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 NEWS
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November
2008
Message from the Editor
Dear ASQ Canada Edmonton Section Member,
The
‘World
Quality Day’ is celebrated each year on second Thursday
of November. World
Quality Day
is a chance for quality professionals and organizations around the
world to celebrate their achievements and raise awareness of how
quality approaches can make a tangible impact on business.
It provides an excellent opportunity for quality professionals to
share their ideas, celebrate achievements, emphasize on quality
initiatives and spread awareness to both employers and employees
of what quality means to their customers, suppliers and other
stakeholders, and how they could add value. Many Organizations
celebrate this special day through newsletters, staff events, surveys,
celebrations etc.
ASQ
Canada Edmonton section is pleased to invite all the members to join
the “World Quality Day”
celebrations on Thursday, November 13, 2008 (see details on next
page). Please join us in the celebrations, with great food,
professional company, while playing as teams to win exciting prizes…
We extend our sincere thanks to Enbridge for sponsoring this event.
I
would like to share the data we received from our last event on your
valuable feedback and also would like to thank all members,
non-members and guests who contributed their valuable time towards the
success of last event.
Upcoming Event
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Topic:
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Have
Fun As You Learn - Six Sigma, Lean, QMS, SPC, DOE
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Facilitator:
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Allan
Wilson & Puneet Manchanda
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Day:
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Thursday,
November 13, 2008
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Time:
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Registration
at 6.00 PM followed by Dinner and Presentation
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Place:
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Meridian
Banquet / India Garden Restaurant,
76
Avenue – 49 Street, Edmonton
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Cost:
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$10
for ASQ member, $15 for Guest
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Please confirm your presence through e-mail to us by November 11, 2008.
About Facilitators
Allan
Wilson is currently employed as a QMS lead auditor with Enbridge
Pipelines Inc. Allan has an
extensive quality background in quality management and
continuous
improvement. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and Certified Manager
of Quality and Organizational Excellence. Allan currently
volunteers as the Vice Chair of the ASQ Edmonton chapter and as a
part-time quiz master. Allan can be contacted at allwilson@telus.net.
Puneet
Manchanda (PMP, MBA and Six Sigma Green Belt): Puneet is currently
employed with Enbridge Inc. as a Quality Management Professional. He
has experience of Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001). Puneet is
past and current ASQ Edmonton Program Chair for the year 2008-09,
responsible for the planning and implementation of seminars and other
programs that will meet the needs of the current members and guests.
He was also holding the Membership Chair for the year 2007-08. The
contact detail of Puneet: puneetma@hotmail.com
Upcoming Certification Examinations
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Category
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Application deadline
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Examination date
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For
list of exam category, please click on following link
http://www.asq.org/certification
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January
16, 2009
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March
07, 2009
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Section Executives (July 01, 2008 –June 30, 2009)
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ASQ CANADA EDMONTON SECTION INVITES
ADVERTISEMENT FROM RENOWNED COMPANIES TO REACH OUR MEMBERS
THROUGH THIS NEWSLETTER, PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFO.
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MEET OUR LOCAL
MEMBERS
ASQ Edmonton section is currently looking for organizations to
sponsor our upcoming events; the sponsorship includes two
complimentary participants and exposure to meet our members.
Please contact one of the section executives for further
details.
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NEWS
LETTER
September 2008
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Message
from the Chair
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Dear Quality Professionals,
Colleagues and Friends,
It has been a great
pleasure for me to lead this section and once again I am honored to take
this responsibility as Section Chair for the fiscal year 2008 – 09,
and looking forward to have another great year with you.
Wow! We had an awesome year
(2007 – 08) with lot of accomplishments. There were 10 successful
evening events conducted and valuable info were presented by experienced
speakers. We could achieve this due to all of your tremendous support,
ASQ guidance and hard work of member leaders.
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I
extend my sincere thanks to all the speakers for delivering valuable
presentations, member leaders for facilitating the events and section
members for participating, demonstrating profound interest and providing
valuable feedback to us in order to enhance section activities that led us
to meet your expectations.
The
member growth has been increasing, last year we grew by more than 17%...
Recently
we had our Section Management Plan meeting to determine tactic and
strategic planning for the section, the sole purpose of this session was
to focus on increasing member value, retention and satisfaction, a plan is
being formalized and would be released by next month.
On
behalf of our local membership I welcome our new member leaders /
executives for accepting their roles and commitment to support section
activities with an aim to attain higher levels for our section during 2008
– 09 please feel free to contact us for any suggestion / further
information…
As
we move forward, you could expect a new look to our local web site, and
Newsletter. We are going to organize many value adding events during this
year, so stay tuned with section’s current information, your active
participation would be highly appreciated. I am excited and would like to
meet you personally at our evening events…
With
Best Wishes
Akhilesh
Manchanda, P. Eng.
