). AIAG representative to Federation of Automated Coding Technologies (FACT) for 1989-1990. Company representative to Uniform Code Council 1986-2003. Author of 7 patents including one for Automated Mobile Bar Code Reader System and another for printing encryptable data characters. Contributor to Code 49, the first 2-dimensional bar code symbology. Contributor to textbook on data symbologies. (Punched Cards to Bar Codes – A 200 Year Journey from Helmers Publishing, 1997, ref. pp. ix, 216, 227, and others). Contributor to textboom on bar codes (Lines of Communication from Helmers Publishing, 1994, ref. Appendix D. Check Characters).

John Hill

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.

Clive Hohberger

Clive Hohberger
626 Barberry Rd – Highland Park IL 60035
1-847-910-8794
cph@clivellc.com
Dr. Clive Hohberger is expert in Automatic Identification and Data Capture and Collection (AIDC) technologies. In addition, he is well known for applications of AIDC technologies in medicine.
He received his PhD in Engineering in 1973 from Case Western Reserve University. In 1981, he received an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.
At Montreal Neurological Institute, in 1974 he codeveloped the first PDP-12 computer-assisted brain vascular surgical technique. Later at Abbott Laboratories R&D, he codeveloped the optical fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) technology used in clinical chemistry.
During 24 years an Executive at Zebra Technologies, he designed the ZPL® Programming Language used in all Zebra printers and the early Zebra thermal transfer printers. He also started the Zebra Supplies and Zebra RFID Businesses. He holds 39 patents, the majority in RFID.
Combining his RFID and blood banking expertise, he engineered the first RFID operated blood bank at the Blood Center of Wisconsin, winning FDA approval in 2012 for national deployment.
In 1990 AIDC 100 colleague Bruce Wray asked to joint an International Society for Blood Transfusion (ISBT) Working Party to design a global standard for blood labeling, based on Code128 and inclusive of all national blood needs. Clive was the first Editor of ISBT 128; ratified in 1994 and now used globally. In 2019, The World Health Organization (WHO) adopted ISBT 128 for global labeling and tracking of all clinical products of human origin. For his ISBT work, Clive received the 2011 One World Award for lifetime achievement.
Clive has been a Member of AIM since 1983 and on the Technical Symbology Committee since 1987. He developed and published the Ultracode Color Barcode Symbology in 2016, updated in 2023.
He was AIM Chairman from 2008-11. He received the 1999 Richard E. Dilling Award, and 2018 AIM Life Achievement Award. In 2018, AIM Global created the annual Clive Hohberger Technology Award for new technology innovation in AIDC.

Mike Hone

Mike Hone
7 Bobby Jones Drive, Andover, MA 01810
978-475-9866
978-618-2181 (m)
mhone@tempuspartners.com

Chris Hook

Chris Hook
847-274-6943 (m)
chrisdhook@comcast.net
Christopher D. Hook is truly one of the pioneers in development and application of RFID systems. Chris has over 25 years experience in the creation, development and application of RFID products and systems. He was responsible for the pioneering RFID work conducted by Eureka Systems in England (at that time a subsidiary of Sensormatic Corporation), applying RFID in diverse market segments such as animals, security and manufacturing. Chris is credited as being inventor of the first RFID system to achieve simultaneous identification of tags – many tags being identified by one reader effectively at the same time, considerably extending the utility of RFID systems. Chris has worked for both large and small, entrepreneurial firms, often spearheading initiatives to bring disruptive, innovative AIDC technologies to market, always with a keen eye on business process transformation enabled through the application of advanced AIDC systems. Chris significantly assisted in the creation of the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas, which is now recognized globally as a center of eminence and excellence. Representing Deloitte Consulting, he held a seat on the Center’s Advisory Board. During his varied career, Chris has filed numerous patents on RFID technologies and systems, wireless LANs and real-time location systems. Chris is widely published; Google “Chris Hook RFID” or visit his LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2170186 for a snapshot of his work.

Clifford Horwitz

Clifford Horwitz
36 Belcourt Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-640-2249
949-466-4700 (m)
Chorwitz3@gmail.com
Cliff Horwitz, formerly the Chairman and Chief Officer of SAMSys Technologies Inc., a Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) listed Company, and its operating subsidiaries. Mr. Horwitz founded this group of companies in 1994, and developed the vision for introducing Radio Frequency Identification into large scale commercial applications; and developed the market driven mass customization strategy by which the Company designs and manufactures RFID hardware to address the specific functional requirements of those applications. He is the Co-Inventor of the patented Multi-Protocol, Multi-Frequency RFID reader architecture which has emerged as the accepted mainstream concept of agile readers contained in the manifesto of EPCGlobal, the body mandated to commercialize and standardize the technology within the global Supply Chain. SAMSys has emerged as a clear leader in the RFID Industry through its unique vision and implementation strategies. Immediately prior to that, Mr. Horwitz was engaged in consulting to a variety of companies desirous of developing their respective Franchise programs across North America; together with other Projects requiring creative solutions to varied business problems, specifically in the areas of Financing, Marketing, Distribution and Strategic Positioning. He held the office of President and C.E.O. of Jumbo Video Inc. from April 1990 until July 1993. That company is Canada’s largest and fastest growing enterprise in the Home Entertainment retail industry, and this is largely due to the innovative policies and solutions which he had introduced during his tenure. These accomplishments are consistent with the successful track record which Mr. Horwitz has established throughout his career in many and varied commercial organizations and Industries. Other Industries in which Mr. Horwitz has enjoyed success during his career are Manufacturing, Hospitality, Health Care and Finance; and this has resulted in his becoming a much sought – after contributor to seminars and symposia on diverse topics.

Jack Householder

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

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.

Stuart Itkin

Ivan Jeanblanc

Henry (Hack) Johnson

Kevin Jost

Kevin Jost
315-391-2070
kevin.r.jost@gmail.com
For more than 30 years, Kevin Jost has made significant contributions to the Automatic Identification Industry. Kevin was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Hand Held Products. Along with an accomplished leadership team, he is responsible for the overall success of the company world-wide. Mr. Jost is also an inventor and patent holder. Throughout his executive career, Kevin has been a strong supporter of AIM and of many standards organizations like ISO, AIAG, ANSI, MH10 and others by contributing significant funds and by encouraging many of his employees to attend and make major contributions to these organizations. It is with this kind of behind the scenes support that has advanced the industry with positive growth. From 1982 until 2000 Mr. Jost served as Vice President and General Manager of the Welch Allyn Data Collection Division. From 1972 to 1982 he served in various capacities within the Data Collection Division. Mr. Jost is an active member of the local community in a number of initiatives. — A United Way of Central New York Leadership Committee member –On the board of directors at SUNY Upstate Medical University Foundation –On the board of directors of Par Technology –Member of the Adirondack Recreation Committee –Avid skier He holds a Bachelors of Science Degree from Syracuse University.

Hal Juckett

Hal Juckett
DECEASED
1932-1996 Legacy Member When Dick Mindlin prepared to retire as the first staff head of the UCC, the Board decided his successor should be an educator and motivator, skilled in the development and implementation of education programs. The development of the U.P.C. was complete and the grocery industry was well on its way to full use. The Board considered education the Code Councils primary ongoing function. In the spring of 1983, a search was initiated to find such a candidate. The winner was Harold Juckett, a career Xerox executive with a significant background in customer education and training. He matched almost perfectly the profile for a successor to Mindlin, Juckett made his first appearance at the November Board meeting, a month before he became an employee. After Mindlins retirement, Juckett began to develop his image of what the UCC should be. In his vision, UCC standards should be expanded beyond the grocery industry and across the ocean. It was Hal Juckett who recognized that the UCCs future lay in global supply chain management. When he joined UCC, it had a staff of 7.

