Dave Traver is the newest member of the EMC Society Board of Directors. In accordance with EMC Society bylaws, as the un- elected candidate with the most votes from the last election, he was appointed to fill the Board position vacated through the untimely passing of Herb Zajac.
David L. Traver (M’89) is Director of Quality Engineering at Sony Electronics Incorporated, San Diego, CA. He received his B.S degree in Business Management/Production from San Diego State University, his AS degree in Quality Technology from San Diego CC, and USN Avionics Electronics technical training.
Since 1985, Dave has been responsible for developing and maintaining the EMC measurement and compliance programs for several Consumer and ITE Product Design groups at Sony Electronics in San Diego.
His experience includes developing measurement techniques for both satellite and terrestrial Digital TV products, Computer Displays, and unique integrated ITE systems. Dave is in a unique position to see the integration of many new technologies, such as wireless telecom, HDTV, MPEG, DSS consumer products and specialized products and their EMC performance and compliance.
Dave has been a member of the IEEE EMCS Standards Committee since 1989 and is currently serving his 7th year as Secretary. He has directly supported P187 and P1140 standards and is actively seeking to develop a new working group to revise TV related standards 213 and 187 to prepare them for the digital environment.