Auditing Experience

Jim has over fifteen years of "hands-on" quality auditing, quality system implementation and training experience. He has helped over 100 companies with, ISO 9000, QS-9000, ISO 14001, GMP and QSR quality systems auditing and implementation projects and is considered an international expert on Cost of Quality (COQ) implementation and other Quality system measurement techniques. Jim is qualified to perform actual RAB accredited ISO 9000 & QS-9000 registration assessments and award ISO certificates for third party ISO 9000 Registrars.

Depth of Quality Related Experience

• General Motors Corporation; Automotive manufacturing experience & Quality management responsibilities

• Texas Instruments; Manufacturing & service experience with Quality reporting responsibilities

• Voice Message Exchange; Telecommunications design, manufacturing & Quality auditing responsibility

• Ericsson Network Systems; Manufacturing, service & Quality experience for international electronics firm

• Brunswick Defense Systems: Military manufacturing & service quality reporting responsibilities

• The Carman Group - Brewer & Associates; Taught over 100 seminars on Quality implementation

• The Harrington Group; Certified instructor on all ISO software (Corrective Action, AuditMaster)

• College Teaching; On faculty at Daytona Beach Community College (ISO 9000, technical courses)

Certifications

• Quality Systems Lead Auditor (QS-LA) by the Registrar Accreditation Board, Certificate #Q4441

• AIAG QS-9000 Certified Registrar Lead Auditor. Renewed '2000.

• Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) by the American Society for Quality (ASQ)

• Certified Quality Manager (CQM) by the American Society for Quality (ASQ)

• Florida Sterling Award Examiner, appointed by the State of Florida (Serving as assessor using Malcolm Baldridge criteria equivalent for service & manufacturing firms)

• Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) by Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

• Certified Production & Inventory Control Manager (CPIM) by the American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS)