Past Section Meeting Archives
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Regular section meetings are held at our usual meeting location on the second Tuesday of every month. Past meeting topics in reverse chronological order are listed below. Other related pages are future meetings, this month's meeting, meeting location, and speaker guide. |
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August 10, 2010 |
Topic: "Rapid Cost Reduction" |
Joseph Berk jberk@ManufacturingTraining...com
no pre-meeting-clinic this month |
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July 13, 2010 |
Topic: "Using Lean Six Sigma to Improve a Risk Management Program" |
Officer
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "3 Tips for Giving Your Boss Feedback" by Gregg Oliver |
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June 8, 2010 |
Topic: "Hi-tech patent laws & searching" |
Jimmy Cheng 858-587-1121
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month by Gary Erdell on "data reporting" |
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May 11, 2010 |
Topic: "CMOs in Pharma & Medical Device" |
Mary Richardson Mary.richarson@nextpharma-us.com 858-450-3123
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "How to Succeed in Quality: Part 6, Managing Time"; led by Kim Niles |
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April 14, 2009 |
Topic: "FAGAN & DEFECT-FREE INSPECTION PROCESS" |
Michael Fagan, CEO Michael Fagan Associates |
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March 9, 2010 |
Topic: "Get Certified! Spotlight on ASQ's new Certification for Pharmaceutical GMP Professionals" |
Gabrielle Petrosian 619-204-2344
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "ASQ Divisions & Our Section, Part 1" by Ed Perias, Division Coordinator |
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February 9, 2010 |
Topic: "LinkedIN Turbocharged" |
Philippe Gadeyne pgadeyne@hotmail.com
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "How to Succeed in Quality: Part 5, Elevator Speeches"; led by Kim Niles |
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Jan. 12, 2010 |
Topic: "To Pass a FDA Inspection" |
BioMed Div. Joint Meeting With
Patricia Flaherty 760-688-6785
Different Location: NuVasive 7475 Lusk Boulevard
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Dec. 8, 2009 |
Topic:
"Social & Networking Event"
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Nov. 10, 2009 |
Topic: "Sterilization & Pkg. of Medical Devices"
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Abigail Freeman
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "Earned Value Management"; led by Jean Desire
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Oct. 13, 2009 |
Topic:
"Organized
for Success" |
Nanci McGraw
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "Our Section Educational Programs"; led by Dave Clinard |
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Sep. 8, 2009 |
Topic:
"Lean Product Development: Getting it Right the First Time… and in Half the Time!" |
Keith Boyle, PE,
MBA, CIRM, ASQ Certified Six-Sigma Black-Black, Certified Six-Sigma Master
Black-Belt and Lean Sensei
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "How to Succeed in Quality: Part 4"; led by Kim Niles |
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Aug. 11, 2009 |
Topic: "New approach to Global Quality System" |
Bob Parson, Vice President, Global Clinical & Regulatory Affairs Inverness Medical Innovations 858-357-6491
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "How to Succeed in Quality: Part 3"; led by Kim Niles |
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July 14, 2009 |
Topic: "20 Keys to Workplace Improvement" |
Kenneth Albrecht kennethmalbrecht@yahoo.com 858-829-5941
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "The job of getting a job"; lead by Geoff Hunt |
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June 9, 2009 |
Topic: "Delivering Value to the Business through IT Services" |
Brian Flora, Creative Enterprise Solutions LLC brian.flora@ceslearning.com 480-570-3105
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "How to Succeed in Quality: Part 2"; lead by Kim Niles |
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May 12, 2009
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"AS9100C and the Role of Configuration Management" |
Joe Serrantino 213-880-3902
30 min. pre-meeting-clinic this month on "How to Succeed in Quality: Part 1"; lead by Kim Niles |
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April 14, 2009 |
"FAGAN & DEFECT-FREE INSPECTION PROCESS'" |
Michael Fagan, CEO Michael Fagan Associates |
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Mar. 18, 2009 |
Joint Meeting with IIE & APICS
"Mitigating Risk Between Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality and Process Control" |
Biotech Panel of Experts
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Feb. 10, 2009 |
"Enterprise Excellence"
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Normand L. Frigon Chief
Enterprise Excellence Assistant
Vice President VSE