Chris Kapsambelis

Chris Kapsambelis
BAR CODE DATA SYSTEMS
P.O. Box 3439, Pocasset, MA 02559
508-564-5345
chrisk@bdscorp.com

Steve Keddie

Steve Keddie
AIDC Senior Director for GS1 Global Office. Steven Keddie is an Electrical Engineer with 22 years in automotive working for both tier one and OEM (6 automotive patents) and 12 years in marking and coding (focused on FMCG manufacturing). An industry expert on printing technology with 2 marking and coding patents. 10 years as a member of the AIM TSC and author of “Is the GS1-128 barcode on course to become the preferred standard for retail grocery and foodservice packaging”. Leading a global migration to 2D barcode initiative that will see 2D pervasively use in Retail by 2027. Contributor to several SC31 work efforts and will be launching a new barcode resource for industry to ensure compliance with all GS1’s barcode syntaxes.

Nancy Kelly

Nancy Kelly
614-891-9218
nkelly2003@yahoo.com
Nancy Kelly Geer led the Auto ID Conference Department at Advanstar Communications (one of the world’s largest trade show/magazine management firms) for many years. As Director of Conferences & Special Events, she built the department from scratch, developing and producing all aspects of educational events aimed at increasing the awareness and understanding of Auto ID technologies among top and mid-level managers of such prestigious companies as Boeing, Federal Express, General Motors, Airbus and many others.
She built relations with the most influential leaders in the field of bar codes, RF/DC, RFID, biometrics and GPS, securing them as speakers for Scan-Tech, the industry’s largest international trade show. Called in to trouble shoot problems with Scan-Tech’s European events, she found solutions that led the show’s English and French conferences to their greatest attendance levels.
She additionally conceived and introduced ID Info, a series of regional Auto ID conferences and exhibitions produced throughout the United States. These events were held four times a year from 1996 through 2001 at various locations in the South, Midwest and on the East and West Coasts. She also initiated the country’s very first RFID Forum which took place in Philadelphia in 2001. Working closely with her colleagues at Advanstar’s Auto ID News magazine, she collaborated with industry associations, AIDC vendors and end users to spread Auto ID knowledge to a wide range of industries, including healthcare, transportation, warehousing and retailing.
In the infancy stages of our business community, she was responsible for “spreading the gospel” to thousands.
Ms. Kelly Geer is now retired and living in Columbus, OH.
- Phone
614-891-9218

John Kessler

John Kessler
John is a Senior Engineer with Paxar Americas, Inc. in Miamisburg Ohio. John has over 20 years of experience in the AIDC industry. Prior to joining Paxar John held positions with Mohawk Data Sciences in Herkimer, NY and Monarch Marking an operating unit of Pitney Bowes in Dayton, Ohio. AIDC background includes on-demand printing technologies, PSA label and tag converting, bar code, EAS and RFID. Johns career includes work in R&D and Engineering with paper, release liners, ink and open cell polymer formulation. John has been awarded 8 patents related to on-demand printing and label converting technologies. John holds a BS from Syracuse University. John represents Paxar on several industry standards organizations supporting the use of bar code and RFID technology for the AIDC industry. Industry organization participation includes AIM Global, REG and TSC, the GS1s GSC and EPCglobal, ANSI INCITS and the US TAG to ISO/IEC JCT1/SC31, TAPPI and the Imaging Science and Technology organizations.

Daniel Kimball

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.

John (Jack) Kindsvater

Dr. Patrick King

Dr. Patrick King
MICHELIN TIRE
515 Michelin Road, Greenville, SC 29605
Dr. King is the current leader for global electronics strategies for Michelin. His activities heavily involve external electronics supplier relations as well as product development program support around the world. Prior to joining Michelin Dr. King was founder of Technologies ROI, LLC consulting within the Supply Chain Industry and before that VP. Engineering for Marconi Infochain an ASP and RFID solutions provider. Dr. King has over 20 patents in the fields of Autoidentification, RfID, Imaging, Lasers and Printing.

Thomas Kirkham

Bud Klein

Bud Klein
Bud is an electrical engineering graduate of Georgia Tech with a MSEE from the University of Tennessee. He started working life in the early computer field with Oak Ridge National Lab as a member of a four man team to design and fabricate the first computer Oak Ridge had. The team went to Argonne National Lab near Chicago to work with the Argonne people to finish their first computer, and then build the Oak Ridge machine. He moved back to Oak Ridge with the machine and a new wife, and added many features to the machine to make it particularly useful for nuclear design work. Wishing to stay in the computer development area after the Government decided to leave that development area, he moved to Univac in Philadelphia, where he spent 10 more years developing smaller computers and peripheral devices for them as Director of Engineering with a 600 person engineering department. He then joined two smaller start-up companies, Cogar and Mohawk Industrial Labs in Utica, N.Y. where he spread his wings as general manager of what today would be called personal computers and associated devices. When MIL was sold to a major company, he joined Monarch Marking Systems (now PAXAR) in Dayton, Ohio, to help develop the first of the bar code devices then coming into use. He spent many years there developing state of the art marking machines and special tags and labels, including a very early surface mount based hand held bar code printer containing two microprocessors, label drive motors and all the required accessories. He is a long time member of the Engineers Club of Dayton and a member of the Advisory Board for the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Wright State University. He continues to consult with PAXAR, particularly in field of bar codes and RFID.

Bernard Knill

Bernard Knill
1927 – 2010
BERNARD I. KNILL, age 82, of Lakewood, Ohio passed away Friday, January 22, 2010. Bernard Knill won more than two dozen awards during six decades of industrial journalism. “Bernie Knill played the typewriter like Mozart played a piano,” wrote Tom Andel, who succeeded Knill in 2000 as chief editor of Penton Media’s former Material Handling Engineering magazine, now Material Handling Management. “Both composed masterpieces in their heads.” He was born in Cleveland and lived mostly in Lakewood. He worked for the magazine from 1957 to 2000 and contributed articles in retirement. According to the magazine, Knill inspired federal training rules for lift truck operators and helped his industry win a long turf war with elevator inspectors. His many honors included the first lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and a lifetime award from the Material Handling Industry Board of Governors. Beloved Husband of 56 years to Sally (nee Todia). Loving Father of Stephen Knill (Beth), Susan Knill (David Wood), Judith Ranallo (fiancé Jeff Todia), infant Michael (deceased), Barbara Rook (Mark), Rebecca Knill, and Karla Straight (Tim). Dearest Grandfather of Sam (Melissa) Ranallo, Shawn Straight (Sherri Masceline), Joe Ranallo, Matthew Rook, Cristian Knill, Libby Rook, Emma Wood, and Andrew Bostwick. Dear Brother of Albert and the late Mary Faust and David. Brother-in-law of Tom Todia, Mary Todia, Betty Jane Knill, and the late Joseph Todia, Robert Todia, David Faust, and Inez Knill. Great-grandfather of Julia Straight. Uncle and Great Uncle.

Harry Knowles

Harry Knowles
4 Parkway, Hanover, NH 03755

Ben Koike

Ben Koike
JAISA
1-9-5 Iwamoto-cho Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, 101-0032 JAPAN
011-813-5825-6651
benkoike@jaisa.or.jp
1970 Graduate of Tokyo Denki University Nippon Electric is better known as DENSEI. 1978 Developed Barcode Verifier His Auto ID work was initially on developing a bar code verification system and then became focused on CCD and laser based bar code scanners and terminals. DENSEI was one of pioneers in CCD based scanners. He both contributed to and subsequently managed the engineering efforts at DENSEI leading to technology advancements, cost reductions and performance, improvements in CCD and laser scanning technology. 1985 Joined it the establishment committee of AIM Japan as a volunteer 1986 He was a major force in the establishment of AIM Japan 1987-1994 Working group leader of AIM Japan as a volunteer. 1993-1995 Technical Board of AIM International 1995-1997 Board of Directors of AIM Japan 1998 Tokyo Technology service prize Award, based on technical promotion of barcode technology and applications in Japan. 2000 Present Joined the staff of AIM Japan as Secretary General of Japan Automatic Identification Systems Association (JAISA: Old name was AIM Japan). The primary education focus at JAISA has been to increase the understanding of RFID technology and application for the Japanese market.

Robert Lamoreaux

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.

