BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Bill McCrum
Bill McCrum has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in
Electronics and Communications from the Queen’s University of Belfast. He
worked in radiocommunications design for General Electric in the United States
from 1968-69, then Bell Northern Research Labs., Canada from 1969 – 77
specializing in digital data communications equipment and system design. He
joined the Canadian Department of Communications in 1977, and retired as
Senior Director, Telecommunications Engineering and Certification in the
Canadian Department of Industry in 2010. He was chief negotiator for Canada in a
number of international treaties and Mutual Recognition Agreements in the area
of Conformity Assessment of telecommunications equipment, covering the
Americas, European Union and Asia Pacific Regions. He is well known in the
international ICT standards world and has published many papers in the data
communications field and co-authored 2 books on Open Systems Interconnection.
Presently he is consulting to the ITU.