Other Announcements & News

• New class schedule:  See   http://www.asqsandiego.org/attach_files/EdSched_7898_EL_ASQ Certification_103009.pdf (pdf; free viewer link at page bottom).  Students are responsible for ordering the required textbook from the Quality Council of Indiana at the following website: http://www.qualitycouncil.com/cm.asp#primers_bm  (Books are listed under Primers) Courses will be offered annually or semi-annually to align with the ASQ Certification Exam Dates (See table below). Contact our Education Chair for financial assistance or more details at david.clinard@gmail.com or call call (619) 244-2797. We offer these courses to you as a service to our members to help them get certified as an ASQ Professional.  Here's a recap of courses soon to be offered: 

• Certified Manager of Quality/OpEx (CMQ/OE)

  • Starting on November 24, 2009 to be held at CareFusion next door to the Country Inn & Suites

• Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)

  • Starting on November 24th

• Certified Quality Inspector (CQI):  

  • December 3, 2009 - February 18, 2010 ● Carlsbad

  • Thursdays, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. 

• Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)

  • February 2 - May 18, 2010 ● Carlsbad

  • Tuesdays, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. ● $400

• Certified Quality Auditor (CQA)

  • March 4 - May 13, 2010 ● Carlsbad

  • Thursdays, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. ● $300

• Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE)

  • March 4 - May 27, 2010 ● Rancho Bernardo

  • Thursdays, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. ● $350

• We recently had our 805th job ad!!  See http://www.asqsandiego.org/jobs.htm ... and keep sending them in.

• Our Linked-in Group:  http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=1234957&trk=anet_ug_hm  

• Sponsor Pages:  Don't forget to check out our sponsor pages.  Great courses and products being offered!!  See links at the bottom of this email. 

• Other Local Events:  Don't forget to check out other local events on our local event calendar.

• ASQ NEWS:  Visit the ASQ Learning Institute™ and set up your profile now!  The ASQ Learning Institute™ will help you to plan, manage, schedule, and track ALL of your professional development needs anywhere in the world while guaranteeing the same high-quality training and instructors you expect from ASQ. The ASQ Learning Institute™ allows you to create a user profile so you can build your learning plan, track your success, and boost your career-all starting today.  These tools are available to Full, Senior, Honorary, and Fellow members now:

  • ASQ Course (Learning) Catalog - Compiles a list of available training, including instructor-led, online, and document-based training. Allows users to browse and locate catalogs very quickly by subject areas or calendar date. 

  • ASQ Learning Institute™ Calendar - Provides a clear view of all the professional development opportunities over an 18-month period. The calendar allows users to view upcoming learning offerings that include all courses, seminars, and conferences in multiple modalities. 

  • Learning History - Displays the entire history of learning events for a learner-including components assigned and completed. The learning history can be thought of as the learner's "transcript." 

  • Competency Assessment - Provides a structured list of knowledge, skills, and abilities that serves as a foundation for users to map the level of competencies needed for various job functions.

  • Career Planner - The Career Planner helps you manage your career by mapping your future career path and assessing the difference between your current abilities and the abilities (called competencies) required for the job to which you ultimately aspire to.

  • Learning Plans - This personalized plan provides a detailed description of user activities to help learners achieve their education goals. The learning plan can be thought of as the "to do" list.

   

• ASQ Lean Six Sigma Conference March 2010 Phoenix:  Learn from proven firsthand applications, technical applications, and best practices in the concurrent sessions. The 2010 conference will also feature networking and learning opportunities from sponsors and exhibitors from a variety of markets addressing various levels of experience. For more information www.asq.org/conferences

This Month's Meeting

Our October meeting went well (see details here).  Our November meeting will be as follows: 

Nov. 10, 2009

Topic:   "Sterilization & Pkg. of Medical Devices"

Abigail Freeman abigailfreemanpdc@yahoo.com                30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "Earned Value Management"; led by Jean Desire

Abstract 

Special consideration must be given to final packaging and sterilization of medical devices. Packaging materials must be compatible with intended use, and products must be rendered sterile without damage. Terminal sterilization (ETO, Gamma, and E-beam), and aseptic processing methods will be presented.

About Our Speaker 

Abigail Freeman is a chemical engineer with more than 20 years of medical device and bio-pharmaceutical experience. She holds process and medical device patents that were seminal to the commercial success of several class III medical devices. She has been a core contributor to teams that have launched Activase® Tissue Plaminogen Activator, Nutropin® Human Growth Hormone, Collagen Dermal Filler, Collagraft® Bone Graft Matrix, CoSeal® Surgical Sealant, Costasis® Surgical Hemostat, and the world’s first bio-absorbable drug eluting cardiac stent (ABSORB Trial). She is currently working as a consultant to Suneva Medical in San Diego.

Pre-Clinic (30 minutes = 0.15 RU's)

Earned Value Management (EVM) is a tool that is used by many companies in the Defense industries and in the private sectors to monitor project and program performance. This tool gives project’s stakeholders the ability to track schedule and cost progress toward baseline goals. Also it helps forecast future schedule and cost performance based on available data.  

Jean holds a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from National University . He is a Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE), Project Management Professional (PMP), member of the ASQ and PMI San Diego chapter.  He is currently working as a software quality engineer at Cubic Defense Applications Inc. where he has led the quality engineering effort for multiple large projects.   

Jean Ronald Desire MS, PMP, CSQE

Software Quality Engineer

Cell- 858 761 3409

Email – desirejean1@yahoo.com

Meeting details are as follows:

Meeting Details
RSVP	Please use the RSVP form below.
Meeting Date	Tuesday November 10, 2009 (normally the 2nd Tuesday of the month)
Agenda	5:15 pm             Registration & Happy Hour Begins 5:40 pm             Pre-meeting-clinic 6:10 pm             Dinner  6:35 pm             Announcements  6:45 pm             Main program   7:45 pm             Raffle and Speaker Prizes 7:55 pm             Adjourn
Menu	Buffet ... to be determined
Price RSVP Form Here
	NEW sponsor subsidized prices	No Food Arrive Late	Early RSVP	Dinner With RSVP	Dinner Without RSVP
	ASQ Student Members	Free	$5	$10	$12
	Regular Members	Free	$15	$20	$22
	Non-Members	Free	$20	$24	$26
Door Prizes	Door prizes issued at the end of every meeting
Dress	Nice Casual
Location	This month we're at: Country Inn & Suites By Carlson (formerly Prime Hotel, formerly Wyndham San Diego North) 5975 Lusk Boulevard, San Diego CA 92121 Their Phone: (858) 558-1818 see map here
Parking	Ample free parking
RU Points	0.15 pre-clinic meeting (30min) + 0.3 meeting (60min) = 0.45
Other Meeting Support	Announcing the Speakers: You ...or an officer at large Master of Ceremony:  Brett Carter Manning the Sign-in Table:  Officer Joel Davey Announcing the Prizes:  Officer Arta Motadel Ordering the Food:  Manijeh Farrokhi Coordinating the Speakers:  Abe Wong