A message from the ECHORD coordinator Alois Knoll

European Telecommunications Standards Institute www.etsi.org produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, aeronautical, broadcast and internet technologies and is officially recognized by the European Commission as a European Standards Organization. ETSI is an independent, not-for-profit association whose 766 member companies and organizations, drawn from 63 countries across 5 continents worldwide, participate directly in its work.

Patrick Guillemin is responsible within the ETSI Secretariat for development, co-ordination and management of new standardization initiatives including the Internet of Things, RFID and related fields. Patrick has 22 years of experience in IT and Telecommunications Project Management and 16 years in Standardization. Patrick is Coordinator of the EU CERP-IoT Cluster of research projects on RFID and IoT and participates directly in 3 EU Projects related to RFID and the Internet Of Things: CASAGRAS, GRIFS and RACE networkRFID. He was previously ETSI Technical Officer in charge of ETSI's RFID standardization committees, worked previously for 2 years as ETSI Plugtests Technical Manager (25 Plugtests events managed in 2 years) and was ETSI IT System Group Manager & Security Technical Manager. He organized the first ETSI RFID Plugtests in March 2005. Patrick supported the creation of ETSI TC GRID. In parallel, he was Software Engineering Teacher  at Nice University (France) for 14 years. Between 1985 and 1993, he worked as CIO for the French Stock Exchange in  Paris and for Digital Equipment Corporation in Sophia Antipolis as Project Manager and consultant. Patrick has an Engineer Dipl. from the French University ENSAM (Ecole Nationale des Arts et Métiers) and a Master Degree in Software Engineering