Dragan Popović

Dragan Popović, BSc of electronics and telecommunications and MSc of telecommunications, half of his more than 40 years carrier spent in research, development and testing in professional telecommunications and electronics, in Electronic industry Niš, Energoinvest Sarajevo and Military technical institute Belgrade. He worked on wired and radio communications with electromagnetic interference and compatibility as the most demanding issue, especially in complex military systems. At the time, military development was in front of other electronics and telecommunication areas for one or two decades. Other half of work he dedicated to standardization, through two main emanations: 1) International Standards development in electronics, telecommunications and general area, and their adoption as Yugoslav and Serbian national standards as head of Electronic and telecommunication department in Federal institution for standardization, and 2) standards implementation through mandatory conformity assessment (CA) of vehicles (within the system UN ECE W.P. 29), products (according to technical regulations and international IEC EE scheme) and voluntarily CA of management systems (certification, auditing) as an assistant director in Institute for standardization of Serbia (ISS), and lead auditor of ISS and international certification bodies DAS (UK) and CERTOP (Hungary) for ISO and IEC quality, environmental and information security management systems. In the period of 2004/2006, he was State Union of Serbia and Montenegro coordinator for EU CARDS project for standardization, metrology, accreditation and technical regulations. After retirement in 2011, he was recruited by CERTOP as lead auditor for management systems auditing and this is his current occupation.