Corporation Email: nlfrigon@vsecorp.com
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Jan. 13, 2009 |
"The Elephant in the Conference Room: how to make corporate politics work for you instead of against you." |
Grace Judson 760.757.7660
Pre-meeting-clinic this month on "Influencing Others via Communication"; lead by Gregg Oliver |
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Dec. 16, 2008 |
We are taking the month off as well as encouraging a joint meeting with the ASQ FD&C Division on Sampling with Dr. Haury as follows: "Sampling for Release & Audits and for Validation/Verification in Food, Drug and Cosmetics" 5:30 p.m. to 8:30.p.m. Topic outlines: "Attributes Acceptance Sampling is not as boring as ANSI Z1.4 or ISO 2859 would have you think." 1. Cautions in the use of ANSI Z1.4 (e.g. AQL Indexing Values & Switching Required) Assumptions: Representative Samples, Small Sample of Large Lots and Inspection Success Rate. 2. Critical Points in the Behavior of Sampling Plans 3. How Sampling Plans Work to Protect Manufactures AND Customers 4. How to Justify Confidence Statements regarding the Quality of Processes and Products Discussion Leader: John F. Haury Ph.D., CQE, CQM (ASQ certifications) John Haury graduated from UCSD with high honors and earned a research-based Ph.D. from Harvard University (degrees in biology). He earned American Society for Quality certifications as a Quality Engineer and Quality Manager. He was the Total Quality Management Statistician at Ore-Ida Foods. As a company statistician and quality improvement consultant, John applied and taught Six Sigma methods. For the last ten years, John worked for Amgen. Dr. Haury held positions of increasing responsibility including associate director of Six Sigma and quality engineering. He introduced a series of eight introductory-to-advanced problem solving and stats classes which became the basis for Amgen Improvement Methods and then Six Sigma. John Haury is now a full time consultant and owner of www.Applied-Stats.com . Location: Pharmatek Laboratories, Inc., 7330 Carroll Road, suite 200, San Diego, CA 92121 Food: Sandwich (turkey/beef/tuna/ham/vegetarian), chips, cookie, beverages provided. To Register: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=171716 at Acteva.com. Members $20-, Non-members $30- (.3 R.U.s Awarded) For more information, contact: Event Coordinator - Vic Khachatourians, (818) 445-3984, khachavictor@yahoo.com |
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Nov. 11, 2008 |
"Quality at News 8: joint meeting with CSPE & APICS" |
Marcella Lee News Anchor Channel 8 San Diego Weekends 5PM, 6:30PM & 11PM
see more about Marcella at http://www.cbs8.com/news_team/lee.php |
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Oct. 14, 2008 |
"SharePoint for Project Management" |
Jim Franklin, Project Manager Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure 1230 Columbia Street, Suite 1200 San Diego, CA 92101-8517 619.446.4517 direct 619.954.5283 cell
Pre-meeting-clinic this month on "Money Dart Exercise: Explaining Statistics to Others"; lead by Kim Niles |
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Sept. 9, 2008 |
"Preserving Critical Knowledge" |
Roy Webber, SSBB 6 Sigma Technology Group P: 760-845-1282 http://www.6sigmatechforums.com
Pre-meeting-clinic this month on "Quality News Activities - Six Sigma Discussion Group Affinity & China and the Olympics Discussion"; lead by Abe & Kim |
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Aug. 12, 2008 |
"Application of Reliability Demonstration Testing to the Product Development Life Cycle" |
Rick
Ramirez, CRE (858) 458-7253
Pre-meeting-clinic this month on "Justifying Your Job"; lead by Kim Niles |
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Special Date of July 15, 2008 |
"Is there a disconnect between organizational strategy and quality?; Joint Meeting with SSQ & SPIN" |
Dr. Stan Rifkin President of Master Systems Inc. Phone: +1 760
729 3388 Pre-meeting-clinic this month on "Creating Business Relationships that Get Results"; lead by Gregg Oliver |
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June 10, 2008 |
"Making Healthcare Better" |
Bob Reary President breary@healthtoc.org 480-390-3726
Pre-meeting-clinic this month on "Changes in China affecting Quality"; lead by Abe Wong |
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May 13, 2008 |
"Implementing Lean into the Supply Chain" |
Steve Ebbing The Ebbing Group, LLC 619.212.2716
Pre-meeting-clinic this month on "ISO Revs & directions" lead by Vinod Kumar; Proposed changes to ISO 9001; QMSystems Integration to cover multiple standards and requirements; vinod@isoguru.com |
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April 8, 2008 |
"Is Six Sigma Just TQM Warmed Over?" |
Bill Barkau National University MBB
Pre-meeting-clinic this month on "Implementing Statistics into your Quality system using the STAT acronym"; lead by Kim Niles |
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March 11, 2008 |
"We have two ears and one mouth for a reason. Want to know why?" |
Joely Gardner, Ph.D. Human Factors Research, Inc.