George Laurer

George Laurer
776 Maggie Way Wendell, NC 27591

James Lawrence

James Lawrence
ANALOG TECHNOLOGIES
1859 Business Center Drive Duarte, CA 91010

Robert Leibrandt

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

Jack Loeffler

Andy Longacre

Karen Longe

Karen Longe
KAREN LONGE & ASSOCIATES
111 Huntington Lake Bluff, IL 60044
847-615-5421 (O)
k.longe@sbcglobal.net
Karen M. Longe is president of Karen Longe & Associates, Inc. a consulting firm specializing in the implementation of Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) in the healthcare industry. Ms. Longe has extensive experience in the healthcare and the AIDC industries. Her work experience includes marketing management positions with Monarch Marking Systems, Zebra Technologies Corporation and the American Hospital Association. In these positions she worked with healthcare professionals and bar code manufacturers, distributors and software integrators to assure the development of applications and the dissemination of bar code equipment and supplies that satisfy the needs of the healthcare market. She has served on numerous industry bar code standards committees including ANSI MH10.8, the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), and the Telecommunications Industry Forum (TCIF). She chaired the Health Industry Bar Code (HIBC) Provider Applications Standard committee and continues to serve on the Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC) Bar Code Technical Committee. Ms. Longe initiated and continues to chair the Healthcare Committee for AIM USA. Ms. Longe is an internationally recognized speaker and author. She is the author of the book UPN Bar Code Labeling: A Guide for Implementation in Healthcare and co-author of the book Bar Code Technology in Healthcare: A Tool for Enhancing Quality, Productivity and Cost Management. Ms. Longe was honored to receive the prestigious Percival Award for her efforts to advance the use of bar coding in the healthcare industry.

Mike Lowry

Mike Lowry
LOWRY COMPUTER PRODUCTS
9420 Maltby Road Brighton, MI 48116
810-229-7200
mikel@lowrycomputer.com
Since 1980, Michael Lowry has been the CEO and President of Lowry Computer Products, a family business started in 1974. When Mike took over as president, he expanded the companys Intel chips, processor boards, and components offering to include a line of computer peripheral products, and changed the companys name to Lowry Computer Products. Through his vision and leadership, Mike has helped identify and establish the companys niche. He transformed Lowry from a regional computer peripheral distributor to a leading national manufacturer and integrator of wireless, RFID-EPC bar code and data collection solutions that are in the vanguard of technology, equipment, and industry compliance. Through the years Mike has shared his industry knowledge and insight by participating on various Boards such as the AIM Global Organization – including an election to the current 2004 NA Board of Directors – and previous terms as the Chair of Finance. Other Boards include the Young Professionals Organization (YPO), the National City Bank of Ann Arbor, MI, and numerous other community, charity and political Boards. Mike is frequently featured and quoted in widely-read industry publications such as Business Solutions magazine, SCAN: the Data Capture Report, Business Direct Weekly, AIM Global Networks online RFID Connections Section, and Crains Detroit Business. Mike also shares his expertise by participating in various technology panel discussions. He will participate in the Truth in Technologies 2004 Conference sponsored by AIDC 100, where he will be a panelist on the Executive Technology Provider Perspective Panel. Despite challenging economic times nationwide, Lowry was listed as a top VARBusiness 500 Solution Provider in 2002 and 2003. Lowry was also named to Crains Detroit Business Private 200 companies list in 2002. Within the past few years, Mike has acquired an automated labeling systems business and a label conversion operation to help grow the companys offering and position Lowry in the rapidly emerging use of RFID-EPC technology. Mike has built an alliance with EPCglobal, an organization dedicated to education, creation of standards and implementation of EPC technology. Lowry is a founding Solution Provider in the organization.

Craig Maddox

Craig Maddox
153 Mystic Cove, SW Lilburn, GA 30047
770-717-5699
maddox.craig@gmail.com
Until his retirement in 2003, Craig Maddox was Director, Product Management and New Business Development, NCR RealScan, for NCR Corporations Retail Solutions Division. Craig joined NCR in 1986 and worked with various bar code scanner programs for all but one of his years with the company. Under his direction, NCR continuously created and introduced many breakthrough products, including the scanner/scale, innovative scanner software, the bi-optic scanner, sub-compact scanner, presentation scanner and hybrid RFID/bar code scanner. Craig was very involved in the study of use cases and also retail AIDC standardization. He served on many GS1 & GS1 US (then EAN & UCC) committees including the former Uniform Code Councils (UCC) Global Symbology Committee (now GS1 BCID TG) and Reduced Space Symbology (now GS1 DataBar) user groups for produce, variable measure and dairy-deli-bakery. He also has served as co-chair for the UCCs Quality Work Group and was a member of the following past UCC standing committees: UCC Supply Chain U (University) Formation EAN.UCC RSS Development Group EAN.UCC RSS Application Group EAN.UCC Couponing Committee FMI Ergonomic Task Force Maddox holds bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Industrial Management from Purdue University. He is the 2008 recipient of the Richard R. Dilling Award, the highest award given in the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) industry.

Thomas Manzagol

Thomas Manzagol
RFID GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INC.
11921Freedom Drive, Suite 970 Reston, VA 20190
866-734-3123 x812
tom.manzagol@rfidgs.com

Charles Mara

Brian Marcel

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Brian Marcel
IBCS GROUP
230 Sheen Lane, London SW14 8LB
44-778-525-4743
brianmarcel@gmail.com
Brian started his career in AIDC in 1979 selling Film Masters made by Datronic in Germany for Reed International, a paper manufacturing company. He was soon head-hunted by Photographic Sciences Corp., as it was then in 1981, to be European Marketing Manager to try and introduce the total barcode system concept of supplying hardware and software and consumables from one supplier into Europe. When PSC went into Chapter 11 a year or so later he was made redundant and set up Bar Code Systems to supply Film Masters and verifiers in 1983. During the 80s Bar Code Systems started manufacturing their own Film Masters and barcode printed labels and moved into supplying a total barcode solution. Prior to the bringing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Brian had already made lasting business contacts in the former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Having spotted the Eastern Bloc as a potential long-term AIDC burgeoning market he devised a model to develop joint venture partners in this area. In 1990 he formed International Bar Code Systems to develop this area and is now undisputed market leader in Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria. Brian has served AIM since 1985 in various roles such as Chairman of AIM UK, President of AIM Europe, and President of AIM International. He was the driving force behind the AIM UK Education Committee and the AIM UK Parliamentary Liaison committee. Achievements include introducing the first ever post-graduate Master of Science degree in Automatic Identification and the first AIM technical support laboratory at the University of Keele. He undertook a protracted lobbying campaign with the Tory Government to raise the awareness of AIDC, culminating in the first ever British Government initiative in AIDC to raise awareness of the technology with SMEs (small and medium size enterprises). Brian has written a book about all this called Raise the Bar Change the Game turning it into a success primer for budding entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Brian lives with his wife Lisa and has a daughter Jessica adopted from Romania.

Mark Marriott

Mark Marriott
Little Compton, Fairmile Park Road Cobham Surrey, KT112PG ENGLAND
44-1938-67402
mark@themarriotts.biz

Donald Martin

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

Bill McCubbins

Bill McCubbins
POS DATA
5775 Soundview Drive-Bldg E Gig Harbor, WA 89335
800-852-3282
mccubbinsb@posdata.com

Rick McDonald

Rick McDonald
McDONALD, Rick
4088 Little Creek Drive South
Spencer IN 47460
808 223 7708
Career
Had short periods in public accounting, family printing business and the U. S. Army (6 months active – 6 years reserve)
Tennessee Eastman Company, Kingsport tN – System design and programmed IBM 650, 1401, 7070, 360 computers for a variety of manufacturing control systems.
Kingsport Press, Kingsport TN – Manager of Information Services developing manufacturing control systems.
Arcata Data Management, Hawthorne CA – Director of Information Services publishing airline illustrated parts catalogs for maintenance.
Data Composition, San Francisco CA – General Manager typesetting and printing telephone directories.
Data Composition Inc, Richmond CA – President and CEO bar code label printing company. Developed MIS system to control business information.
Data 2, Richmond CA and St. Louis MO Vice President Marketing – a merger of Data Composition and Datapage Technologies.
Rick retired 9-9-99, a date he chose for the symbolism to the early programming days. Punched cards had all 9’s tin the control field to indicate the last card to initiate the end of job routines. Rick and LaDonna moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Mendocino County where they owned a redwood forest of 68 acres they called EOJ Ranch. EOJ was a command in COBOL language for end of job.
Rick and LaDonna owned a wedding facility and restaurant, Ricks of Mendocino, in the Hill House Inn, Mendocino CA
Rick and LaDonna live in Spencer Indiana and travel extensively – at least until Covid19 blocked travel plans.
AIM/AI DC100
Joined AIM in 1979 as the first bar code label printing member. Served as chair of membership committee and all of the first Scantech trade shows. Elected president in 1985 and 1986. During this administration AIM split off from the Material Handling Institute to become an independent trade association. Received Dilling Award in 1986. Became a founding member of AIDC100.
Education
1968 BS University of Kentucky
1968 MS University of Tennessee
1972 PMD Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration

Paul V. McEnroe

Paul V. McEnroe
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 25th 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.

