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LATEST NEWS

My August NSPE article on how epistemology and cultural convergence contribute to global business collaboration.

Thanks to the ASQ New York/ New Jersey Metropolitan for honoring me with the 2010 Chairman's Award for my contributions as Secretary and towards the Bergen Community College QA Partnership. Hoping we can keep the collaborative momentum going!

Pontificating on earthquakes, Japanese bullet trains, and spilled coffee in my June column.

Congratulations to Bergen Community College and its inaugural Quality Assurance Conference--thanks to all from industry and local schools that were able to attend and learn about QA's role in Sustainable Greening.

In the spirit of commencement season in universities everywhere, here's my Letter to a (Graduating) Young Engineer for this month's NSPE Young Engineer's Blog.

My poetry appears in the most recent issue of the award-winning journal, Isotope, Issue 7.2, available now.

PAST NEWS

Thanks to Dr. Bill Latzko and his Industrial & Operations Research class at Columbia University for inviting me to speak on introductory operational applications of DMAIC Six Sigma methods.

My article for NSPE on how the latest Hewitt Study shows why top companies for building leaders continue to focus on leadership despite tough economic times.

My Thinking Engineer's Holiday Guide to Taking Time Off appears in the print edition of the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of PE Magazine.

I compare and apply Jim Collins's work on the collapse of companies to the collapse of individuals in January's Young Engineer Blog.

Thanks to Dr. Esther Solomon at the Fordham University Graduate School of Business for inviting me to speak on supply chain globalization to her management class in December 2009.

My blog article on mentoring appears in the December 2009 print edition of Professional Engineering Magazine

How does a multi-millionaire scientist leverage simplicity? Check out my recent article on the NSPE Young Engineers Blog

I'm grateful for being asked to be the writer for the new Young Engineer's blog for the National Society of Professional Engineers. Come peruse my posts on the engineering life at the NSPE Young Engineers Blog on PE Journal

*My photography has become an Official Selection of the 2009 International Photography Awards!* Check out the Lucie Awards and more information on the Lucie Foundation here.

I'm presenting a talk about supply chain quality management in China at the ASQ Metropolitan Section's 2009 Ellis R. Ott Workshops in October at the Fordham University Graduate School of Business near Lincoln Center in Manhattan: Supply Chain Quality Management in China: Leveraging Cultural Convergence to Transition Challenges to Collaboration.

Was finally able to get my profile on IMDB updated. Thanks to Will and the Meeting Street Films team for the experience and happy anniversary to the shoot!

I was interviewed for a magazine article about networking and career building in the engineering profession. The article appears in the November 2008 print edition of PE Magazine, published by the National Society for Professional Engineers. Two minor corrections: first, they fell into the common trap of mis-spelling my company's name. Second, while it looks GREAT to have the letters "PE" after my name, it's a bit premature as I do not sit for the State Professional Engineering (PE) licensure exam until April 2009 (but perhaps this is a good omen!)
Conducting the phone interview was kind of surreal because I was in Gwangju, South Korea, at the time--it was close to midnight in my time zone and I was trying to talk to Eva, the writer, over the background sounds of a late night karaoke bar, where a supplier had brought me after dinner. Luckily, the interview was an opportunity to get outside for some fresh air, albeit hunched over a bar room staircase with one hand covering one ear and the other one squeezing my Blackberry into the side of my face, leaving a keyboard imprint on the side of my mouth. Surreal, but nice.

Check out my May 2008 interview in an issue of the NSPE newsletter, Professional Engineers in Industry.

I was quoted in a Quality Magazine article on using statistical process control in supply chains in InfinityQS.

I was one of the instructors at the NJ Transit Course in December 14, also on the Basics of Six Sigma. So if you've always wanted to visit Kearny, NJ, but never had a good excuse, now's your chance.

Had the great opportunity to present on six sigma fundamentals with my soon-to-be-PhD co-presented, Godson Tetteh, at Rutgers 59th Annual Ellis R. Ott Conference on industrial quality and statistics on October 5, 2007.

I spoke at the InfinityQS User Group Conference in Chantilly, VA June 3 - 5, 2007 at the Westfields Marriott. Infusion 2007 website. I'm spoke on Monday and Tuesday of the conference:
- High Volume Data Management: What Your Database and the Great Library of Alexandria Might Have in Common
- The Melancholy Operator's Guide to Gauging Blissfully

As a part of the Atlanta-based film production company I'm involved with, Ayce Group, Inc. I was interviewed on the Atlanta-based entertainment show RuleHollywood.com. Check out the interview HERE. The Ayce Group appearance is in the second half of the show, after the Cool People Entertainment interview (also movers and shakers in the ATL film world in their own right!).

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Article (January 8, 2006) Living Section by Gayle White: "Life Lists"; my own "life list" is on 43Things.com, which spawned the group's inclusion in this AJC article.