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ASQ 702 Executive Board
- 2009/2010
Chairman and
Programs Chair Kanthassamy (Kandy)
Senthilmaran:
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Kandy is a Senior Member with ASQ
and is currently working as Director
Process Center of Excellence with CSC Covansys
Corp. He is a ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt,
PMP, CSQA, CIISA and ITIL foundations certified
with ten plus years of experience in developing,
sustaining and improving organizational process
performance using many quality standards, models,
methodologies, frameworks such as ISO, CMM, PCMM,
CMMi,COBIT,ITIL,BS7799 among others. Kandy also
doubles up as the Region 7 Councilor for Software
Division and planning committee of Six Sigma
discussion group. He is also part of the regional
judge panel for ASQ Team Excellence Award
Process, 2007 and 2008 and Standing Review Board
(SRB) of ASQs Quality Press. He is also
active with Quality Assurance Institute, Project
Management Institute and Software Process
Improvement Networks (SPIN).
Kandy has earlier been Program Chair and Chief
Proctor for the section.
Kandy is happily married, lives with his wife and son
at Montclair. His favorite time passes are
internet browsing, gardening and getting in touch
with friends.He can be reached at 517-290-6663 - chair@asq702.org or programs@asq702.org
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Secretary - Nal
Lokeshwar
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Nal Lokeshwar is the treasurer for
the ASQ section 702 for the year 2008-2009. He is
a senior member of ASQ and is a member of the
section since 1996. He is an ASQ certified
quality manager, reliability engineer, quality
engineer and quality auditor. He holds a MSQA
degree from Cal State Dominguez Hills. Currently
he works as a senior manufacturing engineer at
Everett Charles Technologies in the assembly of
miniature probes for semiconductor and electronic
testing industries. He can be reached at
(Work) 909 625 9326 and (Res) 909 348 7027 - secretary@asq702.org
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Treasurer and Events Registration Chair- Jean
Flores:
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Jean is currently Section 702
Treasurer and Events Registration Chair, having
previously served as SMP Committee Chair, Secretary,
Section Chair, and Treasurer. She is a ASQ
Certified CQE and CQA.
She is currently employed as Quality Systems
Manager for Ball Corp, Plastic Container
Division, in Chino, CA. since January 08.
Previous to that, she was Director of Quality for
Garcia Plastic Molding (previously named
Andercraft Products), a custom injection molding
company, in Rancho Cucamonga for 14 years, and
was a Quality Engineer with Baxter Healthcare for
10 years in various positions of increasing
responsibility.
On a personal note, She lives in Glendora and
have a 26 year old son, 3 dogs, and 5 desert
tortoises.
She can be reached at -
treasurer@asq702.org or events@asq702.org
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Vice Chair Programs - Ruchika Raval
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Ruchika Raval is President of Global Biopharmaceutical Regulations (GBR Inc). As a Principal for her consulting practice Ms. Raval brings 23 years industry experience including research, audit, planning, and regulatory compliance and dossier preparation for US, EU and emerging markets.
Ruchika holds a Masters in Bacteriology, Certification as a Lead Auditor from RABQSA and RAC certification for US-FDA and EU regulations. In her free time she volunteers at a homeless shelter and is training for her first marathon.
She can be reached at
510-384-2885 - programs@asq702.org
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Audit, Nomination and Education
Chair - CG Mistry
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C.G.Mistry is an ASQ member for 16
years. He has been a board member for last four
years and is the immediate past chair.
ASQ certifications:
Certified Quality Manager Organizational
Excellence
Certified Quality Engineer
Certified Quality Auditor and Certified Six Sigma
Black Belt. And
Certified Quality Auditor
CG has Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical
Engineering, Masters In Business Management and
Master of Science in Quality Assurance
He can be reached at -
audit@asq702.org or education@asq702.org
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Newsletters Chair -
Larry Phelan
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Larry Phelan is a senior member of
the ASQ and a member of the Biomedical Division
and the Quality Management Division. He has over
thirty years experience in the medical device
industry and prior to that he worked in the
geophysical instrumentation and military
instrumentation industries. He holds a BS in
Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly Pomona and a
MBA from the University of Pepperdine. He
obtained a certification in Total Quality
Management from U.C.L.A. and Certified Quality
Engineer and Certified Mechanical Inspector from
the American Society for Quality. He is employed
by Beckman Coulter, Inc. in quality systems and
training. He is the sections newsletter
chair. He can be reached at -
newsletter@asq702.org |
Chair Elect and Vice Chair - Dwane Nesser
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Dwane is a senior member of ASQ and
has been a member since 1988. He is an ASQ
Certified Quality Engineer. Dwane graduated from
the University of Kansas with a B.S. degree in
Chemical Engineering. He has worked in the
manufacturing industry with makers of Food, Drug
and Cosmetics throughout his career and is
currently employed as a Compliance Manager for
Universal Packaging Systems, Inc.He can be reached at -
vicechair@asq702.org |
Membership Chair
Bennett Chin
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Bennett Chin is the co-membership
chair for ASQ 702. He is a member of ASQ since
2001 and currently a senior member. He has held
various executive board positions, Membership
Chair, Secretary, Vice-Chair, and Photographer,
with ASQ 702 since 2002. He is also a member of
the Society of Plastic Engineer since 1995.