ASQ Canada Edmonton Section Chair
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Upcoming Event
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Topic:
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Professional Networking Skills – For Effective Results
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Presented by:
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John B Rogers, PMP
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Day:
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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Time:
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Registration at 6.00 PM followed by Dinner and Presentation
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Place:
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Meridian Banquet / India Garden Restaurant,
76 Avenue – 49 Street, Edmonton
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Cost:
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$15 for ASQ members, $20 for Guest
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Please
confirm your presence through e-mail to us by September 21, 2008.
About Speaker
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John has been involved in
the information technology field for 40 years with over 35 years of
involvement in managing projects. He led his first million plus project
in 1974 and has since become a student of project management approaches
and practices. Over the years, John as been active in the development
and implementation of many design and delivery methodologies. While
working full time as a Project Manager he has been involved in
instructing in Project Management since 1988 including the delivery of
courses in the NAIT Project Management Certificate program and a number
of U of A extension programs.
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John’s interests include
seeing the further advancement of the PM profession. Mr Rogers has been
involved with PMI since 1999 and was the VP Finance for the Northern
Alberta Chapter of PMI. To maintain currency in the field John is
currently taking an MBA in Project Management through Athabasca
University.
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Presentation Overview
One
definition of Networking is "Expanding one's social network or
sphere of influence by initiating mutually advantageous new
relationships with people." and yet another presents
"Connecting with people of like interests for the purpose of
uncovering opportunities, identifying landmines and learning of
best practices". People are the life's
blood of all projects and organizations and our ability to connect with
people is a critical part of our overall success. Given that one of the
major concerns of Project Managers is that they have all the
accountability but no authority, the power to influence can become
crucial to success. Networking concepts will be presented to
assist in the development of the individuals influence with a group of
stakeholders built upon a proper set of values and principles that will
create a long lasting network of allies.
Welcome to New Members
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As
we continue to grow, we are pleased to inform that eight
new members in July 2008 and five new members in August
2008 have joined ASQ Canada Section 0410. On behalf of Edmonton
Section, the executives committee welcomes all of these new
members and offers a complementary invitation to one of our
evening events.
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Upcoming Certification Examinations
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Category
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Last date of application
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Examination date
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For
list of exam category, please click on following link
http://www.asq.org/certification
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Sept.
3, 2008
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October
18, 2008
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October
10, 2008
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December
6, 2008
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Newly Certified Professionals
ASQ
Canada Edmonton Section Executives congratulate the following quality
professionals who were successful in ASQ Certification exams held in
June 2008.
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Name
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Category
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Scott
D Boker
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CQA
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Dennis
E Molnar
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CQA
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Daily
Morales
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CQIA
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Section Executives (July 01, 2008 –June
30, 2009)
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ASQ CANADA EDMONTON SECTION INVITES
ADVERTISEMENT FROM RENOWNED COMPANIES TO REACH OUR MEMBERS THROUGH
THIS NEWSLETTER, PLEASE CONTACT US OR VISIT www.asqedmonton.org FOR MORE INFO.
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June
Dinner Event: New Developments in
Standardized
Supporting Systems and Integration with Professor Stanislav
Karapetrovik & ASQ Edmonton Section's Annual General Meeting...
We were pleased to have
Professor Stan Karapetrovik, Professor in Mechanical Engineering at
the University of Alberta, speak on the topic of New Developments in
Standardized Supporting Systems and integration.
Professor Karapetrovik will speak on new
developments in the ISO 10000 Series: Standards and
Guidelines on Auditing, Calibration, Configuration Control, Quality
Manuals and Statistical Methods. He
will discuss the integration of these
standards with management systems and the future direction of the
development and use of quality management standards.
Topic: New
Developments in ISO 10000 Standards
When:
Thursday June 19, 2008: 6
to 8 pm
Where:
Holiday Inn Conference Center,
4520 76 Avenue NW, Edmonton, AB, T6B
0A5, (780) 468-5400
Cost:
$10 for ASQ Members, $15 for Guests
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Stanislav
Karapetrovic is
a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of
Alberta, where he leads the Auditing and Integration of
Management Systems Research Laboratory. Stan's widely published
and cited research has been funded by government agencies and
corporations
alike. He is often
invited to deliver keynote speeches at overseas conferences, and
has received a number of international awards for his
research
publications. Stan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
quality and engineering management, and has supervised more than
twenty masters and
doctoral students in quality assurance and management. A
registered professional engineer, Stan is also actively
working on
international standardization in quality management. Currently,
he is the Customer Satisfaction Liaison in the Supporting
Technologies
Subcommittee ISO/TC176/SC3. Some of the ISO standards and the
related documents that Stan has been involved in developing
include the Customer Satisfaction Complaint System series ISO
10001, ISO 10002
and ISO 10003, as
well as the ISO Handbook on the Integrated Use of Management
System Standards. More information on Stan's work is provided
at: www.engineering.ualberta.ca/quality
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Please
inform Allan Wilson at allwilson@telus.net
or any executive of your willingness to attend.
May Event: Lean:
Execution, Execution, Execution!
with Anurag Panday |
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Edmonton Section 