Dennis McGrath

Dennis McGrath
PAC MACHINERY GROUP
775 Berea Industrial Pkwy Berea, 44017
415-306-3260
dennism@pacmachinery.com
Have been on the boards of AIM,MHI and PMMI. Formerly employed by Weber Marking Systems for over 32 years.

Gary McRae

Scott Medford

Scott Medford
972-771-1653-x209
469-585-0007 (m)
scott.medford@impinj.com
Scott Medford is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the AIDC industry, preceded by 10 years in technical support and services. Medford is currently a partner at Genesta, a high tech system integration organization specializing in RFID, speech recognition, and advanced wireless systems. It is the culmination of a career built on technical, sales, and management expertise applied on a global basis. Scott most recently served as the VP of RFID for Intermec Technologies, focusing the company efforts in product marketing, strategy, business development and technical support for the emerging market. That role also embraced international standards, including ISO and EPCglobal. He served on the board of directors of AIM Global during a period of rebuilding the industry organization, which included a term as founding board member of AIM NA. While at Intermec, Scott created the position of VP, Global Alliances and Business Development, and established a vertical market focus for the company. The Alliance program established the relationships with such industry giants as IBM, Cisco, Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft. Scott also served as Director of Retail Solutions, launching Intermec into retail from its prior focus in industrial markets. From 1998 through 2000, Scott served as VP Business Development for SyVox, a start up in speech recognition based in Boulder City, CO. The product and assets were eventually acquired by Genesta and are now becoming mainstream in the AIDC industry. Medford’s sales career in the AIDC industry began in 1986 at MSI (later acquired by Symbol), where he received top sales awards every year. He introduced numerous new products into the market, including the first UHF and Spectrum One systems. Moving to Norand in 1991, Medford took top sales honors for the next 5 years, and then moved into management to guide the company forward, including the integration into Intermec in 1997. Scott Medford is a native Texan, born in Colorado City in 1951 and growing up in Big Spring. He attended Arlington Baptist College, and then served in the Navy. He somehow has managed to snag a lovely bride, Vickie, and the marriage has prevailed for 31 years. One daughter, Courtney, is the 17 year old light of his life. Interests include music, particularly the guitars which have been with him for over 40 years, and his M3.

Richard Meyers

Chairman Emeritus
Richard Meyers
DELTA SERVICES
221 Duncan Trail, Longwood, FL 32779
407-788-2289
meyers@cfl.rr.com
Richard B. Meyers was founder and President of Delta Services in 1988 and worked with Bar Coding and other Automatic ID Technologies for 42 years until his retirement in 2010. In retirement, and as Chairman Emeritus of the AIDC 100, Dick remains very active with that organization’s activities serving on the Leadership Council and Website committee. He is very supportive of some Missionary friends while developing and maintaining two of their websites and providing other guidance. Dick stays very busy on a daily basis with his own website and many computer design activities and finds it very difficult to stop at 5pm for some R&R! Prior to his retirement, Dick served in management positions that have been related to and aimed at the enhancement of the manufacturing and retailing industries. Mr. Meyers was a frequent speaker at industry trade shows. In addition to writing two books, he authored “The Ten Commandments of Bar Coding” plus many articles for world-wide publication. He spent many years working on various standards committees including the AIAG and FACT and has provided guidance to many individual companies and organizations for the purpose of creating their internal bar code standards. Dick spent nearly 25 years with NCR as a Systems Analyst, Marketing Director and Product Manager. He also was an Assistant-to-the President of an apparel manufacturer and spent 10 years with a major department store as a Buyer. He has been closely associated with senior executives on a worldwide basis and has conducted seminars in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and South Africa. In 1997, Dick was inducted as a charter member of the prestigious AIDC 100 organization. For nearly eight years, he served as Chairman of AIDC 100 and currently is a member of the Leadership Council. He has received numerous awards for meritorious service to the AIDC industry.

Ray Meyo

Ray Meyo

Marlin H. Mickle

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

Tee Migliori

Tee Migliori
ADC TECHNOLOGIES
4631 Teller Avenue Ste 130 Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-752-2328
tmigliori@adctech.com

Tom Miller

Tom Miller
14031 237th Place NE Woodinville, WA 98077
425-844-8257
425-239-8927(m)
tom@the-sage-group.com
For more than 20 years, Thomas Miller has faithfully served the Automatic Identification Industry. Tom is past Vice President of UNOVA, Inc., and President of UNOVA’s wholly owned subsidiary, Intermec Technologies Corporation. Tom now provides outstanding guidance to the AIDC industry as the President of AIM. At Intermec, Tom served as Executive Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing from 2001 to 2003 and before that as Senior Vice President: System and Solutions since 1998. Tom served as Norand Corporations President from March 1997 to January 1998. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Sales from January 1996 until March 1997 when the Company was acquired by Intermec. He joined Norand in 1982 and held various executive management positions, including Vice President of Direct Store Delivery and Vice President of Marketing and Customer Service, contributing significantly to the success and growth of these operations. Tom serves on the Board of Directors of Eagle Point Software of Dubuque, Iowa and is President of the Linn-Mar School Board, the fastest growing school district in Iowa. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Theatre Cedar Rapids and is a member of Priority One, an economic development organization for Eastern Iowa. Tom received a Bachelors degree in 1973 and a Masters degree in 1974 in Business Administration from Western Illinois University.

Richard Mindlin

Richard Mindlin
1914-2001
1914-2004 Legacy Member The year 1978 marked a significant change for the Code Council. After 5 years of contracting U.P.C. administration, the Board of Governors decided it was more economical to transfer code administration to a hired staff. They quickly found their candidate among their own. Dick Mindlin, Vice President at NCR, Board member and co-chair of STAC, agreed to take early retirement from NCR and open an office for the UPCC in Dayton, Ohio. Dick Mindlin spent most of his career dealing with automatic identification standards. Before the U.P.C., he was involved with the development of the MICR magnetic-stripe standard used by the banking industry on checks. Beginning January 1, 1978, all technical inquiries would be referred to Mindlin and by January 31 all administration would be transferred to Dayton. On January 1, 1978, the Board of Governors opened its own offices in Dayton with Mindlin as Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer. Mindlin was signed to a 5 year contract. He remained in charge of the UPCC through 1984 when his successor took over. Mindlin made a special effort to preserve and enhance the role of STAC. At least once a year STAC members were invited to attend a Board of Governors meeting. STAC-type issues were featured at these meetings, and the Board was effusive in expressing its gratitude for the volunteer efforts of the STAC members. Mindlins great contributions to the UCC was that he made an independent, free-standing organization a reality. He left a healthy organization for his successor to build upon.

Amos Judson Miner

Amos Judson Miner
362 Sherwood Drive Carol Stream, IL 60188
Jud Miner joined Watson Label Products in 1986 from the chemical industry as sales manager of their photocomposed bar code label division. He spoke frequently at trade association conferences and was awarded a certificate of appreciation as Chair-Education/Public Relations Subcommittee in 1994 by Telecommunications Industry Forum. In December, 1993 he was awarded an industry changing patent on pressure sensitive bar code labels that could withstand the heat involved in Reflo oven curing of printed circuit boards to add to printed circuit board useful life. He was a graduate of Wesleyan University, Connecticut and the MIT business executives Masters Degree program. His articles on bar codes in harsh environments were published in numerous trade journals.

