The ASQ North East Quality Council has established a Speakers Bureau to provide a resource for finding speakers for ASQ Meetings, or other events. Speakers enlisting have tentatively volunteered to speak at ASQ dinner meetings within the NEQC area, at no fee (Travel and lodging expenses to be negotiated with sponsoring section.) The sponsoring section is encouraged to review the speaker’s background, proposed topic information, experience, and other information and to work out expense arrangements before they finalize the engagement.

To arrange with the speaker, simply contact him using the contact information. Please do not contact NEQC.

If you have experience speaking on quality related topics and wish to have your information added to the list, you may contact Carol Beauchesne at cbeauch@essilorusa.com for instructions. The same applies to those who are listed and wish to update their information, or those listed who wish to be removed.

Contact Information	Expertise / Topics
John Allen John Allen, LLC PO Box 7 Rye, NH 03870 Phone: 603-436-4495 Web: www.johnallenllc.com	John Allen is a worldwide expert in solving complex technical problems. He uses common principles of engineering and physics to form the foundation of this proven approach for improving manufacturing operations in the context of product performance, durability and reliability.
Steven F. Hodlin VP, Business Excellence,DST Output 2000 Crown Colony Drive Quincy, MA 02169 Phone: (617) 483-8729 E-mail: sfhodlin@dstoutput.com Web: www.dstoutput.com	Steve Hodlin is Vice President of Business Excellence at DST Output, where he is responsible for leading the enterprise's business excellence and six sigma initiatives. His primary focus is on quality improvement, and operational effectiveness and efficiencies. He has combined the tools of six sigma with lean thinking to effect continuous improvements, including leading transaction processing and customer service phone groups to "best-in-class" status, as measured by recognized industry audit organizations.
Jack Reardon Senior consultant,Quality & Productivity Solutions, Inc. 1 Sunny Hill Drive Oxford, MA 01540 Phone: (508) 987-3800 E-mail: jackr@qpsinc.com Web: www.qpsinc.com	Topics: Six Sigma Tools Lean Tools Quality Manageemnt system Hands on Workshops on quality and six sigma Tools Process Mapping
Dan O'Leary President Ombu Enterprises, LLC 3 Forest Ave. Swanzey, NH 03446 Phone: 603-209-0600 E-mail: dan_judie@msn.com	I focus on Operational Excellence in manufacturing. Among the topics are Lean, Six Sigma, ISO 9000, Medical Devices, MRP/ERP, Supply Chain, Safety, Reliability, and Warranty Management. I apply statistics and operations analysis for improvement.
Azary, Joseph, President Azary Technologies LLC 543 Long Hill Avenue Shelton, CT 06484 Phone: 203-944-9320 E-mail: info@azarytech.com Web: www.azarytech.com	1. Medical Device Quality 2. ISO 13485 3. FDA regulations
Frost, R. George Frost Quality Resource Group 629 Plank Road, Box 203 Clifton Park, NY 12065 Phone: (518) 371-4530 E-mail: gfrost1@nycap.rr.com	I specialize in ISO 9001:2000 topics, and especially the Eight Quality Management Principles. I use material from my monthly column for the Hudson-Mohawk newsletter called Quality Matters© where I often apply quality principles to one’s personal life.
Holmes, Don, President Stochos Incorporated Schenectady, N.Y. 12305 E-mail: dsholmes@stochos.com Web: www.stochos.com	Specalties: Training and Consulting in Basic and Advanced SPC Data mining and analysis, ProActive Process Improvement/Automated EVOP
Liebesman, Sandford Sandford Quality Consulting LLC 69 Pippins Way Morristown, NJ 07960 Phone: (973) 898 0082 E-mail: sandfordl@msn.com	I specialize in ISO 9001 & TL 9000, especially Value-added Auditing and The Process Approach. I use material from my TL book and published articles.
