{"id":24,"date":"2012-08-24T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ascl.us\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:01:48","slug":"our-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ascl.us\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"Our People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luke Hards<\/strong> \u2013 President<br \/>\nTechnical Manager &#8211; Photometry, Radiometry and Acoustics. Responsible for all technical aspects of the laboratories, including research and development to satisfy existing and future client requirements.<br \/>\nHe actively participates in various aspects of Standards, Quality, Accreditation and Metrology on an international level. Holding a National Diploma in Electrical Engineering, his metrology experience extends from laboratories in the private sector to the National Metrology Institute in South Africa. His expertise, over the past 36 years, includes -Establishing Quality Management Systems to ISO\/IEC 17025, from implementation to accreditation.<br \/>\nDesign and development of Measurement Systems Internal auditing \u2013 ISO\/IEC 17025.<br \/>\nOrganizing and implementing Proficiency Testing Schemes.<br \/>\nLead Assessor and Technical Assessor \/ Expert\u2013 Actively involved in assessments (ISO\/IEC 17025, ISO\/IEC 17043) within USA, Africa, Middle and Far East, Asia for various ILAC recognized Accreditation Bodies internationally.<br \/>\nPublished and presented papers at conferences and workshops.<br \/>\nDevelops and presents Measurement Science Training Courses.<br \/>\nActively participates at Specialist Technical Committees internationally.<br \/>\nReceived awards for contributions to Metrology and Accreditation in South Africa.<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:luke@ascl.us\">luke@ascl.us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Hards \u2013 President Technical Manager &#8211; Photometry, Radiometry and Acoustics. Responsible for all technical aspects of the laboratories, including research and development to satisfy existing and future client requirements. He actively participates in various aspects of Standards, Quality, Accreditation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ascl.us\/?page_id=24\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascl.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascl.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascl.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascl.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascl.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ascl.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/ascl.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascl.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}