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Baltimore 0502 Newsletter December 2024

***PLEASE NOTE MEETING IS ONE WEEK LATER THAN USUAL*** Our May 21st meeting will be held as a Virtual Meeting with both a program and tutorial. Manny Veloso is our guest speaker. Manny’s hands-on approach has provided practical, real-world solutions for countless companies. Manny holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Rider University and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Penn State. Manny has delivered projects and trained internationally. He has a Master Black Belt certification and is a guest lecturer at Holy Family University, Temple University and spoken at industry conferences. Additionally, he is an ...

Our April 9th meeting will be held as a Virtual Meeting with both a program and tutorial. Stacey Largent is a senior consultant at ValSource, Inc. Over the past 4.5 years, she has specialized in consulting on the following topics: quality risk management (QRM), aseptic processing, sterility assurance, and supporting the needs of vaccine/biopharmaceutical product development and manufacturing. In the space of QRM, Stacey facilitates complex risk assessments and develops phase-appropriate programs, role-based training content, and customized risk assessment methodologies. She holds a B.S. in biomedical engineering from Drexel University ...

Our March 12th meeting will be held as a Virtual Meeting with both a program and tutorial. Our featured speaker is Douglas C. Wood. With over 40 years in the areas of cost of quality, office waste, root cause analysis, performance measurement, Mr. Wood has taught these plus auditing, Lean, Six Sigma, statistics, and failure modes and effects analysis. He has 5 ASQ certifications: CQE, CQA, SSBB, CMQ/OE, and CQPA. Author/ editor of "The Executive Guide to Understanding and Implementing Quality Cost Programs", (ASQ Press 2007); "Principles of Quality Cost: Financial Measures for Strategic Implementation of Quality Management" 4th ed. (ASQ Press 2013) ...

SAVE THE DATE – March 16, 2024! ASQ Baltimore Section 0502 is seeking quality professionals to serve as volunteer judges at the Morgan State University Science-Mathematics-Engineering Fair Middle & High school students from greater Baltimore submit projects in physical, biological, earth & environmental, and mathematics & computer sciences. This is an in-person event! · Inspire young students. · Be rewarded for volunteering for your community. · Meet other like-minded volunteers. · Your volunteer work may inspire a future scientist! ...

Our February13 meeting will be held as a Virtual Meeting with both a program and tutorial. Our featured speaker is Zac Jarrard. Zac is the President of Jarrard Consulting, LLC. The company is dedicated to bringing out the best in people through team building activities, project management training, and workshops to improve intergenerational communication at work. Zac holds a Master of Science in Information Systems and Business Analytics, MPA and MBA from Park University. His research interests include gamification, project management, and working across different generations. Outside of his company, Zac is heavily involved in the community. He is a proud ...

Our November 14 meeting will be held as a Virtual Meeting with both a program and tutorial. Our featured speaker is Susan Gorveatte. Susan is President of Gorveatte Consulting Inc. and is a Quality Auditor, Trainer and Coach. She has worked 25+ years in ISO 9001 Quality Management & Quality Customer Service. She has been successful blending the right amount of art and science needed to create a formula to success for organizations to consistently meet and even exceed client expectations. With a passion to help companies succeed, Susan has trained hundreds of companies from small entrepreneurial based organizations to large national and international ...

Our October 10 meeting will be held as a Virtual Meeting with both a program and tutorial. Our featured speaker is Zac Jarrard. Zac Jarrard is the President of Jarrard Consulting, LLC. The company is dedicated to bringing out the best in people through team building activities, project management training, and workshops to improve intergenerational communication at work. Zac holds a Master of Science in Information Systems and Business Analytics, MPA and MBA from Park University. His research interests include gamification, project management, and working across different generations. Outside of his company, Zac is heavily involved in the community. He is ...

Our September 12 meeting will be held as a Virtual Meeting followed by our Town Hall in which we really hope to hear from you! Our featured speaker is Susan Gorveatte. Susan is President of Gorveatte Consulting Inc. and is a Quality Auditor, Trainer and Coach. She has worked 25+ years in ISO 9001 Quality Management & Quality Customer Service.  She has been successful blending the right amount of art and science needed to create a formula to success for organizations to consistently meet and even exceed client expectations.   With a passion to help companies succeed, Susan has trained hundreds of companies from small entrepreneurial based ...

ASQ Baltimore Section 0502 September 12, 2023 virtual Town Hall Our September Virtual Member Meeting will have two parts- the first half will be a speaker demonstrating the new ASQ websites and where you can locate valuable resources. The second half will be a Town Hall. This will be an opportunity to meet your section’s leadership team and to dialogue with us. We will have some questions for attendees---meetings, venues, events, topics to enhance career and interpersonal skills. What questions do you have for us? To ensure we have time to research responses, please send your questions to us using the section ...