Parikh, Tushar Vice President Gulton Inc. 212 Durham Avenue Metuchen, NJ 08840 Phone: 732-548-6500 ext. 23 Fax: 732-548-6781 E-mail: tparikh@gulton.com	1. Statistical Approach 2. Design of Experiments 3. Six Sigma 4. Cycle Time Reduction 5. Process Capability Study 6. Reliability Growth Model 7. Highly Accelerated Life Test & Highly Accelerated Stress Screening
Patel, Jay P., Principal Consultant Quality & Productivity Solutions, Inc. 1 Sunny Hill Oxford, MA 01540 Phone: 508-987-3800 E-mail: jayp@qpsinc.com Web: www.qpsinc.com	1. ISO 9001; 2000 (Fast Track implementation of ISO 9001:2000 2. Lean & Six Sigma 3. Managing Quality for 21st Century 4. Process Mapping 5. Project management
Schultz, Nancy, Principal Nancy Schultz Consulting Inc. 39 Engel Road Old Chatham, NY 12136 Phone: 518-794-0768 E-mail: nancy@nancyschultzconsulting.com	1. Value Stream Mapping 2. Business process reengineering for IT projects 3. Business process reengineering for organizational restructuring 4. B-2-B order fulfillment
Nicholas L. Squeglia PE, Principal N. L. Squeglia and Associates 27 Essex Hills Drive Essex, CT 06426 Phone: 860-767-1784 E-mail: nsqueglia@snet.net	1. Certified six sigma black belt by ASQ 2. Author, c=0 sampling 3. Training 4. One hour presentations, c=0 sampling plans 5. Experimental designs without math 6. Myths/contradictions of six sigma
Steer, Lesley M., Founder and President Connect Coaching and Consulting 31 Rolf Drive Danbury, CT, 06810 Phone: 203 241 9948 E-mail: lsteer@for-connect.com	I speak on the concept and practice of corporate and individual coaching in the context of meeting business and personal goals, and on the role and value of a coach and how coaching is being increasingly used and integrated into corporate life.
George Zeliger, PhD Environmental Engineer Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection One Winter Street, 4th Floor Boston, MA 02108 Phone: 617 292 5637 E-mail: gregilez@gmail.com	Graphical and numerical Pareto tools for process analysis and progress monitoring. Methods of optimization of technological processes performance and product quality. Statistical foundations of sampling inspection.
Tim King Senior Partner Tupelo Group, LLC 1 Mill Street Suite 200 Burlington, VT 05401 Phone: 802 865 2700 E-mail: timking@tupelogroup.com	Presentation Topics: 1. Continuous Quality Improvement Teams 2. Baldrige Criteria 3. Establishing a Quality Culture Tim is an ASQ CQMgr and administers Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and serves on the 2006 Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award.
Paula Esty Senior Environmental Systems Specialist Capaccio Environmental Engineering, Inc. 293 Boston Post Road West Marlborough, MA 01752 Phone: 508-970-0033 x 28 E-mail: pesty@capaccio.com Website: www.iso14000.com                  www.capaccio.com	Expertise and Topics CAPACCIO focuses on our strengths: experience, use of practical solutions, and commitment to our clients; CAPACCIO' s mission is to “Help Industry And The Environment Prosper”. Our topics include: - Product Environmental Compliance (Global WEEE & RoHS) - Training: ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, and System Integration - Integration of Quality (QMS) with ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 - EMS & HSMS Outsourcing - Hazardous Waste Management - Environmental Regulatory Assistance
Sandford Liebesman, Ph.D. 69 Pippins Way Morristown, NJ 07960 Phone: 973-898-0082 E-mail: sandfordl@msn.com	Quality Management ISO 9001:2000 compliance and auditing TL 9000 Compliance and auditing Process auditing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and integration with quality management Integrated management systems
Raymond, Tony President, New Harbor Technical Management, LLC 855 Turnpike St. North Andover, Massachusetts 01841 United States of America Phone: 978-965-2111 E-mail: tonyraymond@newharbortechmgt.com	Speaking Topics include: Software Quality Assurance – Planning, Metrics & Management Software Defect Management Overview of the Software Development and Test Process Pragmatic Peer reviews Gathering, Documenting and Validating Requirements Principles of Software Testing and Managing the Test Process Software Project Management Software Risk Management Software Process Improvement – Overview of CMMI, ISO 9000 and 6 Sigma Managing the software project “End Game
Steven R. Rakitin President Software Quality Consulting, Inc. Upton, MA Phone: 508.529.4282 E-mail: steve@swqual.com Web: www.swqual.com	Areas of expertise include: software development, software verification & validation, testing, auditing, medical device software requirements, software reliability, root cause analysis, software project management, estimating and scheduling, project retrospectives, peer reviews, etc.
