Bio

Ken Krechmer (krechmer@csrstds.com) started his technical career in 1961 as a technician (after leaving MIT) and quickly became a practicing engineer working for several electronics companies in the 1960s and 1970s. After founding one electronics company and working in sales and marketing for several others, he began consulting in 1980. As a consultant he participated in the development of the International Telecommunications Union Recommendations for Group 3 facsimile (T.30), data modems (V.8, V.8bis, V.32, V.32bis, V.34, V.90), and Digital Subscriber Line transceivers (G.994.1) as well as the related US standards.

He was a founder and the technical editor of Communications Standards Review and Communications Standards Summary 1990 -2002. In 1995 and 2000 he won first prize at the World Standards Day paper competition. In 2006 he received a joint second prize in the IEC Centenary Challenge paper competition. He was Program Chair of the Standards and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT) conference in 2001 (Boulder, CO), 2003 (Delft, Netherlands) and 2007 (Calgary, Canada) and is a joint Program Chair of SIIT 2009 (Tokyo, Japan). He is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He learns from his six delightful grandchildren and applies his technical interests to research, writing and teaching about standards.

A list of publications is available at http://www.csrstds.com/klist.html

Courses

TLEN 5834 Standards: Business, Law, and Policy