Rachel Bugaris is a business development manager at Panduit Corp., a provider of network infrastructure and industrial electrical wiring solutions. Her work focuses on electrical safety solutions for the workplace. She has a background in R&D, designing products ranging from absence of voltage testers to arc resistant equipment, and has multiple patents and has written several technical papers on electrical safety topics. She participates and has held leadership positions in several IEEE committees, including the Electrical Safety Committee, Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee, Pulp & Paper Industry Committee, and standards working groups (IEEE C37.20.7, IEEE 1683, IEEE 1584, UL 1436).