Carl K. Dekker serves as the President of Met-L-Flo Inc., a growing service center for AM in Sugar Grove, IL. His work has been published in industry journals including Prototyping Technology, Rapid Prototyping Report, Time Compression Technologies, and the Wohlers Report (2003-8,13-18) to name a few. A past chair of SME’s AM Community, Dekker is the currently president of AMUG, Fellow and past Chair ASTM’s F42 and the current chair of SME’s Direct Digital Manufacturing Tech Group. He is a proud recipient of the SLA Dinosaur Award and a Master Certificate in Rapid Prototyping.