Craig K. Harmon

Phone: +1 319/364-0212
E-Mail: craig.harmon@qed.org

Craig K. Harmon is the President and CEO of Q.E.D. Systems.  With over 25 years of proven experience in the information systems industry he is, without question, the leading expert on RFID standardization in the world.  He is the author of four books on data collection technology, including Reading Between The Lines and Lines of Communications, and a soon to be released text on RFID, bar codes, two-dimensional symbols, and other automatic identification and data capture technologies.  He provides the content for the web sites “autoid.org” and “qed.org”.

He chairs the AIM Global RFID Experts Group (REG) dealing with the real-world challenges of RFID.   He chairs the ISO committee addressing RFID applications in the supply chain (ISO TC 122/104 JWG – Supply chain applications of RFID).  He chairs the U.S. committee developing U.S. input into the international technical standards community (the U.S. TAG to SC 31/WG 4), serves as the Senior Project Editor for the SC 31 Air Interface Standards (ISO/IEC 18000), and previously chaired the U.S. committee on RFID technical standards (ASC INCITS T6).  He serves as vice-chair to Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) MH 10 (Material Handling) and U.S. TAG to ISO TC 122 (Packaging).  He serves as a committee officer in numerous ANSI, ISO and JTC 1 groups and the liaison officer to IATA, ITU, and ETSI.  He is the liaison delegate from JTC 1/SC 31 to IEC.  He participates in the specification development of EPCglobal.  He participates in the ITU-T efforts in the standardization of Network RFID.  He is responsible for the development and maintenance of the international vocabulary standards on bar codes, 2D symbols, RFID, and RTLS.

He served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to CompTIA in the development of professional certification for “CompTIA RFID Certified Professional (RFID+)” where he also holds the RFID+ certification.  He serves as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to RFID Revolutions™ RFID Essentials, a graphical, animated eLearning tool for RFID education.  Both his upcoming text and RFID Essentials are targeted for translation to Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.

He holds a Business Degree in Economics and International Trade from the University of Iowa and is the recipient of the 2004 Richard Dilling Award.

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