Moderator:

Ric Van Der Linden is the Principal Consultant for ProgressivEdge www.ProgressivEdge.com , a consulting business based in the San Diego area focused on the applications of Continuous Improvement techniques to any business type. His career has focused on Continuous Improvement. For the past 17 years he has led and supported business growth including the start up of two large manufacturing operations which included facilities, equipment and staffing. He has managed production operations and his most recent years have consisted of a full time dedication to Continuous Improvement through the application of Lean and Six Sigma. 

As a Champion of Lean and Six Sigma, he has developed Lean Strategies and Six Sigma programs that have become "best practice". He has driven results though Lean and Six Sigma in all aspects of business. Along with project leadership, he has also trained, mentored, and certified over 300 Lean/Six Sigma individuals that have resulted in a 3 year accumulation of $20 million savings. He has a BS in Manufacturing Engineering, a Masters in Organizational Management, is a certified Lean Expert and Master Black Belt in Six Sigma. He is the President of the San Diego Chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and is a Lean and Six Sigma Instructor at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego.

Panel Speaker #1 Biography

Doug McCloskey is the President and a Principal Consultant of Grant Rothbard, Inc., a management consultancy located in San Marcos, California that specializes in the design, development and automation of innovative quality management systems for compliance and improvement.

Doug is a career quality professional with 20 years of experience in a wide range of industries. A long time member of ASQ and a certified Quality Manager, Quality Engineer and Quality Auditor, Doug started his quality career as a quality engineer and quality manager in the automotive industry in the mid-eighties, here in Southern California. Since that time Doug has ridden the third wave of the industrial revolution throughout his career working for automotive and aerospace suppliers, software and internet service providers, financial institutions and biotech companies.

Past positions and contracts include several quality management assignments, plant turnaround projects, new business development and qualification programs, extensive training assignments and executive operations and quality positions with responsibility for manufacturing operations in Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil.

Panel Speaker #2 Biography

Fernando Perez, Global Quality Systems ( http://www.gqs-inc.com/ ) Principle Consultant and Instructor. RABQSA Quality Management System Auditor Certified, ASQ Senior Member and ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt Certified. Accredited by the Entidad Mexicana de Acreditación as a Technical Expert and Quality Management Systems Auditor.  He has successfully completed the RABQSA Certified Aerospace Industry Competency Course. 

Fernando has worked in Quality Management since 1990 in manufacturing industries as a Quality Manager and as a Consultant.  He has been certificated by the American Society for Training and Development as E-learning Instructional Designer and Langevin as Instructional Designer.  

He earned a Communications and Electronics Engineering degree at the ESIME and a Master of Business Administration degree at the ITESM in Mexico City. Fernando has improved Quality Management Systems in various Japanese and American organizations with advanced statistical techniques, problem solving methodologies, and customer oriented product design tools, such as QFD, DOE, 8D, and FMEA.

Panel Speaker #3 Biography

Kim Niles has a master's degree in Quality Science from CSU Dominguez Hills and is currently developing a class in "Change Management and Quality Improvement" for SDSU's Center for Bio/Pharmaceutical and Biodevice Development as part of their Masters degree and certificates program (see   http://interwork.sdsu.edu/cbbd/aboutus.htm), funded through a state grant.

Kim also serves on the UCSD advisory board, teaches Lean Six Sigma through UCSD Extension, is in the Roadmaps Institute think tank, has 32+ publications with over 3M circulations, has given 135 talks, and has received four certifications including a UCSD Master Black Belt certification, ASQ CQE, and ASQ CSSBB.  Kim currently works in Poway for Delta Design, Inc.  Find more information about Kim at www.KimNiles.com

Panel Speaker #4 Biography

Vinod Kumar, founder President of ISOguru Incorporated, is a BSME (Mechanical Engineer) and an MBA with more than 25 years of experience in the field of quality and environmental management systems. He was President/General Manager of Aerospex Corporation till 1992 after which he has been in the consulting/auditing/gap analysis and training business as a co-founder of Quality 2000 Incorporated, and has helped several companies to achieve ISO 9001, QS/AS/D1 9000 and ISO 14001 certifications.  Vinod Kumar has also been on the panel of experts in international forums on quality system standards.  Many of his clients have had not even a single minor nonconformance in their certification audits.  This is the level of expertise he brings to you in this field.

Vinod Kumar is not only a RAB (Registrar Accreditation Board) Certified Quality System Lead Auditor (QS-LA), Environmental Management Systems Lead Auditor (EMS-LA) and RAB/IATCA (International Auditor and Training Certification Association) Senior Auditor, he has also attained the distinction of being recognized as a “Responsible Person and Verifying Auditor” by the IATCA Executive Panel. This designation enables him to witness the audits and attest to the competence of individuals seeking to obtain an IATCA grade certification. 

Contact Vinod at isoguruvinod@yahoo.com 

Panel Speaker #5 Biography

Natalie J. Kennel,  Principal in RA/QA Medical Device Consulting Business Natalie J. Kennel RAC, ASQ CQE & CQMgr. brings a practical perspective to medical device quality and regulatory affairs, having spent more than 23 years in manufacturing industries with more than 17 of those devoted to medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics. Prior to forming her consulting business she worked in a variety of management roles at small and large medical device companies, championing and implementing changes to the manner in which compliance was achieved. She has written and implemented completely new quality management systems, overhauled parts of existing systems, prepared 510(k)'s and other regulatory submissions, and worked extensively with management, consultants, and regulatory agencies to the benefit of her clients. Natalie has conducted and hosted audits, and is expert in complaint handling, adverse event reporting, and management of recalls. In addition to her QA/RA roles she has strong manufacturing and product development experience obtained while an engineer at Eastman Kodak and Johnson & Johnson Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics. Contact information: Phone (858) 705-0350 FAX (858) 764-9739 nkennel@njkconsulting.com ;  http://www.njkconsulting.com 

Panel Speaker #5 Biography

Natalie J. Kennel Principal in RA/QA Medical Device Consulting Business RAC, ASQ CQE & CQMgr. brings a practical perspective to medical device quality and regulatory affairs, having spent more than 23 years in manufacturing industries with more than 17 of those devoted to medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics. 

