Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

Ken Krechmer (krechmer@csrstds.com) is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Colorado, where he has taught a three credit unit course on the theory of standards.

In 2006 he received a joint second prize in the IEC Centenary Challenge paper competition.

From 1990 to 2002 he was the founding technical editor of Communications Standards Review of Palo Alto, CA, technical journals reporting on standards work-in-progress in the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

He has also been secretary of TIA TR-29 (facsimile standards) 1990-1995 and a US delegate to ITU-T Study Group 8 (fax), 14 (previous modem standards), 15 (xDSL) and 16 (current modem and video conferencing) meetings.

He consulted on standardization strategies 1980 - 2000 for clients including: France Telecom, British Telecom, NEC, Dialogic, Intel, Ascend Communications, Pacific Telesis.

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of Society of Engineering Standards.