ASQ Section 0511 January 2025 Meeting Announcement
Wednesday, 08 January 2025
2025 Section Chair's Report
Presented by Ken Rapuano, ASQ Section 0511 Past Chair
Short Description:
Ken Rapuano, Section 0511 Chair for 2023/2024, will present his Section Chair's Report to brief the participants on the State of the Section. This is the fourth Section Chair's Report that follows the precedent of the first such Report of January 2022. This includes the Section's strategy, priorities, and a walk-through of initiatives that the Section has carried out.
Jeff Parnes, Section 0511 Chair for 2025, will conclude with his vision for the year ahead.
Program Content:
Section Business. The Section Business part of the meeting will likely be shorter than usual as a number of Section Business items will be touched upon in the Section Chair's Report.
Section Chair's Report. After that, the Past Chair will present his Report on the State of the Section.
- This Report is to inform you what the Section Volunteers work on, what they accomplished last year, and where the Section is going.
- This Report draws on its precedent of the January 2022 Section Chair's Report delivered by the 2022 Section Chair Vladimir Nesterovich and the January 2023 and 2024 Section Chair's Report delivered by the 2023 and 2024 Section Chair Ken Rapuano. We now have the tradition of annual Chair Reports to the Section Members.
- Ken will review the Section's Strategy and Priorities and will walk you through the main initiatives that the Section carries out.
- He will emphasize what has been achieved since the last Chair Report and what has fallen short during this past year.
- He will also describe how the Section's Strategy and Priorities are evolving given what has been achieved.
- Ken and Jeff will share what needs to be done next.
- This Section Chair's Report is your educational opportunity for you to reflect upon:
- In general, what a community of Quality Professionals can do as a group, and
- Specifically, what Section 0511 as the community of Quality Professionals of Northern Virginia does for its members.
- Note: This Section Chair's Report is NOT a call for volunteers, although you are welcome to volunteer based on what you hear.
Speaker Background:
Ken Rapuano is a Senior Chemist at HydroGeoLogic, Inc., a Reston-based environmental firm. He has been an IHMM-Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) since 2010 and an ASQ-Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) since 2015.His expertise includes analytical chemistry, data validation and usability assessments, and health and safety. He also supports database management and risk assessment.
Outside of work, he is still playing Dungeons and Dragons and has been known to take an occasional interest in beer brewing, history, sports, computer games, and cats.
Ken was elected as the ASQ Section 0511 Secretary for 2019-2021, then was elected as the Section's Vice Chair for 2022, and then elected the Section's Chair for 2023-2024. He is currently serving as the Section's Programs Chair for 2025. Ken also generously continues leading the following three (3) initiatives:
- Early in 2022, Ken stepped up additionally to serve as the Section's Compliance Officer.
- He also leads the Quality Matters Reports initiative that has resulted in several reports on Quality Matters Round Tables since they started in 2021.
- In 2022, Ken also assumed the role of the Community Matters Initiative Lead to have the ASQ Divisions presented to the Section members. This resulted in his presentations at the August and September 2022 and May 2023 Section Meetings.
Jeffrey Parnes is currently retired. His product assurance career started 50 years ago when he became a Quality Assurance Trainee for the Defense Contract Administration Services (DCAS).
- As a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) employee, his responsibilities included wood products, computer software, statistics and Defense Supply Center operations.
- In the private sector, Jeff has worked for various firms in the Washington Metropolitan area, including:
- Computer Sciences Corporation as a computer scientist working as a sub for Boeing supporting the Peace Shield Project
- Hughes Training Corporation as a software quality manager and configuration manager on a variety of trainers (V22, LCAC, T45, & RAF F-16)
- Advanced Communications Systems as support for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR)
- Orion Scientific supporting the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
- Planning Research Corporation/Northrop Grumman supporting multiple computer and hardware system deployments
- Electronic Data Systems supporting the Federal Reserve
- Unisys supporting multiple computer system deployments
- ITT as a product assurance manager supporting the FAA's Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADSB) systems deployment
- Maximus supporting nationwide health care systems
- Various contractors (ASM Research, Accenture Federal Systems, CSRA, and others supporting Department of Veterans Affairs system deployments and upgrades
Jeff is currently serving as ASQ Section 0511 Chair. He has been a member of ASQ Section 0511 since its formation in 1983, having joined ASQC in 1979. He has served multiple terms as the section's Treasurer and Chair, and has maintained the ASQ0511 website since before 2007. He is also a board member of the Configuration Management Working Group of Metropolitan Washington.
Reservations:
There is no charge to attend. To register, please use our on line reservation form which can be used up to the day of the meeting. If your plans change, please contact dba25@asq0511.org, and let us know.
Webinar Link / Meeting Instructions
7:00pm — 8:30pm – Section Meeting Information
Joining by a direct link:
Meeting link: https://asq.webex.com/asq/j.php?MTID=md7b51d35a3b8efcb35d04e7efb115ad1
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Web address: https://asq.webex.com/asq
Meeting number: 2556 788 1959
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Joining by phone (you will have to identify yourself by name when you have joined):
Phone number: 1-408-792-6300 Call-in number (US/Canada)
Access code: 2556 788 1959
6:00pm — 7:00pm – Section Leadership Committee meeting
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Meeting number: 2558 731 5440
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Joining by phone (you will have to identify yourself by name when you have joined):
Phone number: 1-408-792-6300 Call-in number (US/Canada)
Access code: 2558 731 5440
Next Meeting:
Sunday, 16 February 2025 — Ranger Outing - River Sea Chocolate Factory, Chantilly, VA. More information to come!
Call for Speakers!!!
Would you or someone you know like to speak at a future ASQ meeting? We're always looking for volunteers. Be creative! Exercise your public presentation skills! Earn recertification credits! Please contact programs25@asq0511.org.
About Us:
ASQ Section 0511 is a geographic community that lives intertwined with the network of ASQ Divisions — technical communities specializing in specific quality domains and supporting ASQ Certifications in their domains.