Bert Moore

Bert Moore
1949-2012
Bert Moore was the Director of IDAT Consulting & Education, a Hickory, NC based firm that helps companies evaluate, select, develop, and implement automatic identification and data collection (AIDC) solutions. AIDC includes bar codes, radio frequency identification (RFID), magnetic stripe, contact memory and similar technologies. IDAT is one of the few technology- and vendor-independent consulting firms in the country. Moore has been in the center of the AIDC industry since 1985 and has been active in many industry and national standards organizations. Moore has developed and presented educational programs for corporate, industry, national, and international seminar programs. He has performed consulting, market research, technology evaluations and standards development for technology vendors and end-users. His clients have included both large and small companies. He was formerly the Director of Technical Communications for AIM USA, served as the Executive Director of FACT (Federation of Automated Coding Technologies), was a 1992 recipient of the AIM USA Industry Service Award, and was selected as a charter member of the “AIDC 100,” an association of individuals who have made significant contributions to education within the AIDC industry. Moore is a former contributing editor for Frontline Solutions and Material Handling Management and has also served as managing editor of AIM’s ScanJournal and editor of Parcel Shipping & Distribution. He may also be remembered for writing the monthly Data Collection column for P&IM Review from 1988-1992. He contracted part-time to AIM, the AIDC industry’s global trade association, as the Director of Technical Communications and Media Relations, writes/edits AIM’s monthly “AIM Connections” and “RFID Connections” e-newsletters, and serves as staff for AIM’s Technical Symbology Committee (TSC) and RFID Experts Group (REG).

Rick Morgan

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

Martin Morrison

Martin Morrison
AXICON AUTO ID
Church Road, Weston-on–the-Green Oxfordshire, England, OX2 53QP
T: +44(0) 1869 351 155
D: +44(0) 1869 352 420
F: +44(0) 1869 351 205
mm@axicon.com
Martin Morrison started in the AIDC industry when he joined Axicon (formerly Microplotter Engineering) in 1989 as a design engineer working on their range of bar code products which were focussed on the generation and quality control of bar code film masters and printed symbols. As a regular member of SC31/WG1, Martin has been involved with the development and maintenance of many ISO symbology and print quality standards and in 2013, following the passing of Axicon’s founder Peter Hicks, Martin became Axicon’s Managing Director.

Dan Mullen

Dan Mullen
5242 Karrington Drive Gibsonia, PA 15044
724-443-2289
daniel.mullen@gmail.com
Mr. Mullen is past President of AIM Global, the trade association for Automatic Identification and Mobility. As an industry advocate, Mr. Mullen strives to present a balanced view of the technologies — including their strengths and limitations. He has appeared on CNN and been interviewed by many local, national, and international media outlets, including BusinessWeek and Fortune, addressing bar code, radio frequency identification (RFID) and many other AIM technology topics. Prior to this leadership position Dan, as VP Operations, managed all marketing, finance, and membership development aspects of the Association. Previously, Mr. Mullen served as the Vice President, Technology. In this role he managed the development of industry and national standards efforts. He was the industry’s primary liaison with national standards setting organizations such as the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Dan serves as Chairman of AIM ADC1, the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for ISO/IEC SC31, and the international standards committee for Automatic Identification and Data Capture. Under his guidance, AIM symbology standards have moved from industry documents to internationally accepted specifications. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a degree in electrical engineering, Mr. Mullen has also earned an MBA from Duquesne University.

John Nachtrieb

John Nachtrieb
BARCODE TEST, LLC
54 W. Downer Place Aurora, IL 60506
(630) 235-6077
john@barcode-test.com

Takashi Nakagami

Ben Nelson

Ben Nelson
1926-2001
Benjamin A. Nelson, 74 died Saturday morning September 15, 2001 at his home in East Swanzey after a battle with cancer. He was born in Keene October 3, 1926, son of Benjamin Adelbert and Marion (Greenleaf) Nelson, and graduated from Keene High School in 1944. During World War II, her served in the U.S. Army’s 752nd tank battalion, 88th Division in Italy. He was a Captain in the N.H. National Guard and was recalled to active duty during the Cuban missle crisis in 1962. Mr. Nelson was the company archivist at Markem Corp. in Keene, retiring in 1995 after 42 years with the company. At the time of his death, he was still serving as the companys archivist. As a spokesman for Markem, he spoke to more than 300 trade associations and universities in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and wrote many papers. In 1985, he received an industry award for his efforts to introduce bar-coding at the School of Packaging at Michigan State University. He served on many bar-code industry boards and in retirement consulted to that industry. In 1995, he formed Nelson Associates, devoted to education in automatic identification. In 1997, Helmers Publishing of Peterborough published his history of the industry, Punched Cards to Bar Codes – A 200-Year Journey.” Mr. Nelson enjoyed reading, many kinds of music, woodworking, collecting and showing antique tractors and engines, and travel. He was also a private pilot. Survivors include his wife Eunice Ann (Scuf) (Parker) Nelson whom he married May 27, 1948, a daughter, Leslie Nelson Haines of Houston, a son, Douglas Nelson of East Swanzey, two grandchildren, and a niece and a nephew. A memorial service will be held Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Fletcher Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 33 Marlboro St., Keene. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery, Keene. Friends may call Tuesday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the funeral home.

Jeff Nolan

Jeff Nolan
614-431-3300
jeffn@ais-co.com
Automatic Identification Systems Inc. more than 20 years – first hand experience in all aspects of AIDC projects with some of the biggest and best companies in automotive, healthcare and retail
Leadership – Jeff has grown into the leadership role at AIS. He has lead in our integration projects, product development and more recently in our community participation.
Jeff’s clients are global and he is often called upon to handle AIDC and UDI issues in other countries. This has given him a well rounded and broad perspective.
Doting father to my beautiful granddaughter
Jeff has a deep understanding of our industry because of his extensive experience. He has vision and provides leadership in his projects for clients as well as in community participation.
Developed and implemented several new barcode technologies for:
- Supply Chain & Logistics- shipping label (SSCC) compliance system with integrated chargeback mechanism now in use across the US in retail warehouses
- Manufacturing – An automated DPM marking system for large parts with integrated machine vision ISO inspection system – now in use by major auto manufacturer in an advanced manufacturing program
- Healthcare- Modern semi-automated, efficient, transparent Medical device recall system – this is part of Jeff’s work with the AHRMM LUC Workgroup
- Developed a small robotic arm on a barcode printer that automatically prints, inspects/verifies the label, and applies or destroys & reprints depending on ISO results – has the unique advantage of being able to apply labels to different positions on the parts depending on the part ID.
- Regulated drug samples distributing system

Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan
AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS
397 Venture Drive Westerville, OH 43801 USA
800-247-1177
614-579-3300 (m)
mktg@ais-co.com
Mike Nolan is President of Automatic Identification Systems Inc., a computer systems integration house in Columbus, Ohio. Nolan has been involved in bar coding for over 30 years and RFID for over l0 years. In the early years, he was the marketing manager for a major supplier to the retail industry. Twenty years ago, he founded AIS with the goal of helping local industrial clientele obtain the best results from barcode technology. Since that time, AIS has been integrating/delivering systems into Europe, South America, the Far East and, of course, the United States. The company has experience in a variety of platforms, including mini-computers, PC’s, handheld terminals and handheld wireless terminals. They specialize in applications using the AUTO ID technologies such as barcode, RFID, voice recognition and magnetic stripe technology. Nolan has authored several commercially available PC packages including SCANALYSTTM, the popular bar code print quality system, and CALIB, an ISO 9000/QS9 000 calibration and verification groupware solution. KartKeeperTM, the RFID based greenhouse cart tracking solution is also an AIS product. AIS is currently working with several clients on other RFID applications such as quality control and traceability. Nolan is a mechanical engineer who studied at Marquette University. He has been a guest speaker on systems integration at Ohio University’s Center for Automatic ldentification and at various AIM (Automatic Identification Manufacturers Association) conferences. He has also been a speaker for the Uniform Code Council’s Bar Code Quality workshops.