James August, CQA Director of Quality Management Tape Products Division American Biltrite Inc. 105 Whittendale Drive Moorestown, NJ 08057 Phone: 856-778-0700 E-mail: August@ABITAPE.COM	Topics include quality management issues with emphasis on people and their responsibilities to make the systems work. Jim’s approach often integrates significant Baldrige principles aimed at performance excellence For example: Creative thinking Change management Process auditing Simple statistics
Gabriele (Gabe) Crognale, PE, MCG & Associates E-mail: mriso14k@yahoo.com	Expertise and Topics ISO 14001 implementation and auditing Environmental and health & safety workplace issues Human Resources issues, such as finding/retaining good help Environmental/Health & Safety Regulatory Technical Expertise, RCRA, TSCA, OSHA
Nihar Senapati GE Healthcaret 15 Pelham Street North Billerica, MA 01862 Phone: 978 362 1863 Cell: 781 640 6189 E-mail: Niharworks@yahoo.com	Nihar’s expertise lies in developing and managing Design for Reliability (DFR) programs, improving system and component level hardware and software reliability and implementing product, process and service delivery quality initiatives through application of TQM, Lean and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodologies.
Eli Baron Philips Medical System E-mail: ebaron@rcn.com or               eli.baron@philips.com Phone: 781-686-3093	Topics of expertise/interest: DFSS, Monte-Carlo Simulation, Advanced Statistics, VOC Analysis
Andy Novotny InterPro Group, LLC Phon:e 860-229-9445 E-mail: an@interprogrp.com	Topics include Lean Supply Chain. How to speed up the flow of information, materials, and cash between operations and businesses in the supply chain.
Vladimir V. Riabov, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Division of Sciences Rivier College 420 S. Main Street Nashua, NH 03060-5086 Phone : 603-897-8613 E-mail: vriabov@rivier.edu(preferable)	Topics include: * Networking Technologies & Applications (including Storage Area Network [SAN], Simple Mail Transfer Protocol [SMTP], Wireless Networks [LANs and MANs], Fibre Channel, Ethernet, etc.); * Software Design Strategies (including Object-Oriented System Design with UML tools); * System Simulation and Modeling (including Network Design with OPNET simulation software); * Complexity Code Studies (based on the McCabe and Halstead metrics); * Networking Software Test Strategies (based on the Structured Testing Methodology offered by McCabe); * Computational Algorithms
David Levy Director, ASQ Region 3 Day phone: 212 672 4068 Home office : 914 736 1021 Cell: 914 772 8512 E-mail: david@levyquality.com	ASQ – The state of the society facilitate Stakeholders Dialogs or speak on what’s happening with ASQ
Kay Kendall Director and Master Black Belt Sun Microsystems, Inc. Phone: (978) 935-9485 Mobile: (978) 930-4545 E-mail: kay.kendall@sun.com or keithjkayk@aol.com	Topics: Baldrige -- both national and the state and local programs -- all aspects Six Sigma and Lean Change management What's happening with ASQ? (since I'm on my second term as a National Director on the Board) Root cause analysis Benchmarking Balanced scorecard Customer-focused quality improvement Talking about quality with executives
Wally Hauck Supertraining, Inc. 167 Cherry Street #404 Milford, CT 06460 Phone 203-874-8484 Fax 203-874-8093 E-mail: wally@wallyhauck.com	Trust or Performance Appraisals - Choose One: This talk challenges the current thinking about performance appraisals and how they are used. In this session, participants learn: How performance appraisals work against trust, cooperation, creativity and quality improvement; How to begin to replace performance appraisals with policies that enhance intrinsic motivation and improved productivity; The reasons why performance appraisals continue to be used in spite of the clear challenges.
James P. Neelnakavil Professor of International Business Zarb School of Business Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11549 Phone: 516 463 5336 E-mail: mktjpn@hofstra.edu	James’s specialty is strategy, and the influence of innovation and improvements on corporate performance. He deals with some of the techniques that are applicable in developing innovation procedures.
Mark Hehl Hehl & Associates 9 Union Square #246 Southbury, CT 06488 203 982 6231 www.hehlassociates.com	Topics: -Quality Improvement/Lean/Six Sigma in Latin America -Quality Improvement/Lean/Six Sigma in Asia/China -The Human Side of Auditing -Six Sigma Customer Service Enhancement-A Real Life Example -Ho Man Kai's Fourteen Tips for Implementing Improvement into Chinese Organizations -Managing Teams for Problem Solving -Selecting Suppliers Based Upon Total Cost Rather Than Price Alone -The Hidden Costs of Outsourcing -Managing Outsourcing Projects for Success