Pre-meeting-clinic this month on SSMBB Criteria; lead by John Dooley |
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Feb. 12,
2008 |
"Practical Considerations for Implementing Quality Systems" |
Andrew Campbell Sr. Quality Compliance Associate 858-605-1744 andrewc@qualpartners.com
Pre-meeting-clinic this month on Certification; lead by Rich Ostrin, Section Certification Chair |
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Jan. 8, 2008 |
"Argumentation Science for Quality Professionals" |
Gregg Oliver Officer and Sr. QE with General Atomics
Pre-meeting-clinic this month on Charts & Quality Metrics; lead by Brett Carter |
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Dec. 2007 |
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Nov. 13, 2007 |
"Our Road to Winning the 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award" |
Marci Jackson Premier, Inc. 704 733 2202 720 470 4779 direct
Pre-meeting-clinic this month on sample size determination; lead by Kim Niles |
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Oct. 9, 2007 |
"Group Discussion" (No pre-clinic this month) |
Officer lead discussion. Free food. |
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Sept. 11, 2007 |
"Customer Satisfaction Assessment" |
Diane G. Kulisek President CAPAtrak, LLC Phone: 805-522-5005 Cell: 805-320-7879 Email: dkulisek@capatrak.com Web Address: www.capatrak.com Simi Valley, CA 93065-2303 Also www.qualitywarrior.com |
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Pre-meeting-clinic on outsourcing by Abe Wong with GMPSigma awong@gmpsigma. com and Michelle Nash-Hoff |
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August 14, 2007
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"Accelerating Leadership Effectiveness" |
Nelson R. Zagalsky, Ph.D.
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Pre-meeting-clinic by Ron Sedlock 352-473-6095 |
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July 10, 2007 |
"Leadership Panel of Experts: Managing Change" |
Doug McCloskey, Kim Niles, Ric Van Der Linden,
Vinod Kumar, Fernando Perez, Natalie J. Kennel, Ray Klotz
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June 12, 2007 |
"OEE Night with Two Speakers" |
Frank Snook & Kim Niles
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May
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"Boundaryless
Collaboration:
The
Last Frontier of Six Sigma?"
