
Michael Hopkins has over 30 years experience with EMC and ESD as an independent consultant, an employee of Thermo Fisher Scientific working with the KeyTek product lines, EM Test USA. and Amber Precision Instruments. He has worked closely with manufacturers and laboratories world-wide providing training, applications help, and assistance with the development of interpretation of test standards. He is the author of several papers and articles on ESD and other system level EMC phenomena; and has participated in numerous national and international seminars as author, speaker, and panelist. Michael has served with several committees developing standards for industry including IEC as a former working group convenor, the ESD Association, IEEE, SAE and is a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for EMC for the development and maintenance of basic EMC standards.