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Dirk Rodgers is a Regulatory Strategist where he writes regularly in an exploration of the intersection between the pharmaceutical supply chain, track and trace technology, standards and regulatory compliance. He has posted over 400 essays on these specific topics and is the author of the book “The Drug Supply Chain Security Explained” (Amazon). A logical thinker, Dirk is skilled at making complex technical topics understandable to non-technical readers and listeners. An Electrical and Computer Engineer by education, Dirk has worked as a consultant, software architect and automation engineer during a career spanning 30 years. In 2002 he became employed by Cardinal Health, one of the big 3 U.S. drug distributors, where he studied many approaches to applying serialization and track & trace technology to solve supply chain integrity problems and also improve supply chain efficiencies. In 2003 he represented Cardinal Health on Accenture’s seminal Jumpstart project, an early pharmaceutical supply chain RFID pilot. Dirk has served on HDA, NCPDP, EPCglobal, GS1 and GS1 US technical and standards work groups. He served as co-chair of the GS1 EPCglobal Drug Pedigree Messaging (DPMS) work group and the GS1 Network Centric ePedigree (NCeP) work group, among others.