October 28, 2008: Ho Chi Minh City
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SPEAKERS
US Speakers
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Michael Violette, Director,
American Council of Independent Laboratories
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Chandler
von Schrader, National Manager of Home Performance, Environmental
Protection Agency
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Janardhanan Chandrasekar,
General Manager for ASEAN, Underwriters Laboratories
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Desmond Fraser, President and
Founder, Rheintech Laboratories
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Steven Koster, EMC Operations
Manager,
Washington Laboratories
Michael Violette, Director, American Council of Independent
Laboratories
Mr. Violette is on the Board of
Directors of The American Council of Independent Laboratories. Mr.
Violette is a licensed professional engineer with over 25 years of
experience in the laboratory and training business. He works with
industry and government standards organizations developing
measurement and evaluation standards for new products and
technologies. He has international business development experience,
opening operations in Asian and Europe and travels internationally
seeking cooperation, understanding and development of
standards-based trade. Mr. Violette writes extensively about
technology and trade issues and has extensive speaking experience,
addressing government and industry groups on product qualification
systems in the US and abroad.
Chandler von
Schrader, National Manager of Home Performance, Environmental
Protection Agency
Mr. von Schrader has been in the
energy efficiency industry since 1981, primarily in the Washington
DC metro area. His first energy efficiency work was selling and
installing domestic hot water solar systems. From solar Chandler
moved into providing utility residential energy audits and performed
thousands. This quickly led to running weatherization crews for
local utilities and delivering demand side management (DSM)
activities that included: commercial lighting, large scale
multi-family lighting, low income energy efficiency services, whole
house diagnostics and full scale remediation. Along the way Chandler
has worked for utilities, an electric cooperative, a weatherization
fund, an unregulated utility service company and has been part owner
of a kitchen and bath remodeling company and an energy service
company (ESCO). For the past five years Chandler has worked for EPA
promoting energy efficiency best practices in the HVAC, Home
Performance and Remodeling industries and is the national manager of
HPwES activities.
JC Sekar, General Manager and Managing
Director for the ASEAN Operations
JC Sekar is the General Manager and Managing Director for the ASEAN
Operations of Underwriters Laboratories (UL). In this role, JC has
overall responsibility for the strategy, growth and achievement of
P&L in this market. This is in addition to his role as the General
Manager (Consulting) for UL’s customers in Asia Pacific, Middle East
& Africa. Founded in 1894, Underwriters Laboratories (UL) is an
independent product safety testing and certification organization
and has been evaluating thousands of types of products according to
national and international safety standards and auditing management
systems to international requirements.
JC Sekar has a
Masters Degree in Aerospace from the prestigious Indian Institute of
Technology in India and has extensive International Business
experience across Geographies and a wide array of industries. His
initial work experience has been in the Military Aerospace Industry
and Heavy Engineering Industry for around 8 years. During this
period, he worked extensively in the areas of Project Management,
Facility Planning, Technology Development, Technology Transfer,
Computerization, Supply Chain Management & deployment of Quality
Systems. Subsequently, he worked in a reputed consulting company and
was involved in competency development and consulting assignments
with a large number of organizations primarily in the Engineering
and Services sector.
In his over 10 years of experience with
UL, JC was responsible for building and managing teams and to
oversee the growth and delivery of a wide array of services for UL
customers in the Asia Pacific. This service spans across various
industries with primary focus on Automotive, Aerospace, Electrical,
Electronics, IT, Chemicals and Plastics. This role involved piloting
new services and leading geographic expansion of these services into
emerging markets such as India, China and more recently Vietnam.
Desmond Fraser, President and Founder, Rheintech
Laboratories
Mr. Fraser is Director and Founder of
AmericanTCB and is President and Founder of Rheintech Laboratories.
Mr. Fraser was educated in Germany and has spent the past 28 years
in the field of electronics design and test. As President of
Rheintech Laboratories, Mr. Fraser oversees the operation testing
and evaluation methods for products from land mobile and fixed
point-to-point communcations systems, consumer products,
sophisticated high frequency (80 GHz) radio communications and
sensing systems. Mr. Fraser has developed specialized test
techniques for state of the art products requiring government
Certification and works with US Federal Regulators to create
regimens for new technologies. He has overseen the setup and
operation of AmericanTCB in Taiwan and China and travels to Asia
several times per year to support and develop the expansion of ATCB
in Asia.
Steve Koster, EMC Operations Manager,
Washington Laboratories
Mr. Koster is EMC Operations
Laboratory Manager for Washington Laboratories. Mr. Koster is has
over 25 years of experience in the electronics field, with
experience in avionics support for communications and control
electronics, sophisticated radio frequency, digital systems,
commercial and industrial systems. He has supervised the performance
of test and evaluation of thousands of devices requiring conformance
to international specifications. He provides expert consultation and
advice for manufacturers seeking to place products on the
international market, including the United States, European Union,
China, Japan, Australia and Canada. He provides training on
conformance to international requirements and is an expert in EMC,
Radio Frequency, Energy and Aerospace specifications. Mr. Koster has
travelled to Europe and Asia, most recently to Hefei China at the
International Appliance Fair and Exposition.
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