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Dr. Stephen L. Starling |
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April 10, 2007 |
"Recommendations for Quality Management in Offshore Operations" |
Jim Fish
JRF Associates |
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Mar.13, 2007 |
"Office Lean" & Preview of her latest book! |
Karen
Martin, Principal |
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Feb.13, 2007 |
"Simple Six Sigma: Getting Results" |
Floyd Bates
CEO/Six Sigma Black belt
415-260-3528
Email: fdbates@kriyterion.com |
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Review of latest book; software, hardware, and systems testing. | Rex Black flying in from Texas for this event |
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"Holiday Special Topic for Spouses: Thinking Hats" |
Anthony C. Griffin Principal, http://www.teamworks1.com/ |
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Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) & Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Requirements: Implementation & Challenges |
Vinay Goyal
Sr. Product Environmental Specialist with Guest Speaker Larry Yen |
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"Change – The Secrets of Success" |
Ric Van Der Linden President of Progressivedge.com Adjunct Instructor SDSU & UCSD |
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"Presentation Skills and Visual Goal Setting" |
Bob Freel, TM DTM (highest honor in Toastmasters) |
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"Baldrige Criteria and ISO 9001 as Business Models" |
President ISOguru, Inc. |
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"Lean & Change Management" |
Commander Al Desmarais of the U.S. Navy's Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC)
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"PREPARING FOR AND MANAGING FDA INSPECTIONS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION" |
James E. Kozick Two Society Joint Meeting |
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"The Process-Based Approach: |
Ron
Sedlock, CQMgr, CQE, CQA, CRE 352-473-6095 |
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"BioMed Education & Quality" |
Dr. Dale Sevier, SDSU
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March, 7 Special Date, 2006 |
“Generations of Quality; From first hand experience with Deming, Juran, and Taguchi, to India, Six Sigma, & ASQ's 18th QM Conference” |
Mahesh
Chinnagiri & His Father |
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Feb 14, 2006 |
"Systems Thinking: |
Ron
Sedlock, CQMgr, CQE, CQA, CRE 352-473-6095 |
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Jan 10, 2006 |
"Pretend Lean vs. Real Lean Manufacturing – How To Tell The Difference" |
Roger Olsen |
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Details Dec. 13, '05 See Santa photos |
"Risk Management and Assessment – Designing Out Unacceptable Risk" |
Keith Boyle |
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Details Nov. 8, '05 |
Dual Response Design of Experiments |
Ned Schneider (949) 525-1687 nedsch@cox. net |
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Details Oct. 11, '05 |
New Certification Recognition Party - Free Pizza for All | |||
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Details Sept. 13, '05 |
"Quality Passion Night: 9 Guest Speakers & DOE Helicopter Exp." |
Kim Niles - Delta Design, Inc. 858-848-8000 |
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Details Aug 9, '05 |
"Lean - Six Sigma Best Practices; Verari Systems" |
Jane Marshall |
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Details July 12, '05 |
"China's new FDA Regulations & Beyond" |
Abe Wong |
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Details June 14,'05 |
Quality in eTrade and Export Financing |
John Dunlop JDunlop@InterNetLC. com |
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Details May 10,'05 |
"GMP for Nutritional Food Manufacturer" |
Phil Harvey, PhD |
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Details Apr.12,'05 |
"The Role of Quality Assurance Professionals in Global Competition from a CEO's perspective" |
Andrew Chu, Ph.D. 001-766-744-6288 |
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Details Mar. 8, 2005 |
"Understanding the Human Brain: It’s Capacities, Its Limitations and Sources of Human Error" |
Ed Chaplin, MD. |
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Details Feb 8, 2005 |
"DFMA-Design for Manufacture and Assembly" |
Shin Ta Liu |
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Details Special Wednesday Jan. 12,'05 |
"Quick Process Changeover" |
Keith Boyle |
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No Meeting ... Happy Holidays |
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Nov. 9,'04 |
"Pizza Party" for all test takers in celebration of educational efforts made | |||
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Oct.12, '04 |
"The Blind Inspector" |
By: Frank De Meo 909-719-7524 |
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September 14, 2004 |
"Validation of Computer Systems" |
By: Rich
Poser, Ph.D. 858-780-0351 |
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August 10, 2004 |
"Universal Process Method, an alternative approach to the design of management systems for compliance and control purposes." |
By: Doug McCloskey
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"How to mobilize front-line workers to contribute toward Quality Management Objectives" |
By: Peer Reinhard, President and founder of Quality-on-line office: 858 847 9977 |
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"Combining Lean and Six Sigma"
A joint meeting with SMTA |
By: Sally Ulman |
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"The Quality Representative of the Future" |
(714) 469-0140 mobile |
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Details April '04 |
"Lessons Learned for Increasing Engineering Development Productivity" |
By: Daniel P. Olivier http://www.certifiedsoftware.com |
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Mar. '04
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Feb. '04
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"Smooth Change – Oxymoron or Achievable Goal?" by Tim Scudder - CEO and Vice-President of Personal Strengths Publishing, a global publisher of training and performance improvement tools. |
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Jan. '04
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“Joint Meeting with APICS; Understanding & Implementing ISO 13485:2003" by Richard Basler |
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Dec. '03
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"FDA Work
Planning Overview" by CAPT James P. Stumpff, R. Ph.