Mike Noll

Heinrich Oehlmann

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.

Ho-Keun Oh

Ho-Keun Oh
INTERMEC TECHNOLGOIES
1079-8, Hansung Villa Namhyun-Dong, Kwanak-Ku Seoul, 151-080 KOREA
82-17-201-1351
mobileoh@empal.com
Experience SEP 2004 – Present: Country Manager, Intermec Technologies NOV 1997 – AUG 2004: Country Manager, Symbol Technologies, Korea Office AUG 1996 – NOV 1997: President, ADC Technology, Inc. MAR 1993 – JUL 1996: General Manager AUTO ID, Cheil Comtech, Ltd. MAR 1990 – FEB 1993: General Secretary, AIM Korea NOV 1998 – FEB 1990: Manager, Paradise Barxon, Inc. JAN 1983 – OCT 1988: Engineer, Daewoo Telecom, Co., Ltd. Authored What is Bar Code? Introduction of Bar Code, Equipment and Application What is EDI? Introduction to EDI, QR, JIT and Application Recent Bar Code Technology and Application Introduction to 2D Symbology, Material Handling Bar Code Standards and RF Data Communication and its Application Additional Accomplishments 2000 – Present: Technical Committee Member of Agency for Technologies & Standards, Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Energy MAY 1995 – Present: Editing Consultant, Monthly Auto-ID Magazine MAR 1993 – DEC 1995: Bar Code Seminar Speaker, National Small and Medium Company Promotion Institute Education MAR 1979 – FEB 1983: B.A., Automatic Control and Instrumentation, Seoul National University

Mike Ohanian

Mike Ohanian
M. OHANIAN – CONSULTANT
28 Martingale Lane Andover, MA 01810
978-475-9117
713-302-0119 (m)
954-781-7097
sohanian@msn.com
Mike Ohanian, retired President of Intermec Technologies Corporation and also served as Vice President of the Federal Systems Group. Prior to joining Intermec, he served in a consultant capacity, beginning in January 1987, with responsibility for the companys entry into prime government contract bidding. Ohanian was directly instrumental in the companys being awarded its first major government contract, the LOGMARS NT contract. Appointed President in May 1995, his responsibilities now include the overall operations and strategic direction of the company. Prior to Intermec, Ohanian was Vice President of Operations at Parks-Jaggers Aerospace Co., Orlando, Florida; Vice President of Operations at Martin-Mariettas Electronic Systems division in Orlando; Vice President of Litton Resources Systems, Houston, TX; and held various management positions at Raytheon Co., Bedford, MA. He received a B.S.E.E. from Merrimack College and pursued graduate studies at Northeastern University in Boston, MA and at the University of Wisconsin. Ohanian is a member of the Board of Directors of AIM, the data collection industrys trade association; and, he is a board member of the Everett Performing Arts Council. Ohanian is also a Senior Vice President for UNOVA, Inc.

Jack O’Leary

Andrew Osborne

Andrew Osborne
GS1-UK
Staple Court 11 Staple Inn Buildings London, WC1V 7QH ENGLAND
44-20-7092-3518
andrew.osborne@gs1uk.org
Andrew Osborne is Chief Technical Officer at GS1 UK, the leading independent association in the UK dedicated to the development and implementation of global data standards and solutions for the supply chain. He led the Article Number Association (UK) from 1979 until its merger with the ECA in 1998 and was centrally involved in the development of the EAN standards for business data, bar coding and EDI throughout this time. Andrew also managed the international GTAG” project which created standards for radio frequency identification. An internationally respected expert on the GS1 System, Andrew oversees the development of the GS1 standards in the UK and continues to be an active participant in GS1 internationally. He chaired the GS1 Technical Steering Team, creating international technical policy, for four years and is currently a member of the team that advises the Management Board on GS1 system architecture.

Roger Palmer

Roger Palmer
RETIRED
250-812-7517
roger@paltec.ca
Roger Palmer co-founded three instrumentation companies starting in 1970, then worked at Intermec Corp. from 1978 to 1994 as Vice President of Technology. In 1994 he opened a consulting business called Palmer Technologies Inc., and operated as its principle until he retired in 2015. He wrote “The Bar Code Book”, which is the authoritative text in the field. He also authored “An Intoduction To RF Circuit Design For Communication Systems” in 2016.

Bjorn Passad

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
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.

John Paxton

Don R. Percival

Don R. Percival
DECEASED
Don founded Machinery Electrification (subsequently MEKontrol, Inc.) in 1948 in the basement of his home and actively participated in its growth until his death in 1980. ME initially specialized in designing control systems for machine tools. Over the years, he expanded the offerings to electrical control equipment for all types of industrial machinery and processes including identification subsystems that used photoelectrics and unique identification devices to track and control product flow through manufacturing operations and warehouses. Don attended the University of Michigan, working in the automotive industry in quality control, production planning, plant layout and related areas throughout his university years. Upon graduation, he joined the test and sales programs at General Electric where he designed custom machine tool control equipment. He moved from GE to become the chief electrical engineer for the Machine Tool Division of the Norton Company in Worcester, MA before leaving to launch Machinery Electrification a couple of years later. Don was the recipient of many industry awards, including several patents and the Society for Advancement of Managements prestigious Progress of New England honor. He was a member and officer of a number of professional and civic organizations, served on the Board of Trustees of Central New England College and distinguished himself as an avid, nationally ranked tennis player and devoted family man. In 1971, Don co-founded the Automatic Identification Manufacturers (AIM) Product Section of the Material Handling Institute (MHI). He became the first chairman of the group in 1972, serving in that role and as a member of MHIs Board of Directors through 1973. Dons leadership and vision laid the foundation for AIMs growth and, with it, the growth of the entire industry. Indeed, the annual Percival Award that is given to an individual or organization from the user community to recognize outstanding AIDC (Automatic Identification & Data Capture) contributions was established by the industry in his honor in 1982.

Bruce Philpot

Bruce Philpot
1951-2006

George Plesko

George Plesko
CONSULTANT
7 Magnolia Way Chadds Ford, PA 19317
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.

Andrew Price

Andrew Price
Andrew Price is an aviation industry leader who began his career as a software engineer and ATC instructor and has worked for nearly 30 years in the fields of passenger experience enhancement and terminal and baggage handling system design. Andrew spearheaded the introduction of RFID into the airline industry for use in baggage identification and the resulting standard has also been adopted for cargo container tracking. Starting in 1999 by running trials for British Airways using products from Philips Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and Omron, he has pursued RFID through developments such as the introduction of UHF C1G2 technologies until the technology was finally recommended for global adoption by all airlines in June 2019 by unanimous vote at the IATA Annual General Meeting. Andrew continues to work in the area of RFID, improving the IATA standard as the market develops and assisting airlines and airports in adopting the technology. The major challenge ahead is ensuring that the majority of bags are tagged with RFID labels before 2025. Andrew received his Bachelor of Engineering degree with Honors from the University of the South West, his PGDip. in Information Systems Engineering from the London South Bank University and an MBA from the UK’s Open University.

Dennis Priddy

Peter Ramirez

Peter Ramirez
AFMC LSO/LOA
5215 Thurlow St. Ste 5- Bldg. 70C Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433
937-257-4118
peter.ramirez@wpafb.af.mil

Mark Reboulet

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).

Richard Rees

Richard Rees

Mark Roberti

Mark Roberti
Principal, RFID Strategies
Mark Roberti is a journalist with 25 years of experience covering business and technology. He launched RFID Journal from a spare bedroom in his home in March 2002. Today, it is the leading source of news and analysis about radio frequency identification and its many business applications. More than 200,000 people around the world visit the RFID Journal Web site each month, and RFID Journal LIVE!, the company’s annual conference and exhibition in the United States, has become the largest gathering of RFID vendors and end users in the world. Prior to launching RFID Journal, Roberti was a senior writer at the Industry Standard and managing editor of InformationWeek. His work has appeared in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and many other publications. After leaving RFID Journal, he founded RFID Strategies in 2023.

