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Stephen is a Senior Member of ASQ, Past Metropolitan Section Chair and is a certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE).
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November Section Meeting – Understanding Graduate Programs in Quality Management

If your interests are to advance your education, this presentation offers insight into the available Graduate Programs in Quality Management/Quality Assurance. Discussed will be the differences between the programs. This presentation is limited to only MS programs in the US, and also will not include certification programs, or those programs with an emphasis on Quality.
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Auditing Management Systems Workshop

Event CancelledThis workshop is designed for auditors-in-training, auditors, audit supervisors and audit managers who have responsibility for auditing processes within management systems (e.g., quality, environmental, health and safety, and security management systems) in accordance with the requirements of ISO 19011, ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO/TS16949 and similar standards.

The workshop covers in detail (a) the considerations for establishing the overall auditing system (b) the differences in the processes for internal audit, supplier audit and third party audit, and (c) the process for performing an individual audit of any management system, in addition to quality, environmental, health and safety management systems – other than a financial management system.

Upon completion of this workshop, one will be able to:

  • Use audit terminology;
  • Understand the differences among internal, supplier and third party auditing;
  • Understand the factors to be considered in establishing an integrated auditing system;
  • Design, and, implement an integrated auditing system;
  • Plan the auditing activities for a given time period;
  • Establish the audit objective – "compliance-based" or "effectiveness-based";
  • Establish the audit scope – "risk-based" or "non-risk based";
  • Determine data collections techniques – "system-based" / "program-based", "performance-based" and/or "results-based";
  • Lead the performance of any individual audit, step-by-step, in detail;
  • Manage and assess the effectiveness of the integrated auditing system.

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Announcement, Event, News

The 2013 Ott Conference is in the planning stage…

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NY/NJ Metropolitan Section
Ellis R. Ott Conference

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The 2013 Ott Conference is in the planning stage. Please check back soon for details.

The 2012 Coference
"Learn it Today, Use it Monday"
was a great success

About the 2012 Workshop

The Ellis R. Ott Workshops in 2012 feature hands-on seminars, this year focusing. data mining, modeling leadership organizational structures, and applying lean methods to institutional quality systems.

The workshop-based model emphasizes skills under the theme of "Learn it Today, Use it Monday" – tools that attendees will receive personalized, capped-class size instructor led tools that can be immediately re-applied upon returning to the office following the conference. As such, the conference provides attendees the opportunity to obtain an immediate return on the time invested. This year’s workshop outputs feature take-home, out of the box quality control methods using Excel macros, creating a "two page quality manual", or a tailored leadership model depending on the attendee’s area of interest.

To preserve the quality of the face to face instruction, class sizes are kept small and seats will be limited.

The 2012 conference featured three all-day workshops:

  • QI Macros and Data Mining — Jay Arthur
  • Leading Organizations to Excellence — Thomas Pyzdek
  • Creating a Leaner Quality Management System — Mike Micklewright

About the Ellis R. Ott Conference

The Ott conference, now in its sixth decade was founded by Ellis R. Ott, Rutgers professor and early proponent of statistical quality control methodologies in American industry. Originally initiated in the late 1940S as the All Day Quality Conference on Statistical Control and Statistics in Industry at Rutgers University, the NY/NJ Metropolitan Section is proud to continue the tradition of fostering practical quality skills in the ever evolving contemporary quality profession.

Registration fees are

On or before 20 May 2012

ASQ Member………………………$149.95
General/Non-ASQ Member……$174.95

After 20 May 2012

ASQ Member………………………$174.95
General/Non-ASQ Member……$199.95
Student Rate………………………..$ 34.95

To Register

go to http://ott2012.eventbrite.com/
or Email asqsection0300@gmail.com for more details.

 
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Calendar of Events 2012-2013

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If you cannot register on Eventbrite for any event, please contact Mr. Samir Joshi to be wait listed

 