United States Public Health Service Supervisory Investigator Los Angeles District, San Diego Resident Post |
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Nov. '03
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“Rolling Six Sigma out to the Supply Chain using Relationship Management.” by Dr. Steven Starling - Associate Professor University of San Diego , Director of Resident Supply Chain Management Programs. |
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Oct. '03
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"ISO/FDIS 13485, The Global Device GMP" by
James E. Stanley, MS Regulatory / Clinical Consultants, Inc. |
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Sept. '03
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"Building on Baldrige " by Gary Rossi, CPCM, CBC |
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Aug. '03
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"Speaking of Ethics" |
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July '03
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"Be a champion - Take your organization beyond ISO 9001" - Vinod Kumar |
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June '03
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"Inthinking & Enterprise |
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May '03
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"Solar Turbines' ISO Journey" by: Drew Marston and Jim Berch
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April '03
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"Automating Supplier Corrective Action and Scorecard Processes Across an Extended Supply Chain" by: Ted Lesher Regional Sales Mgr. with NexPrise |
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Mar. 03
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"Whose Line-Manager Is It Anyway?": A Humorous Look at Management & Teamwork Principles by: Milo Shapiro & Lee Krevat With ImproVentures |
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Feb. 03
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"ISO transitions- actual experiences and issues, an auditors perspective" by: Jim Rivas and Bea H. Ng with BVQI. |
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Jan. 03
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"ISO Internal Audit Program Enhancement via 5S Program Implementation" by: Diane Geldreich |
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Dec. 02
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"Software Specification, Quality and Profitability: The Undiscovered Country" by: Frode Odegard - Ødegård Labs ... now http://www.leansoftwareinstitute.com/ |
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Nov. 02
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"Behavior-Based Improvement: The Next Step to Achieving Six Sigma Performance" by: Jim Spigener V.P. of Performance Improvement Technology; Behavioral Science Technology, Inc. |
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Oct. 02
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"Four rules and a box of tools" by: John White With 1-for-all |
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Sept. 02
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"QFD: Quality Function Deployment" by: Glenn Mazur with Japan Business Consultants, Ltd. |
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August 02
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"IPC 600, 610 and 620 Overview" by: Frank Stetson of Training & Certification Specialists of Manchester, NH. |
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July 02
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"Process Capability Optimization" by: Dr.John Flaig - Principal Consultant & Managing Director with Applied Technology |
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June 02
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"Lean Manufacturing: Why It's Not Easy and How to Make It Work" by: Roger Olson of Systems Quality.com |
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May 02
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"The power of statistical thinking" (Joint Meeting with Deming Group) by: Phil Monroe |
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Apr.02
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"Systematic Problem Solving (SPS)" by: Fernando Perez |
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Mar.02
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"Creating a vision in supply chain strategy (AQC Conference)" by: Chuck Miller & Dick Gould |
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Feb.02
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“Transition
to ISO 9001:2000"
by: Sidney Vianna |
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Jan.02
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"Value Added
Auditing" by: Greg Hutchins |
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Dec.01
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"Using Control Charts to Evaluate the
Measurement Process Presented By: Ms. McMahon |
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Nov.01
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"Quality in Communication" Presented By: Philip M. Black |
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Oct.01
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"ISO 9000:2000 Transition Now - Why Wait Until 2003?" Presented By: Ms. Diane Geldreich |
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Sep.01
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"An
Introduction & Overview of the State of California Food & Drug Branch
Presented By: Barbara
Moynier |
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Jul.01
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"The Dynamics of Communication" Presented By: Jim Muller |
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