Tom DeSilvia is the Director of Engineering for the Chamberlain Group. Tom joined Chamberlain in 2004 and has held several positions in engineering and legal. Tom currently spends much of his time overseeing regulatory engineering, global standards development, as well as investigating and supporting Chamberlain’s product liability cases. Tom has been an active member within DASMA for over 17 years. He is Chair of the Automated Vehicular Gate Systems Coalition, Vice-Chair of DASMA’s Gate Operator Committee, and serves on IDEA’s Board of Directors as President. Tom spearheaded the 2016 changes to UL325 that required entrapment protection to be monitored for gate operators and is an active voting member on four industry Standard Technical Panels. He is also a participant of the IEC TC61 and MT25 committees that drive international standards. Tom is a Certified Project Management Professional, Certified Information Privacy Manager, Certified Automatic Gate System Designer, and Professional Scrum Master. Tom received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa, a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University, and an MBA from Northern Illinois University.