SMPTE Announces Appointments of New Secretary/Treasurer and 2018 Directors
Into SMPTEs Second Century, Experienced Group of Officers, Governors, and Directors Continues to Guide Society
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Jan. 18, 2018 - SMPTE , the organization whose standards work has supported a century of advances in entertainment technology and whose membership spans the globe, today announced that the SMPTE Board of Governors has appointed a new secretary/treasurer and has named the Societys 2018 directors.
John E. Ferder has been appointed to serve as SMPTE secretary/treasurer, a position left open when Peter Wharton was elected to serve as SMPTE membership vice president. Ferder has previously served on the Societys board as a governor of the New York region.
In his new role as Membership Vice President, Wharton has appointed two new SMPTE membership directors for 2018. John Maizelswill serve as membership director for international sections, and Herbert Jay Dunmore will serve as the membership director for student chapters & educational institutions. Karl Joseph Kuhn will continue to serve as the membership director for North American sections, a position he has held since 2013.
In his first term as SMPTE Standards Vice President, Bruce Devlin has appointed John Snow, Dave Schnuelle, and John Hurst to serve as standards directors.
SMPTE Education Vice President Richard Welsh has appointed two new education directors for 2018. Yvonne Thomas will serve as education director for conference programs, and Jaclyn Pytlarz will serve as education director for mentoring and internships. Sara J. Kudrle, who is currently on the Societys board as a governor for the New York region, will continue in her role as education director for the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal. Sean Lancastle will continue in his role as education director for university liaisons.
The SMPTE directors for 2018 reflect the Societys commitment to providing the motion-imaging industry - students and professionals working worldwide - with timely, thoughtful, and engaging educational opportunities, programming, and standards and recommendations, said SMPTE President Matthew Goldman, senior vice president of technology, TV and media, at Ericsson. The remarkable experience and dedication of our incoming directors will fuel the Societys ongoing success in expanding its reach and in shaping the industrys future.
On Thursday, January 25, SMPTE is offering a complimentary webcast titled A Conversation with SMPTE Leadership: The Society Looks Forward to 2018 and Beyond. The webcast will feature Goldman, Wharton, and Devlin, along with SMPTE Executive Vice President Pat Griffis and SMPTE Executive Director Barbara Lange. The panel of SMPTE leaders will present the Societys Vision 20/20, and there will be a question-and-answer period. This special-edition webcast is open to all. Registration is available at smpte.org/vision-2020-webcast.
SMPTE 2018 Newly Appointed Officers and Directors: Profiles
John E. Ferder, SMPTE Secretary/Treasurer
Ferder was most recently director of studio and postproduction engineering for the CBS Television Network in New York, where he worked for more than 20 years. Together with his engineering group, he was responsible for the design, construction, and support of all production and postproduction facilities in the CBS Broadcast Center, including the renovations for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, HD upgrades for NFL Today, The Late Show with David Letterman, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and the 2008 construction of the new control room for the CBS Evening News as well as the new studio for CBS This Morning. Ferder was elevated to SMPTE Fellow in 2012 and is a member of IEEE.
John Maizels, SMPTE Membership Director for International Sections
Maizels combines life as a media versatilist and technologist in television and radio with that of an on-camera presenter, technical writer, sound editor, author, and studio/OB operational crew. He also teaches multicamera studio broadcasting at the college level. A pioneer of distance education and business television, Maizels also has developed virtual routing control systems for broadcast studio use and has been highly active in the development of education and training for technologists. He is a SMPTE Fellow and has previously served on the Societys board as governor for the SMPTE Asia-Pacific region.
Herbert Jay Dunmore, SMPTE Membership Director for Student Chapters & Educational Institutions
Dunmore is an Adobe Education Leader who has served as manager of the Washington, D.C., SMPTE Section and as the student chapter advisor of the Loyola University Maryland Chapter since its founding in 2012. He has continually promoted learning between the student chapter and the section by hosting an annual meeting and seminars and by exposing future professionals to the creative, business, and technical realms of television production. Dunmore is the recipient of a 2017 Citation for Outstanding Service to the Society.
Karl Joseph Kuhn, SMPTE Membership Director for North American Sections
Kuhn is the senior video systems applications engineer at Tektronix, where he supports digital audio and video, compression, internet protocol (IP), file-based, and radio frequency test and measurement. He holds three U.S. patents and one Japanese patent that cover in-service testing of digital broadcast video. Kuhn, who is a SMPTE Fellow, served on the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) Technical and Engineering Emmy Committee from 2007 to 2010. Earlier roles with SMPTE include chair of the SMPTE Washington, D.C., Section and governor for the SMPTE Eastern region.
John Snow, SMPTE Standards Director
Snow, who is senior FPGA engineer at Cobalt Digital, has been an active member of the SMPTE standards community for many years, chairing various groups including the 32N
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SMPTE Announces Appointments of New Secretary/Treasurer and 2018 Directors 