DATE TIME TOPIC LOCATION
Friday, 9/07/12 All Day ISO-9001-2008 Auditing and Corrective Acton Follow-up New Jersey Transit, Kearney, NJ
Friday, 9/21/12 6:00pm-9:00pm
Plant Tour: AB-InBev/Budweiser Brewery
 Budweiser Brewery, Newark
10/01 to 02/12 Two full days Auditing Management Systems Course (ISO 19011):
Presenter: Ben Marguglio		 Bergen Community College
Saturday
10/06/12		 8:00am-1:00pm Certification Exam CBA,CMQ/OE,CQI,CQT,SSBB,MBB,CHA,CRE
Register with ASQ Headquarters		 Fordham Univ.  NYC Lincoln Ctr. Campus.
Tuesday, 10/09/12 6:00pm-8:300pm Section Meeting: ASQ Mission/Organization Presentation
Speaker: David Levy, Region 3 Director		 Spanish Tavern, Newark, NJ
Tuesday, 11/12/12 6:00pm-8:30pm Section Meeting: Healthcare presentation To be determined
Saturday, 12/01/12 8:00am-1:00pm Certification Exam (CCT, CQA, CQE, CQIA, CQPA,SSGB, CSQE, CPGP) Fordham Univ. NYC Lincoln Ctr. Campus.
12/03-07/2012 All Week Deming Conference on Applied Statistics Tropicana Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ
Section Meeting Economic and Quality Trends in China:Challenges and Opportunities by Lynn Tang, PhD and Irene Wei, PhD Spanish Tavern, Newark, NJ
2/05 to 08/2013 8:00am-5:00pm 3 Days Event CancelledCMQ/OE TRAINING COURSE (Russ Westcott –Instructor) To be determined
Tuesday, 2/15/13 6:00pm-9:30pm General Section Meeting and Spouse Night A Ten Course Chinese Banquet in Chinatown – NYC Chatham Square Restaurant
6 Chatham Square New York, New York 10038
Saturday, 3/02/13 8:00am-1:00pm Certification Exam CBA,CMQ/OE,CQI,CQT,SSBB,MBB,CHA,CRE
Register with ASQ Headquarters		 Fordham Univ.  NYC Lincoln Ctr. Campus.
Tuesday, 3/04/13 6:00pm-8:30pm Dinner Meeting: Joint meeting with
NJIT Student Section		 NJIT
Newark, NJ
March 2013 All Day Basic Statistics New Jersey Transit, Kearney, NJ
Tuesday, 4/09/13 6:00pm-8:30pm Section Meeting
Cost of Quality/ROI Presentation		 To be determined
April 2013 All Day Root Cause Analysis Course: Instructor: Ben Marguglio To be determined
5/06-08/13 Three days ASQ Annual World Conference on Quality and Improvement Indianapolis, Indiana
Tuesday, 5/14/13 6:00pm-8:30pm Section Meeting: Lessons-Learned/Survivor Stories Presentation To be determined
May 2013 All day Risk Management Course To be determined
June 2013 All Day ASQ ‘FREE’ Member-Leader Training, by Northeast Quality Council Holiday Inn, Marlboro, MA
June 2013 All Day ASQ ‘FREE’ Member-Leader Training, by Northeast Quality Council Crowne Plaza Hotel, Suffern, NY
6/01/13 8:00am-1:00pm Certification Exam CCT,CQA,CQE,CQIA,CQPA,SSGB,CSQE,CPGP Fordham Univ.  NYC Lincoln Ctr. Campus.
6/13/13 6:00pm-8:30pm Section Meeting:
Balanced Scorecard Presentation		 To be determined
Friday (to be announced)

All Day

 ISO-9001-2008 Auditing and Corrective Acton Follow-up New Jersey Transit, Kearney, NJ

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Announcement

Nominations for 2012-2013 Section Officers

Nominations for the 2012-2013 period

The Nominating Committee nominated the following to serve on the NY/NJ Metropolitan Leadership Board for the year 2012-2013:

Position

Nominee

Note

 Chairman

 Austin S. Lin

 as second term

 Chair-Elect

 Sandor Juhasz

 as second term

 Vice-Chair

  Jorge Rosas

  

 Secretary

 Mike Tedaldi

 as second term

 Treasurer

 Samir Joshi

     

The following is an extract from our ByLaws regarding Nominations and Elections:

6.1 The Section Chair, with the approval of the Leadership Committee, shall appoint the members of the Section Nominating Committee.  The Nominating Committee shall nominate, at a minimum, one eligible candidate for each elected position. In addition, a call for nominations from the general Section membership shall be made at least 30 days in advance of the presentation of nominees.  Nominations from the general Section membership shall require the submission of a nomination petition, signed by at least 10 Members, and submitted to the Section Secretary prior to the date published.

6.2  If there is not more than one nominee for an elected position, the nominee shall be declared elected by acclamation at the next regular meeting of this Section.  Any contested positions shall be resolved through an election.  Such election shall be conducted in the manner deemed appropriate by the Leadership Committee (i.e., by regular mail, electronic mail, by ballot at a Section Meeting, etc.).  The nominee with a plurality of the votes of the Members shall be declared Society Policies.

Send additional nominations to be received by 6 February 2012 to

Mr. Dakshina K. Murthy
Nominating Committee Chair

282 Province Line Rd
Wrightstown, NJ 08562-2207
dmurthy@njtransit.com