Larry Roberts

Larry Roberts
5905 Beacon Hill Lane Erie, PA 16509
412-480-5116
814-806-6202 (m)
larry471@icloud.com
Larry W. Roberts is ceo of RMG Enterprises, Inc, an information services company that provides products and services to various technology based industries. Prior to becoming ceo of RMG, he served a number of years as the ceo of the Automatic Identification Manufacturers, Inc (AIM), the global trade organization for the automatic identification and data capture industry. Since graduating from Robert Morris University, Mr. Roberts has accumulated over twenty-seven years experience in business management, with twenty years in the trade association sector. During his twenty years with associations Mr. Roberts held progressively responsible executive positions. The industries represented by the associations include transportation, electronics, industrial gas, and automatic identification and data capture. He became a Certified Association Executive (CAE) from the American Society of Association Executives in 1996. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AIDC 100 Member AIDC 100 Leadership Council Member Robert Morris University Alumni Association – Member and Past President EDUCATION B.S.B.A., Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

John Robertson

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.

Jack Romaine

Jack Romaine
ELEMENT ID
Mr. Romaine brings a strong mix of managerial, financial, and technical skills to Element ID. He has over ten years of electronics industry operations experience in industrial automation and headed the RFID development at Accu-Sort Systems from roughly 1998-2000. He currently holds four patents and has been published by SPIE. Immediately prior to starting Element ID, Mr. Romaine spent six years working as a sell-side financial analyst on Wall Street. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and was Bloomberg Markets Magazines Top Semiconductor Analyst of 2003, as well as a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, and Bloomberg Radio. He received a BSEE, MSEE, and an MBA Finance from Lehigh University

Donald Roxby

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

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.

Larry Russell

Larry Russell
1117 Michigan Avenue Wilmette, IL 60091
Larry Russell served as Project Manager for McKinseys engagement with the Grocery Industry Ad Hoc Committee of top company CEOs. Active in all areas of the work including the code decisions, he was especially influential and determinant in the work of the Symbol Selection Sub Committee that recommended the UPC symbol. It achieved the goal of accommodating all printing processes at virtually no incremental cost and met the extraordinarily high reading accuracy requirements set by users. He is a brilliant engineer and business expert. His thinking changed concepts and merged the diverse foci of the potential technology providers with the industries requirements. He led the work to define a total system based on utilizing careful engineering studies coupled with industry-wide cost benefit analyses that lent a firm sense of balance and strategic direction to the result. The standard was developed and implemented in less than 4 years. He was largely responsible for how the complex project was presented to sponsors, industry leaders, government oversight agencies and the public at large. It showed the depth and accuracy of the work in straightforward but dramatic terms. This work and his decision to present it in one-on-one session with industry leaders took vast energy, which Larry expended with ease and grace. At the time of the announcement – 4/1/1973 – there were no objections. All told, Larry played a major role in claiming the future for AIDC and establishing the credibility for the work of the Ad Hoc Committee.

Robert Rylander

Robert Rylander
1014 Harrison Avenue Canon City, CO 81212
719-276-8448
719-671-1668 (m)
barcoderwr@aol.com
Robert W. Rylander is President of Robert W. Rylander and Associates, Inc. Robert Rylander has worked in the bar code industry for the past twenty years. Member of the AIDC; Automatic Identification / Data Capture 100 professional organization. Seven years with Symbol Technologies Inc. as Senior Manager of Consulting Services for the Worldwide Education Group and prior to that Senior Consultant, INTERMEC Corporation. He has worked in manufacturing for over 23 years and has held managerial positions in the Quality Assurance field for several large corporations. While Quality Assurance Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation, Mr. Rylander chaired the corporations bar code standardization committee. During the period that he was in manufacturing, he managed the implementation of Shop Floor and Inventory bar code systems for ITT, Storage Technology, and Digital Equipment Corporation. For the past several years, he has consulted for over two hundred industries in the development of Bar Code Strategic Plans and Bar Code Standards. These industries range from Electronics, Aerospace, Retail, Medical, Food Processing, and Heavy Industry. He has performed bar code design, and cost justification studies for such corporations as: IBM, Ford Aerospace, General Foods, GTE, Porsche North America, Dow Chemical, Lockheed, Naval Air Rework Facility, and United Airlines to name a few. Has been a member of the EIA standard committee for several years, responsible for developing standards for the Electronics Industry. Mr. Rylander was awarded first place in the Materials Handling Institutes, Concepts For The 80’s”, for his total live shop floor control and bar code concepts. Conducts seminars and bar code workshops for several organizations and universities including Frontline Solutions (SCAN-TECH), IOPP, APICS, Purdue, State University of New York, Kansas State, Wisconsin, Boise State, Eastern Washington and Lewis and Clark Collage. For the past twelve years he has conducted bar code workshops in the Pacific Rim countries of Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Robert has now developed CD courses on AIDC

Mitsuaki Sato

Mitsuaki Sato
JAISA
1-9-5 Iwamoto-cho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, 101-0032 Japan
81-3-5825-6651
m-sato@jaisa.or.jp

Dick Sawyer

Dick Sawyer
DENSEI – USA
P.O. Box 120382 New Brighton, MN 55112
651-636-3030
888-410-3030
rgs@techscancorp.com

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Bob Scaringe

Fred Schramm

Fred Schramm
SCHRATECH
630 Shadowbrook Road Winchester, TN 37398
931-703-0581
fred@schratech.com
Mr. Schramm has industrial experience in aluminum production and as an engineering consultant. Now retired from NASA after nearly 25 years, he served as a production engineer for the Space Shuttle External Tank and Space Shuttle Main Engine Projects. He also spent three years developing production and operations plans for advanced launch vehicle concepts. Mr. Schramm is currently the administrator of the Independent Research and Development Program, a program for some of NASAs most advanced research, in the Technology Transfer Department at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), near Huntsville, Alabama. For the past 12 years he has formed partnerships between NASA and the private sector to make commercial products from NASA technologies. He has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Tennessee Technological University and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering Management from the University of Tennessee. He is an inventor, holding nine patents with one pending. He was named to “Who’s Who at NASA” by NASA Tech Briefs Magazine in August 2000 and March 2004. He was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame in April 2001 for his accomplishments in identification technologies. He was accepted into the AIDC 100 organization in March 2003 for his pioneering contributions to industry. He received the Federal Laboratory Consortium Excellence in Technology Transfer Award in May 2003.

Robert Schubenel

Robert Schubenel
NET SOLUTIONSGS1
Wasgenring 25 Basel, CH 4055 SWITZERLAND
41-61-382-94-16
41-79-443-19-25 (m)
r.schubenel@gs1.ch
Since Oct. 2005 Director Net Solutions, GS1 Brussels A start-up organization within GS1 to ensure linkage of ADIC technologies and internet based network solutions including PKI, Mobile Computing, and Data Validation through the standardization of global networking solutions. March 1986 – Oct. 2005 18 year CEO of EAN Switzerland After the merger of EAN, SGL and ECR into GS1 Switzerland, Robert was named a member of the board of the new organization. Special achievements within EAN Switzerland: Delegate of Switzerland in UN/ECE WP4, part of the team that created the first EDIFACT message. Elaboration and contract for control of the flow of narcotic substances. Approved by the Swiss government and accepted by the UNDCP (United Nations Drug Control Program). This concept includes bar-coding narcotic substances and controlling their flow by custom designed EDIFACT messages. Several functions within the EAN and GS1 organization: Member of the working party harmonization of global GS1 communication systems. Key contributor and member of the GS1 AIDC Technical Groups: GS1 Global Symbology Committee and its predecessor the Symbol Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), TSC (technical subcommittee) of EAN International, and the GS1 Technical Steering Team (TST). Convener of the TEC-CORE working group responsible for the global harmonization of the EAN/UCC General Specifications. Heavily involved in AIDC and Information system design and implementation with the user and vendor communities in. Responsible for the design and global implementation of the GS1 Global Party Information Registry (GEPIR). Several functions in GS1member company working groups Supply chain standards manager within Nestlé, Vevey Member of the Kraft Jacob Suchard team for re-designing the internal article database. Nov. 1975 – Feb. 1986 Managing Director of Interdispo Datenservice AG, the datacenter for the automotive trade Before taking the management function, designer of in-house applications for Garages including the analyses, programming, and the installation of these systems throughout Europe.