Bennett is the Technical & Quality Assurance
Manager at Techmer PM that designs and produces
additives and color concentrates for the plastics
industry. He has a BS degree in Chemical
Engineering and minor in Material Science and
Engineering.He can be reached at -
membership@asq702.org |
Certification/Cheif Proctor and Co-membership Chair
Ravi Rathinam
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Ravi is a new entry to the
sections executive board as Co-Membership
Chair. He has around 14 years of experience is
various aspects of Quality and is currently
working as Manager Quality for CSC Covansys Corp.
Ravi is happily married with two kids and lives
in Pasadena. He loves making south Indian
delicacies and savoring it with his family.
Ravi is also a budding entrepreneur with a new
but good start with his Green House products LLC
marketing nature care products.He can be reached at -
certification@asq702.org or examin@asq702.org |
Recertification and Bio Medical Discussion Group Co-ordinator - Marina Guevrekian
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Marina Guevrekian is a Regulatory
Affairs Specialist at Staar surgical Company, an
Ophthalmic Device company in Monrovia,
California.
She has been a Senior Scientist at Merck-Sharp
& Dohm & Ipsen Biotech Pharmaceutical
companys in Paris, France before moving to
the USA in 2000. She has been working as a Senior
Scientist and Regulatory advisor/specialist in
Environmental, Health Care & Medical Device
companys since.
She holds a Ph. D. applied to the Environmental
and Pharmaceutical industries and is an ASQ/CQA.
She is a member of ASQ since 2005, Board member
of section 702 and Event coordinator for SCDG
Biomedical division.She can be reached at -
recert@asq702.org |
Job Placement, Arrangement Chair and Food, Drug and Cosmetics Division Co-ordinator - Lewie Casey
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Lewie is new to the San Gabriel Valley Section board, and is a relatively new member of ASQ, having joined in August 2008. Lewie is Event Coordinator/Section Liaison for the SCDG Food, Drug and Cosmetic Division. Lewie is a researcher and recruiter for the Medical Device, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industries and has been with Med Exec International since 2005. Lewie specializes in Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance placements for both Contract and Permanent positions.
Lewie is originally from Florida and moved to Los Angeles in 1995. Lewie now lives in Altadena with his wife and 8 month old daughter.
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Executive Board Member Akhilesh
Gulati
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Principal - PIVOT Management
Consultants
Executive Board Positions Held or Helped With
During The Past Year:
Newsletter Editor & Layout / Publisher /
Printer / Section Mailings / Guest Speaker /
Mentor
ASQ member since 1991
ASQ 702 member since 1993
Involved with ASQ 702 E-board since 1993
(Continuing from last year)
Senior Member since 1997
Past chair and senior member of ASQ.
Principal with PIVOT, a consulting firm
specializing in implementing Change Strategies,
Lean Manufacturing, and ISO 9000 quality systems.
Provides training for Lean and Six Sigma. |
Executive Board
Member - Larry Bartkus
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Joined E-board in July xxxx
Number of years in ASQ - 24 (to update)
Number of years in ASQ 702 - 20 (to update)
ASQ Senior Member since 1986.
Previous ASQ 702 Board positions held in the past
- Chairman (1988-89), Chair Elect(1987-88),
Secretary(1986-87), Program and Professional
Relations Chair(1985-86) and a few other years,
CQE Refresher Course Coordinator (3 or 4 times) ,
Member Booster Chair, Conference 0702
Representative for Orange County ASQ Conference,
etc
ASQ Certifications currently holding - CQE (since
1986)
I joined ASQ in April 1979 in New Jersey moved to
California in December 1981 and joined 0702 in
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Regional Director
- Elias Monreal
Deputy Regional
Director - Rosemarie Chistopher
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Rosemarie Christopher, the President
and Chief Executive Officer of Med Exec
International and RxResearch Staffing, has spent
more than 20 years in the recruitment and
placement of technical professionals for full
time and contract staff positions.
Ms. Christopher is author of What Employers
Hire, a series of articles and interactive
seminars that reveal the strategies and
techniques for successful career development and
advancement.
Ms. Christopher also serves as member of the
Board of Directors of Orange County Regulatory
Affairs Discussion Group (OCRA), a leading
regional association serving the pharmaceutical,
life science and biotechnology industries, and
the American Society for Quality (ASQ). She is a
Board Member for the USC School of Pharmacy and
an active member of Regulatory Affairs
Professional Society (RAPS), Drug Information
Association (DIA) and the Association of Clinical
Research Professionals (ACRP).
A native of Easton, Pennsylvania, Ms. Christopher
is a Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society member with a
Masters of Arts degree from the University of
Southern California, Annenberg School for
Communications, and Bachelor of Arts degree from
the University of California, Los Angeles. Ms.
Christopher resides in Los Angeles, California
with husband Dr. Thom Mason, Chair of the Jazz
Department in the USC Thornton School of Music. |
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