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Welcome to ASQ St Petersburg - Tampa !!
The St. Petersburg - Tampa Section 1508 consists of more than 500+ members in Tampa Bay area from Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties.

Section 1508 offers many services to the members.
* Monthly meetings feature presentations on variety of quality-related subjects by recognized speakers
* Assist members with new and renewing ASQ certifications
* Education and training opportunities are offered to the members through other local professional associations and training partners
* Posting of local jobs in the quality field are available to the members on the website, via e-mail notification and LinkedIn group

ASQ Tampa Bay needs your support so we continue to provide our members with effective leadership and section operation. There multiple ways you can support your local section:

We need speakers for 2022 (webinar/live dinner meeting)

If you or someone you know is considered an expert in one or multiples Quality tools, or have a success story that you can share with our members, please contact us so you can become a speaker on future ASQ meeting. Speakers are eligible to claim up to 1.5 recertification units to maintain ASQ certifications (i.e CQA, CQE, CSSBB, CSSGB, etc).

Host or sponsor an event with ASQ Tampa Bay in 2022

Although we cannot deliver live events just yet, we would like to start planning for live events after summer break, when its allowed by ASQ, and local and state ordinance. If you and your company is capable of hosting one or two monthly meeting during 2022 and provide room for 25-35 member (max 50) we like to hear from you, so please contact us via myASQ or leave us a comment so we can plan an event for later this year. ASQ can provide all equipment and support needed as well as catering arrangements.

Our Section is run entirely by the efforts of volunteers. ASQ Tampa Bay section needs your support is pleased to announce new board members elected for 2021 - see below for current member leaders and open positions:

ASQ TAMPA BAY SECTION 1508 - 2021 Board members
(Updated 02-09-2021)

Board Position	Name
Section Chair	Luz Bueno
Treasurer	Kathy Gustafson
Audit Chair	Melissa Stefko
Membership/VoC Chair	Luz Bueno
Secretary	Kathleen Rutt
Arrangement Co-Chair	William Dunn
Arrangement Chair	Tai Nguyen
Program Chair	Ron Proskie
Internet Liaison	Jeff Jerrell
Recertification Chair	Richard Wong
Recertification Chair	Sara Kaplan
Publicity Chair	Blanca Padrino

2022 MEETING CALENDAR SCHEDULE
Upcoming virtual meeting/webinar event details will be emailed to ASQ S1508 members and posted in myASQ Section 1508 Events section soon.

*** Call for speakers to support 2022 meeting calendar ***
If you or someone you know is considered an expert in one or multiples Quality tools, or have a success story that you can share with our members, please contact our Program Chair, Ron Proskie at rproskie@memberleader.asq.org , or Luz Bueno, Section Chair at Lbueno@memberleader.asq.org so we can coordinate. Speakers are eligible to claim up to 1.5 recertification units to maintain ASQ certifications (i.e CQA, CQE, CSSBB, CSSGB, etc).

2021 MEETING CALENDAR (UPDATED 11-15-2021)

Month	Meeting Date*	Hosting Location	Meeting Details**
January	No meeting in January	----------------	----------------
February	Monday Feb 15^th	Virtual Event - WebEx	Speaker: Bill Peterson Topic: “Understanding Overseas Auditing: Pitfalls and Best Practices”
March	No meeting in March	----------------	----------------
April	Monday Apr 12^th	Virtual Event - WebEx	Speaker: Vivian Bringslimark, HPIS Consulting, Inc. Topic: Excited About GDPS: It’s All About Your Messaging and Your Mindset
May	Monday May 10^th	Virtual Event - WebEx	Speaker: Ross Metusalem Topic: Multivariate SPC for Monitoring Multiple Related Process Variables in a Single Chart (SPC Part I)
June	Monday June 14^th	Virtual Event - WebEx	Speaker: Ross Metusalem Topic: TBD - SPC Tools Part II
July	No meeting – Summer break
August	No meeting – Summer break
September	No meeting in September	----------	---------------------
October	Monday Oct 25th	Virtual Event	Guest speakers: Kemal Oflus, Systems Engineer for JMP, a business unit of SAS, and Brian Washington, Account Manager for JMP, a business unit of SAS Topic: "Moving Beyond DMAIC & Six Sigma - Predictive Modeling & Text"
November	Monday Nov 15th	Virtual Event	Guest speakers: Kemal Oflus, Systems Engineer & Brian Washington, Account Manager for JMP, a business unit of SAS Topic: "Machine Learning & Text Analytics"
December	-----	-------	No meeting in December

* Meeting Date to be announced, if "TBD" is listed. Any published dates may be subject to change to accommodate speaker(s) availability.
** Meeting details and registration info will be posted in Events page.

ASQ St Petersburg - Tampa members and section board members would like to sincerely thank our hosting facilities and their team members for their continued support and efforts: