Consultants and Associates

Paul Chartier
Principal, Praxis Consultants

Paul has been involved in AIDC technology for over 30 years, and established Praxis Consultants in 1980. Various international industry bodies have retained him to develop over 20 application standards using OCR, bar code and RFID technology. He has a deep understanding of the breadth and variety of user applications.  With particular relevance to RFID standards, he is Project Editor for ISO standards (ISO/IEC 15961 and ISO/IEC 15962) dealing with a data protocol allowing users to communicate with, and encode data on, RFID tags.  The data protocol supports a variety of sectors and multiple tag architectures and frequencies.  He is also Project Editor of ISO/IEC 24753, for processing of information from sensors attached to RFID tags.  In 2003, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Technology Innovation Centre, part of the University of Central England. 

Peter Hawkes
Consultant

Peter has a BSc in Special Chemistry and Physics from Queen Mary College, London University. After graduation he worked for GEC where he led a team pioneering the application of integrated circuits in telecommunications. After joining the NRDC, BTG’s predecessor body, he initiated several projects on smart cards, biometric identification and secure network technology. The early part of this work was done in collaboration with Donald Davies of the National Physical Laboratory, the inventor of Packet Data Switching. In 1992 this experience led to recognition of the future potential of the contactless smart card and its close relative, the RFID tag. Since then Peter has participated in the development of the international standards needed for these devices and provided invaluable technical advice on the production of RFID chip prototypes. He has published widely on these and related topics; a number of these papers are available on this website.
peter.hawkes@rfipsolutions.com

Catherine Murphy
Consultant

Catherine has project managed and worked on many ERP system implementations, including SAP & JDE (OW), in manufacturing and supply chain environments. Her work in manufacturing companies includes the implementation of the following systems: production planning, production support, time and attendance, warehousing and transportation, finance, controlling and purchasing

Catherine’s recent portfolio includes leading a successful traceability project within a large multinational paper company and working on RFID implementations in the mines of South Africa. She holds a BSc in Geography from Leeds University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Operational research and Computer techniques. She is also CIMA qualified with a strong financial background.
catherine.murphy@rfipsolutions.com

Bertus Pretorius
Consultant

Bertus specialises in the use of Automated Identification and Encryption for preventing crime and fraud. He has considerable experience in systems architecture, RFID, networking, data manipulation and data delivery for massively distributed processes. He has worked in banking, safety and security, sport and supply chain industry sectors, and has successfully taken many products from concept to market.

Bertus is the chairman for SC71K (ISO/IEC JTC1/31 – ISO AutoID) where he represents South Africa in important decisions on RFID. He also chairs the STANSA SC71H WG4 (ISO/IEC TC204), which is the driver behind the South African Electronic Vehicle Intelligence [EVI] project, aiming to reduce crime and create new business opportunities for South Africa. He is an acclaimed speaker and is acknowledged for his ability to train in encryption and RFID. 
bertus@rfip.eu