New Folks - Please Take a Minute & Introduce Yourself/Say Hello! (8/2010 to TBD)

[krichmond0306]

1. Keith A. Richmond
2. Sr. Quality Assurance Process Engineer
3. Defense
4. Bath Iron Works, a division of General Dynamics, Bath, Maine
5. 10
6. I am described as highly passionate about my job by others
7. Doing things the hard way, cultural issues in any company blocking progress, REACTIVENESS instead of PROACTIVENESS
8. Less concentration of making a profit for share holders and more focus on cost of poor quality

 

[QA compliance]

1. Name -Tammy
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - QA Compliance
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Medical device, aerospace, military, plastics and automotive.
4. Company you work for and location - Medical device manufacturer in Ohio.
5. Number of years in the Business World - since 1982 (sorry, didn't want to say that number out loud)
6. Something personal that sets you apart -(I don't think we choose quality, I think it chooses us; therefore I really don't have something different.)
7. Your pet peeve about business practices - When someone says, "That's not my job"!
8. If you could change something in the Business World, what would that be? That companies put on 3 shifts instead of 2 long ones. Have people work 32 hours and pay them for 40 and employ LOTS more people. Unemployment will go down and the health of workers will go up.

 

[DeeRacer]

1. Name. Doris Lamb
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do. Quality Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in. Packaging
4. Company you work for and location. VDI, Inc, Louisville, KY
5. Number of years in the business world. 20
6. Something personal that sets you apart. Drag racer
7. Your pet peeve about business practices. Employees who refuse to accept change
8. If you could change something in the business world, what would that be? More consideration of employee benefits; less perks for the executives

 

[thienkiepphilang]

Hello all, very nice to join this forum
1. Name: Heroman
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Civil Engineer
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Construction
4. Company you work for and location: VN
5. Number of years in the business world: about 8 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: intelligent, partient
7. Your pet peeve about business practices: rule or flexible
8. If you could change something in the business world, what would that be? make the world be flatter.
Looking forward to discussing in the forum

 

[gamergirl26]

hey guys

 

[matwelli]

Hello, Mathew Wellington from Taranaki New Zealand.
Involved with Metrology Calibration labs running to the ISO 17025 guide (technical guide), currently doing my second "startup" (new lab) and have been involved with 4 in total over the last 12 years.

Found this site while browsing for a calibration database (but will have to build one again for the new lab, theres nothing that fits excatly what i need) and have decided to hang around, interesting conversations to be found here

 

[JohnKrist]

1. Name.-Johnny Kristensen
2. Job Title-Head of development
3. Industry you're in or have been in. Waste and recycling
4. Company you work for and location. Municipality of Lund, Sweden
5. Number of years in the business world. 10
6. Something personal that sets you apart. Aviation nut, hangs around airports and photograph aircraft
7. Your pet peeve about business practices. "Here's the ISO guys with more crap to adhere to"
8. If you could change something in the business world, what would that be? Realize that a 1.5 billion profit shouldn't make the stocks drop just because some nowitall expected 3 billion...constant improvement is not always the same as increased revenue

 

[Gord Galvin]

Gord Galvin

Technical Services Lead (Quality Manager) for full service contractors (dirt work to commisioning) on heavy industrial projects primarily oil and gas but a bit of of Nuke work as well
I'm a contractor with a couple of clients but for the last 2 years Flint Energy Services has demanded 90% of my current resources. Recently I was the technical services lead for the construction of Shell's Albian Sand Expansion (Froth Plant in an oil sands production facility) this was "turned over" last month and now I'm at Suncor's Firebag site doing the same roll on a variety of scopes trying to get Phase 3 up and running as well as tackling some of the early work for Firebag 4.

I have been involved in industrial trades since 1977 and started as a brick/block layers helper and a plumbers helper and have been involved with all trade disciplines in one way or another since

My biggest pet peeve is the believe the quality manager is responsible for quality (more on this later but I've seen some good threads on Linked In on this)

8. If you could change something in the business world, what would that be?

Hmmmmm, I think Rodney King had it right "Can't we all just get along" Enhanced communication, transparency and trust within organisations and external to subs and clients

 

[thangapandian.t]

1. Name : Hi all, Thangapandian
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do : Manufacturing Head
3. Industry you're in or have been in : Automotive
4. Company you work for and location (Caution - Remember this *IS* the internet) : India
5. Number of years in the Business World :20 years
Hope i will get and share Quality system and latest updation about Lean Concept and QAD

Kind Regards
Thangapandian.T

 

[Zigzag]

1. Ziggy
2. Production Chemist / Laboratory Chemist
3. Water and Wastewater Treatment / Environmental Testing
4. South Ireland
5. 3 years
6. I am from Poland, I moved to Ireland from New York over 2 years ago and I am engaged with Hungarian woman. Multicultural.
7. Careless attitude to work (unfortunately frequent in Ireland).
8. Better communication between top management and regular employees. More opportunities for young, talented people.