Richard W. Kroon is the Director of Technical Operations for the Emmy ‎Award-winning Entertainment Identifier Registry Association (EIDR). Prior to ‎EIDR, he held senior positions with the Motion Picture Association of America ‎‎(MPAA), Technicolor, MovieLabs, and Southbay Motion Picture Technologies. ‎In addition to being an award-winning videographer, Mr. Kroon is the author ‎of numerous technical papers and several books, including A/V A to Z and 3D ‎A-to-Z. Mr. Kroon has a BS in Computer Science from the University of ‎Southern California (USC), an MBA from Auburn University, an MA in Media ‎and Communications Psychology from Touro University Worldwide (TUW), ‎and post-graduate certificates in Film and Television from UCLA Extension’s ‎Entertainment Studies.‎