Rick Schuessler

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.

Ted Schultze

Ted Schultze
Prefix-Xchange, Inc./President
The Bar Code Doctor-TM
+1.763.229.2039 direct
tschultze@prefix-xchange.com
Professional Chronology Symbology, Inc. 1996 Opens printing division as specialty manufacturer of sequentially numbered and custom constructed bar code labels and tags Inspection Systems, Inc. – Founder and President 1990 High Speed Bar Code Verification equipment design/manufacture Symbology, Inc. – Founder and President 1980 Worlds largest manufacturer of bar code electronic images and film masters Bureau of Engraving, Inc. Product Manager 1972-1980 H.S. Crocker Co., Inc. Sales Representative 1964-1972 U.S. Army 1963 Memberships / Activities AIDC 100 – Selected as member 2005 Members are individuals who have been recognized as having significantly contributed to the advancement of the Automatic Identification and Data Collection industry. Consultant – Bar Code Doctor” for manufacturers, print-service and pre-press providers, and end users Bar code standards, pre and post press production, error prevention, quality system development, policy development. Bar code liability reduction through negotiations, expert witness Member AIM, UCC, DMIA Implements Symbology ISO Certification program 1994 Frequently-quoted industry resource for trade journals Delivers/designs hundreds of educational and training bar code seminars. Training/consulting customers include Uniform Code Council, Inc, Johnson & Johnson, Mark Trece, Inc., Southern Graphics Systems, Inc. Snapple, Inc. Past President, Symbol Masters Association 1975 Film masters manufacturers advisory group Secretary and Founder, Distribution Symbology Study Group. 1975-1983 The DSSG recommended I- 2 of 5 as the standard for numeric labeling of corrugated shipping containers. It was thus adopted by the Uniform Product Code Council as the standard symbology for outer shipping containers world wide. Education Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota; MEP DePaul University Harper Junior College

Frank Sharkey

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

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

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

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

Bonney Shuman

Bonney Shuman
135 Pine Valley St. Simons Island, GA 31522
Bonney Shuman is retired. Formerly served as CEO of Stratix Corporation, which has helped hundreds of end users, distributors and other organizations, gain a competitive advantage by utilizing bar coding since 1983. Ms. Shuman has worked with many industries and companies in the establishment of their bar code guidelines. A noted lecturer, she conducts numerous seminars each year that focus on the benefits of bar coding and other automatic data capture technologies. She was primarily responsible for the content of A Guide to Bar Coding, which has been recognized as a leading reference manual for those interested in utilizing automatic data capture. Bonney is a past member of the Board of Directors for the automatic data capture trade association, AIM, USA. She served AIM, USA as President for a two-year term. She currently is a Board Member of Women in Packaging, the Georgia Womens Business Council, the UGA National Alumni Association and the Frederica Academy Board of Trustees. Bonney is also Secretary of the AIDC 100 Leadership Council. Bonney holds a B.B.A. from the University of Georgia with a major in Finance.

Don Skinner

Ian Smith

Ian Smith

Glenn Spitz

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

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.

Jerry Swartz

Chris Swindin

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

Benny Tafoya

Hiromitsu Takai

Hiromitsu Takai
DENSO WAVE, INC.
2-15-13, Syoutou, Shibuya-ku Tokyo, 150-0046 Japan
81-3-6367-9690
hiromitsu.takai@denso-wave.co.jp

Dominic Tan

Gregory Tanner

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.

Kathy (Parsons) Ulinski

Vic Verma

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

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.

Dr. Ynijiun Wang

Dr. Ynijiun Wang
HAND HELD PRODUCTS
10127 Linda Ann Place Cupertino, CA 95014
408-250-2345
ynjiun.wang@handheld.com

Rick Warther

Rick Warther
VANGUARD ID
1210 American Blvd. West Chester, PA 19380
(610) 719-0700
rick@vanguardid.com
Bar code industry pioneer Rick Warther has been in the Auto ID industry since 1979. Rick Warther founded Vanguard ID Systems in 1987 to manufacture bar coded retail transaction cards. By 1996, the company had quadrupled in size. Today, the company is a pioneer and leader in the development of cards, key tags and labels for customer loyalty, membership, gift and debit programs and access control. Vanguards extensive product line incorporates bar code, magnetic stripe and RFID technologies. A successful entrepreneur and innovator, Warther holds 28 United States Patents for bar coded, magnetic striped and radio frequency (RFID) transaction devices (Source: http://patent.ipexl.com/inventor/Richard_O_Warther_3.html). He was the first to laser print on plastic, creating the first bar coded membership/ ID card. He invented the first bar coded key tag. To date, Vanguard ID Systems has delivered more than 1 billion of these tags. He also pioneered Flip Chip RFID key tags for contactless transactions. Warther is listed in Whos Who in Business and Industry. He is also a Program Facilitator for Strategic Coach, which provides a forum where successful entrepreneurs can strategize. In his leisure time, Warther enjoys aviation and other pursuits. He holds a private pilots license (instrument rated) and volunteers as an Angel Flight pilot, providing medical air transportation for patients in need. He also serves on the board of the American Helicopter Museum. Warther has also served as a Championship Auto Racing Technical Official (CART). He holds a bachelor of science degree in Communications from Kent State University. Rick received the 2011 Kent State Centennial Award, the highest honor given by the school in recognition of professional achievement and renowned contributions to one’s profession or life’s work relating to the field of communication.

Mike Weaver

Mike Weaver
INTRINSIC MARKSINTERNATIONAL
8916 Hunter’s Pointe Drive Huntersville, NC 28078
704-947-5200
704-621-9777 (m)
fmweaver@intrinsicmarks.com
fmweaver@aol.com
INTRINSIC MARKS INTERNATIONAL, LLC 4/01-present, Founder, CEO & President IMI is a technology incubator. New AIDC related products include: –IMI smartShelf” and related IMI smartSolutions”; patent pending –IMI ALF” and IMI ALF-NET” to uniquely monitor, track and find mobile assets –UIDexpress.com automates the order-through-delivery of DoD Universal Identification (UID) name plates –Covert marking automatic identification tracking and security solutions. DATASOURCE HOLDINGS Managing Director –Developed advanced semi-trailer over-the-road tracking system; US patent 5,917,433 –Developed a real-time RFID tag display system for E-Code(RFCODE); Best of Show ScanTech-USA 1999, Best of Show Scan-Tech Japan 1999, Best of Show at COMDEX 2000 –Developed cargo pallet tracking RFID tag meeting FAA regulations on transponder emissions while in flight HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC. Charlotte 1/83-4/95, Founder, Chairman, CEO, President –Delivered shirt-pocket SuperTracker® computers to Federal Express Corp. used 1985 to 2000 to track packages –MicroWand® (1985 first integrated contact reader and programmable computer data entry device no wires) sold globally to commercial, industrial, medical and defense users; custom versions to Roadway Package System; A C NEILSEN, custom data entry device for AVON POETs –LaserWand® (1988 first integrated laser programmable computer data capture device – no wires) sold to warehouse, medical, commercial users –Developed a variety of other custom hand held data collection devices. F. M. WEAVER ASSOCIATES, INC Charlotte 7/78-12/82, President –Delivered over 5,000 EPROM emulators for Hewlett-Packard HP-41C programmable calculator –Delivered 20,000 custom Texas Instruments 58C-59 programmable calculator EPROM based alternatives to custom ROMs –Delivered custom HP-41C ROM for technical trading of stocks –Delivered a variety of microcontroller industrial automation solutions EDUCATION: WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY Dayton, OH MBA Research & Development Management – June 1970 MIAMI UNIVERSITY, Dayton Campus, Dayton, OH BA Biology – June 1967
