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• Professional Society Background

• Advisory Boards / Think Tanks Represent

1. American Society for Quality (ASQ; 104,000 members):
   • San Diego Section 703:  Fellow Member (2008).  Newsletter Editor and Webmaster 2001-present.   National Six Sigma Conference committee member January 2001 (Got to introduce Tom Pyzdek!).  Multiple committees chaired.  Multiple times as speaker.  
   • Palomar Section 708:  Former finance and awards committee member.  Multiple times as speaker.  
   • Temecula Section 713:  Participated in establishing this section via Section 703 committee providing financial and other sponsoring efforts.  
2. Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE; 102+ chapters world wide; formed in 1944):
   • San Diego Chapter: Director 1999-2001, Chair 1998-1999, Vice Chair 1997-1998, Treasurer 1996-1997, Secretary 1995-1996, and Webmaster from 1997-2004.
   • International Symposium ISSE45/SAMPE2000 (Long Beach CA Convention Center):
     • International Symposium General Finance Chair  
     • Process Management Sessions Chair
     • Speaker for two sessions 
   • International Officer:  Webmaster for International SAMPE 1999-2000.
3. San Diego Engineering Society (SDES):  Vice Pres. 1998-1999. 10,500 members. 41 local Organizations
4. San Diego County Engineering Council (SDCEC): Numerous officer positions on the board.
5. San Diego National Engineering Week (NEW; Every February; 15+ local Organizations):
   • Representative for SAMPE since 1998.
   • Representative for ASQ since 2002.
6. Toastmasters Escondido Chamber of Commerce Club #5529:  Every Tuesday evening.  Club webmaster.   CTM level member status. 
7. Mathcounts:  Volunteer 2003.  Representative for SAMPE and ASQ since 2002.  Competition for San Diego Middle schools sponsored by Hewlett Packard and several local organizations.  Successfully raised $2,750 for this event as of Feb. 2006.
8. American Electronics Association (AeA):  San Diego Council member and board member.  Hosted two events (supply chain forum ~Oct. 2005, Lean guru April 2006).    The AeA Operations Roundtable for February 8, 2006 was on: "Kaizen Blitz Training, An Overview", presented by Mike Osterling.  March, 2007 in planning on VSM.
9. BPS International Tour Group:  IDEC Biogen Facility Tour Feb 15, 2005
10. San Diego ISO Users Group:  Hosted and coordinated tour / presentation January 19, 2005.
11. Society for Software Quality:  Member 2008-9. 
12. Other Society Meetings I Occasionally Attend:  IIE, NAPM, SPIN, SDRAN, APICS, ASM, ISM, More soon

• SDSU's Master of Science Bio-Medical Quality Systems degree program since 2004.
  • Guru Dr. Douglas Montgomery (famous author and statistician) is also on this committee and I've audited his classes!!  See http://interwork.sdsu.edu/cbbd/aboutus.htm
  • Average score of "excellent" for final evaluations for Change Management class  
• UCSD’s Six Sigma Black Belt Certification Program since ~2001
  • Also provide guest speaking on DOE case studies with Dr. Leonard Perry from USD.  See http://eng-ed.ucsd.edu/six-sigma.html and http://extension.ucsd.edu/programs/eng/leansixsigma.html 
  • 6th wave of Black Belts Spring 2008. 
  • Average score of "excellent" for final evaluations
  • 9 units of credit per class plus certification toward Mechanical / Aerospace Engineering     
• Roadmaps Institute industry think tank representative 2006. 
• Palomar College’s Quality A.A. degree and certificate program  2002 - 2004
  • Also assisting in developing possible distance educational courses.  See http://www.palomar.edu/vocationalprograms/QUALITY.html 
• Supply Chain Strategy Think Tank Member - more here soon (Aug.2006-).
• Pending advisory board member for Foundation College
• Pending advisory board member for CSUDH, 2008 - present