Prior to forming her consulting business she worked in a variety of management roles at small and large medical device companies, championing and implementing changes to the manner in which compliance was achieved. 

She has written and implemented completely new quality management systems, overhauled parts of existing systems, prepared 510(k)'s and other regulatory submissions, and worked extensively with management, consultants, and regulatory agencies to the benefit of her clients. 

Natalie has conducted and hosted audits, and is expert in complaint handling, adverse event reporting, and management of recalls. In addition to her QA/RA roles she has strong manufacturing and product development experience obtained while an engineer at Eastman Kodak and Johnson & Johnson Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics. 

Contact information: Phone (858) 705-0350 FAX (858) 764-9739 nkennel@njkconsulting.com 

Panel Speaker #6 Biography

Ray Klotz, P.E. (rklotz@roadrunner.com), author of 13 books with twenty plus years of progressive hands-on experience in Quality management and engineering, national & international.  A highly skilled QMS 2000 Lead Auditor, with excellent skills and experience in people management and problem solving.  Areas of expert experience and hands-on ability: - ISO-9000:2000, ISO-14000, TL-9000 , AS-9000, QS-9000 & D1-9000 - Expert witness (Testified)-State & Federal Courts - Total Quality Management (TQM) - Cost of Quality (COQ) - Statistical Process Control (SPC) - Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) - 1772, 883, 38534 (Micro-Elec) - High Volume Production (Electronics) - Test Env.,(Electronic Testing In-Process Final) - PCB Manufacturing, IPC, Std. - Gaskets, aerospace & petroleum industries - Personal & Product Safety - Configuration Mgmt/ Document Control - MIL-STD 2167 & 2168 (Software) - Plastics, Injection molding, & molds/fixtures.   

Professional experience 2000-present World Class Quality Consulting-Carlsbad, CA. President/Consultant/QMS Lead Auditor/Expert Witness ISO 9000:2000, ISO 14000, TL 9000 Teaching QAI classes (Lead Auditor, Internal auditor,2000 Transition Auditing Eagle, Alliance, QAI--(ISO 9001:94 & 2000) Auditing and teaching.

Our section proudly sponsors a variety of educational and professional training

opportunities.   See our main education page for more details.  

  

Classes to be Held This Month

 

See classes that are under way this month on our Refresher page and Modular page.  Keep signing up for any courses you'd like to take and we will keep adding more so that perhaps the class you want will be held next month.  If you have any special requests, please make them also as we will try to accommodate you.     

 

Current Exam Dates Schedule

 

Certification exams are held in member company meeting rooms around San Diego and administered by proctors.  They are held on Saturday mornings twice per year as shown in the table below.  Note that these dates don't include special quality conference tests.  Main ASQ certifications page. 

 

Certification Types and Links to "Body of Knowledge", & Additional Information	Application Deadline	Exam Dates
CQT - Quality Technician CRE - Reliability Engineer CMI - Mechanical Inspector CQM - Quality Manager CSSBB - Six Sigma Black Belt CHA - HACCP Auditor CBA - Biomedical Auditor	Every January and August Next: August 17, 2007 Then again on: January 11, 2008 August 2008 January 2009 August 2009	Every March & Oct. Next is Oct. 20, 2007 Then again on:  March 1, 2008 October 2008 March 2009 October 2009
CQE  - Quality Engineer CQA - Quality Auditor CSQE  - Software Quality Eng. CQIA - Q Improvement Associate CCT - Calibration Technician CSSGB - Six Sigma Green Belt	Every April and October Next is October 5, 2007  Then again on: April 2008 October 2009 April 2009	Every June & Dec. Next is Dec. 1, 2007 Then again on: June 2008 Dec. 2008 June 2009

 

Upcoming Workshops and Modular Courses

For future month workshops see upcoming workshops.

 

TOPIC	Taught By	Date;Tm;Loc	Cost	Contact
No workshops currently scheduled
Our workshop coordinator is looking for speakers, interesting topics, and a meeting location.  Contact Jenny Gossett (CQA-CBA), Director of Quality; e-mail: asq703workshop@yahoo.com

 

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Newsletter Sponsors

 

Our newsletter sponsors this month are:

 

Lean Six-Sigma:  Green-Belt, Black-Belt and Master Black-Belt Workshops    Click Here for More Information.

See Schedule of Numerous Events!   Lean Six Sigma Class Just Started - Act Now!   University of California, San Diego Extension Six-Sigma Black-Belt     A Black-Belt Professional Certificate Program

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Sarbanes Oxley ISO 9000 BS 7799 (ISO 17799) HIPAA, etc. Click Here For Information or see http://grantrothbard.com/

Six-Sigma & Lean Providing you the roadmap for successful Implementation   Hands-on workshops Lean Six Sigma Black Belt - NEW Lean Kaizen Simulation One-Day   Six Sigma Black Belt At your company.  Call now. Location: San Diego, CA           Call 858 566 6432   or  info@qprs.com QPR - Quality and Productivity Resources - http://www.qprs.com/

 

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