June 2010 General Meeting  

on

Thursday, June 17, 2010

at

Sir Walter Raleigh Restaurant

6323 Greenbelt Rd, Berwyn Heights, MD 20740

Registration & Networking: 6:00 p.m

General Announcements: 8:00 p.m      

Program: 8:15 p.m

Dinner: 7:00 p.m  

Adjourn: 9:15 p.m

The cost is $15.00 for members and students or $25.00 for non-members.

Please register through our website at General Meeting Registration - June 2010 or by contacting Mrs. Michele Withnell at (301) 461-2649 or Arrangements@asq509.org. 

Important Notice: ASQ Section 509 is responsible for the meals for all “No shows” at The Sir Walter Raleigh Inn Restaurant.  Please help us control our losses by notifying our Arrangements Chair Mrs. Michele Withnell at Arrangements@asq.org to cancel your dinner prior to the event.  Thank you for your cooperation!

Program Summary:

Products and services are being exchanged in increasingly global markets.  Product quality in Asia, Europe, Africa and other countries in the Americas can and do have a profound effect on quality of products and quality of life here.  Recent events have shown the truth of this statement beyond question,  Mr. Withnell will give a brief presentation on some of the recent events and ASQ’s current globalization policies and initiatives, and lead a discussion on what our future steps as quality professionals should be.

Speaker Biography:  Geoffrey Withnell

Geoff Withnell is currently as Process Improvement Coach for Dynamics Research Corporation, working in a Department of Defense assignment.  He started in the Quality profession forty years ago in March 1969 as a document control and configuration management clerk in USMC aviation.  Along the way, he has been an inspector, quality auditor, quality supervisor, quality engineer, quality manager, master black belt, consultant, and at one company, held the position of “our quality guy”.  Mr. Withnell has worked in the defense, aerospace, biomedical, manufacturing and service industries, and has served on the boards of five ASQ sections.  He is the moderator for the ASQ Quality Management and Government Divisions discussion boards, serves on the Society’s liaison committee to the Project management Institute, and is Publicity Chair for Section 509.  He is a Senior Member of ASQ and holds certifications from ASQ as Quality Engineer; Quality Auditor; Six Sigma Black Belt; Manager, Quality/Organizational Excellence, Software Quality Engineer, and Pharmaceutical GMP Practitioner.  He is also certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute. He has delivered papers to the American Association of Blood Banks, and the Israel Quality Society on Quality Management, and numerous Section and SIG meetings

DIRECTIONS TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH INN

Take I-495 Exit 23 to MD 201/Kenilworth Ave South towards Bladensburg/Greenbelt

Take the Exit toward MD 193/Greenbelt Rd

Make a sharp left at Edmonston Rd

Turn right at Greenbelt Rd

Make a u-turn at 63rd Avenue

Restaurant is on the right.