Herbert Bertine is a former chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 and previously Study Group 7, having served from 1993 to 2008. He has been actively involved in the standards work of the ITU since 1975 and has held senior leadership positions for 28 years. He has devoted extensive efforts in facilitating cooperation with SDOs.
Herb also has been active in other arenas dealing with ICT standards including ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 and ANSI. He was instrumental in developing the collaborative procedures between ITU-T and JTC 1 (reflected in Rec. A.23) and in establishing the cooperative procedures with the IETF.
Herb retired in November 2007. He was Director, Standards at Lucent Technologies where he led Lucent's standards efforts worldwide. He joined Bell Laboratories in June 1965 and spent his career in communication technologies. This included systems engineering work on modems, digital data systems, X.25 packet networks, open systems, and advanced communication systems. Since 1982, he had various responsibilities for corporate-wide standards management.
In October 2006, Herb was awarded the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal for outstanding technical and managerial leadership in establishing international information technology and telecommunications standards and the methods by which they are produced.
Herb has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
