Quality Management Staff: Resources & Qualifications
Mike Paten
has over 25 years of operational and corporate level experience in quality management and
productivity improvement. He has specialized
in developing, assessing, and implementing ISO 9000 compliant quality management systems
for industrial and engineering activities, and most recently served as Director of Quality
for an engineering and industrial complex with 6500 employees. Mike holds a Master's Degree in Public
Administration, and has helped design tools and processes to help small businesses assess,
develop, implement and improve their quality systems.
Mike is an RAB Certified QMS Auditor (RAB Certificate QS-A 05831), and a member of
the American Society for Quality.
Aimee Cecil has
over 7 years of progressively responsible experience in quality management and process
improvement activities. Aimee
has experience in developing and implementing quality management systems and has helped
several organizations achieve ISO/QS 9000 registration.
Aimee also has experience in planning and
implementing Kaizen events, workforce development programs, and other floor level
continuous improvement activities. Aimee
holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration,
has completed the RAB Accredited Lead QMS Auditor Training Course, has applied for RAB QMS
Auditor certification, and is a member of the American Society for Quality.
* Bob Abbott
is an international quality management consultant with over 35 years experience in the
development and assessment of quality management systems. Bob is a member and founding secretary of the ANSI
Accredited Standards Committee Z-1 on Quality Assurance and a member of the U.S. Technical
Advisory Group to ISO Technical Committee 176 on Quality Management and Quality Assurance,
the developers and custodians of the ISO 9000 series standards. He is a Registrar
Accreditation Board (RAB) certified Quality Management System Lead Auditor (RAB
Certificate QS-LA 04452), a Fellow of the American Society for Quality, and an ASQ
Certified Quality Engineer. Bob is also one of a handful of auditors in the U.S.
that audits registrars for the Registrar Accreditation Board.
* Mark Dean has over 21 years experience in
engineering, management, and the leadership of large engineering and industrial
organizations. He is an ASQ Certified Quality
Engineer, an RAB Certified QMS Auditor (RAB Certificate QS-A 05789), and a Senior member
of the American Society for Quality. Mark
holds Master's Degrees in Engineering, Management, and Psychology. He sat on the Steering
Committee for the QuBE process, Louisville's equivalent of the Malcolm Baldrige Award, and
has served as a Lead QuBE Evaluator. A
nationally recognized Quality Expert, Mark chaired the committee which wrote the top level
Quality Policy document for all Navy Weapons and Combat Systems, applicable to over 20
major installations and over 50,000 people worldwide.
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