Gil Dichter is the World Wide Technical Support Manager, Water for IDEXX Laboratories. Education:  B.A. in Chemistry from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn New York  MBA in Management from Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Experience:  Over 15 years experience in the Pharmaceutical and Clinical Industry  Past 20 + years experience in water microbiology.  Chair of ASTM D19-24 Methods for Water Microbiology  Member of Standard Methods for Water and Wastewater Microbiology section 9000; Sub-Committee Chair for sections 9030 & 9060  Member of the Quality Systems Committee for TNI (The NELAC Institute) Publications:  Basic Laboratory Procedures for the Operator Analyst. WEF Special Edition, Fifth Edition, 2012, Chapter 5, Microbiological Examinations  Gil Dichter, February/March 2009. Advances in Microbiological Detection and Quantification. Solutions –Covering Analytical methods and Practices, Water Environment Federation, Volume 16, Number1  Gil Dichter, Use of an Innovative Enzymatic Method for the Determination of Total Coliforms, E.coli and Enterococci in Drinking, Recreational, Raw and Wastewater. Everything About Water. September, 09  Gil Dichter, Faster multiple parameter water testing method procedure saves time and money. Environmental Science and Technology. Vol 24 No.4 August 2011  Gil Dichter & Chris Dunn, Testing Packaged Ice for Total coliforms and E.coli is Easy and Affordable. Ice World Journal. Volume 13, Issue 4. Fourth Quarter 2011 Organizations:  American Society of Microbiology (ASM)  American Water Works Association (AWWA)  Water Environment Federation (WEF)  American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)  American Chemical Society (ACS)