John Pfleiderer, MA, CTS-D, CTS-I, has had a long career as a communication and audiovisual professional. For over 40 years, John has worked in the communications field. He has done photography, cinematic projection, live sound mixing, sound and video system installation, and broadcast engineering for both transmission and production studio facilities.

Later, John was employed to work in the audiovisual field for several universities. Shifting from broadcast to AV he went on to focus on audiovisual design and installation. John went on to design many AV systems for educational and collaborative spaces. He retired from Cornell University in 2018.

Still pursuing an avid interest in AV, John accepted a position with AVIXA in 2019 and began passing down the knowledge he gained throughout his career by working in Standards Development.