Speakers
Bio: Randy
has 25 years experience in the quality profession. He
is currently President and CEO off the SBGi Institute,
LLC. Prior to this role he was a Senior Vicce President
at Bank of America serving as the Strategic Measurement
Executive for the Sales, Service and Execution group in
Bank of America’s consumer banking organization.
He has previously served as the Six Sigma Master Black
Belt for the LA Division of Bank of America, the Division
Business Manager for the same division, CFO for the Performance
Management Group at Countrywide, the VP- Six Sigma at
IndyMac Bank where he had responsibility for their Six
Sigma program, and prior to that he ran a successful consulting
company as a six sigma master black belt and an ISO 9000
lead auditor. Randy has successfully worked with 100’s
of process improvement teams since 1990 and has applied
the tools in the public education environment, in manufacturing
environments, in municipal government, and at the Pentagon.
He gained professional experience in the medical equipment
manufacturing business and in semiconductor equipment
and materials manufacturing. His industrial background
has included the roles of QA Laboratory Supervisor, QC
Inspector Supervisor, Quality Engineer, Quality/Reliability
Manager, and Loaned Executive for Quality.
He recently
resigned from the Board of Directors of the Californoa
Council for Excellence where he has served for the past
two years as the treasurer. He was also a member of the
Board of Directors for the Caouncil for Continuous IMprovemnent
in Silicon VZalley, an elected Truste of the Lakeside
Elementary School District and the President of the Board
of the Metroploitan Education District Foundation.
Randy is a
Senior Member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ)
and has qualified for recognition by the Society as a
Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Reliability
Engineer (CRE) and Certified Quality Auditor (CQA). He
is a trained Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award examiner,
an examiner for the Federal Quality Institute's Presidential
Quality Awards and an ISO 9000 Lead Assessor. Randy’s
training experience includes Six Sigma, DFM 6 Sigma, Benchmarking,
Process Reengineering, Balanced Scorecard, SPC, ISO9000
and a wide variety of quality tool courses.
Randy received
a BS in Biology from Purdue University, an MS in Quality
Assurance from San Jose State University and a graduate
diploma from the Naval War College, College of Command
and Staff, Newport, RI. He has had and continues to pursue
extensive training in the quality profession. Randy recently
retired as a Commander in the Navy Reserve and has served
as an adjunct faculty member at Loyola University, New
Orleans, the University of Phoenix and National University.
E-mail:randy.canfield@SBGicorp.com
Directive
2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
of January 23, 2003 on the restriction of the use of certain
hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment
went into effect as of July 1, 2006. Are you doing enough?
Can you sustain compliance in the long Run? Can you afford
the cost? Are your efforts designed to ensure that a defensible
legal position has been established should your company
be required to justify putting products on the market
in Europe? Do you believe that testing a few samples of
products is sufficient to demonstrate due diligence in
an international court of law? Do you rely on Certificates
of Compliance from your suppliers that state they fully
comply with all requirements? If so, why would you believe
the C of C’s accurate? Are you ready to demonstrate
compliance to the Chinese version of RoHS? How about California’s
or Korea’s? They all have pending statutory requirements.
Do
any of these questions cause a cold chill to run down
your spine? If so, you will be happy to learn that there
is a more logical, and defensible approach to ensuring
that your company has done everything possible to ensure
Compliance to RoHS associated with offering products for
sale in the European Union post July 1, 2006 (the date
compliance to RoHS became enforceable by the EU). The
International Electrotechnical Commision for Quality (IECQ)
has released IECQ QC08000 Hazardous Substance
Process Management, a technical specification
that augments your current Quality Management System (if
you are compliant to ISO 9001 or any of the similar standards).
Companies can demonstrate a significantly sustained approach
to compliance with the current (and any future) hazardous
substance regulatory requirements by creating processes
that comply with this Internationally recognized specification,
then undergoing a third party certification assessment
that will result in accreditation from IECQ.
Thousands
have already been trained in Asia and compliance to IECQ
QC08000 Hazardous Substance Process Management
may soon be mandated by your customers.
Learn
more at one of two upcoming public seminars offered by
the training organization authorized by IECQ to develop
and deliver training that certifies assessors to perform
Compliance evaluations against the IECQ QC08000
Hazardous Substance Process Management specification.
SBGi Institute, LLC a member of The Salot Bradley Group
International family of companies is conducting classes:
on November 5-8 in the San Francisco/Silicon
Valley area and on Dec 7-9 in the Los Angeles
area.
Visit
the SBGi website to learn more and to register for either
of these classes. www.sbgicorp.com
Don’t delay, classes are sure to sell out. Bring
your suppliers along!
When
- Wednesday, 03/21/07
**NEW Location**
- Biosense Webster - 15715 Arrow
Highway, Irwindale, 91706
RSVP by
sending an email to:s.soukup@verizon.net
You
will need to enter through the front lobby facing Arrow
Highway and sign the visitor’s roster. Then you
can proceed up the stairs in the main lobby to the large
Training Rooms (1A and 1B). Any questions - Ask for Larry
Bartkus or call his cell phone: (909)
717-5141.
Walk-ins
are welcome. Please bring a co-worker/guest/family member
