Program 2007-2008 Meeting Dates Announced.
Mark your Calendar for the following dates for the upcoming year. . .
August 2007
Aug 29 – Section Board Meeting
September 2007
Sep 11 – Dinner Meeting
Sep 25 – Section Board Meeting
October 2007
Oct 17 – Breakfast Meeting
Oct 18 – Dinner Meeting
Oct 30 – Section Board Meeting
November 2007
Nov 13 – Dinner Meeting
Nov 14 – Breakfast Meeting
Nov 27 – Section Board Meeting
December 2007
Dec 6 – Dinner Meeting
Dec 20 – Breakfast Meeting
January 2008
Jan 8 – Dinner Meeting
Jan 29 – Section Board Meeting
February 2008
Feb 7 – Dinner Meeting
Feb 26 – Section Board Meeting
March 2008
Mar 11 – Dinner Meeting
Mar 25 – Section Board Meeting
April 2008
Apr 10 – Dinner Meeting
Apr 29 – Section Board Meeting
May 2008
May 13 – Dinner Meeting
May 20 – Section Board Meeting
Section members are welcome to attend any of the meetings. We look forward to seeing you.
Watch for future updates (any changes will be noted on the website). The Calendar page will have the updates.
Maryland Not-for-Profit’s Process Improvements Lead to Award-Winning Success
From the ASQ Weekly:
Since entering its first state quality award program in 2002, Chimes, an ASQ Community Good Works grant recipient, has received five awards in Maryland and Delaware. ASQ has published a case study about Chimes’ successes. If you have a success story to tell and would like to have a case study written about your organization or project, contact Noel Wilson at ASQ (nwilson @ asq . org).
June 2007 Certification Recipients
CQE:
Muhammad Guizari
Craig Beifus
CQA:
Scott Ridgell
J. Wade Atkins
Julie Curtis
Ellen Taylor
Melody Zacharko
Robert Silver
CQIA:
Mervat Mansour
CQPA:
Rebecca Fabyan
CSSGB:
Rochard Pecone
Jennifer Zipf
John Garrigues
Sivakumar Chennuru
Congratulations on your achievement!
ASQ Newsletter – Returning and asking for Submission help
Jim Cooper has begun work on bringing back the ASQ Newsletter. Welcome Jim back to the board, and please help to fill out the newsletter with member news and any articles on Quality.
Newsletter Feedback We are always interested in your thoughts concerning the Section newsletter. Suggestions for article content, criticisms of previously run articles, and even accolades, when you feel that they are appropriate, are of interest to us. You are our customers, and we want to make sure that we are serving your needs.
Jim Cooper
Quality Systems Engineering
Committee MemberShip
The Section Board is presenting the Section Committees for the 2007-2008 Program Year.
* Breakfast Committee – Jo McLaughlin, Susan Spurgeon
* Evaluations – Mark Berron
* Publicity – Lauren Fagan
* Newsletter – Jim Cooper
* Voicemail – John Yeager
* Internet / Website – Eric Finegan (”Eric F”)
* Yahoo Groups – Kathy Free
* Membership Committee – Susan Spurgeon
* Nominating Committee – Jina Eckhardt
* Placement / Jobseekers – Eric Finegan (”Eric F”)
* Recognitions – Jina Eckhardt
* Education Committee – Joan Richter
* Proctor – Jim Elliott
* Examining/Recertification – Joan Richter
* Quality Community/MPEA Liaison – Kevin Gilson
* Section Management Plan – Nancy Hall, Susan Spurgeon
* Audit Committee – Bob Rayme
* Section Advisor 2006-2008 – Ron Savoie, Jo McLaughlin, Jina Eckhardt
Current Openings within the Board include:
Program Committee -
Arrangements Committee -
Student Branch Counselor -
Advisor 2007-2009 -
(not filled)
Your local section is always looking for volunteers to assist your section work for its members. If you have something to offer, please review our Section Board position page and contact us if there is something you are interested in. Every committee can use help from the membership.
Section Executive Board
The Section Board is presenting your officers for the 2007-2008 Program Year.
* Chair – Eric Whichard (”Eric W”)
Eric Whichard (BS, MBA) is past Vice-Chair and previously held the position of Treasurer while also assisting in the Arrangements role. He has 20+ years experience in chemical manufacturing quality, currently as manager in a divisional quality organization of W.R. Grace & Co. (HQ in Columbia, MD). He is a senior member with certifications including QM, QE, and SSBB, who joined in 1982.
* Vice-Chair – Joan Richter
Joan Richter, CQA, is taking over Vice-chair of the ASQ Baltimore section 0502. Her other duties within the Section Board include Education Chair and Certification Chair. JR is currently a Senior Quality Assurance Specialist for IDS, a subsidiary of ICON Clinical Development, a Clinical Research Organization based in Columbia Maryland. She has 15+ years experience in chemical manufacturing quality.
* Treasurer – Aron Brall
Aron Brall (BS, MBA) is past Treasurer and has been assisting in the Arrangements role. He has 30+ years experience in Reliability and Quality, currently as Reliability Services Area Team Leader for SRS Technologies at Goddard Space Flight Center. He is a Senior Member with certification in Reliability Engineering and has been an ASQ member wince 1992.
* Secretary – Eric Finegan (”Eric F”)
Eric Finegan CQA, CBA, is past Secretary, current Placement/Jobseekers Chair, as well as the Webmaster for the ASQ Baltimore section website. Eric is currently VP, Regulatory and Quality Affairs at DeJarnette Research Systems, Inc, a medical imaging software company in Towson, MD. He has 15+ years of software development and software quality experience in the financial, air traffic control and medical imaging sectors.
Your local section is always looking for volunteers to assist your section work for its members. If you have something to offer, please review our Section Board position page and contact us if there is something you are interested in. Every committee can use help from the membership.
Fall 2007 Breakfast Meeting Program Announced
The fall program for Breaksfast meetings has been announced.
* October 17 – Northrop Gruman at BWI – Liz Iverson, Vice President will speak
* November 14 – Baltimore Air Coil in Jessup — Kerry Higgins will present their DMAIC Problem Solving Model
* December 20 – Tersiguel’s French County Restaurant in Ellicott City
Watch for future information.
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