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Oliver Berry

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Quality, Safety, Environmental, Medical Device, Telecommunications & Aerospace — General Qualifications and Competency

Quality Management System Certification – Lead or Senior Auditor:

  • International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA):
    • QMS 2000 Lead Auditor — #A014634
  • RAB-QSA (Registrar Accreditation Board - Register Certified Auditors):
    • QMS IPC Lead Auditor # QI02119
  • RAB-QSA (Registrar Accreditation Board - Register Certified Auditors):
    • Skill Examiner – QMS #2119

Environmental Management System Certification – Lead or Senior Auditor:

  • RAB-QSA (Registrar Accreditation Board - Register Certified Auditors):
    • EMS Lead Environmental Auditor # 005118
  • CEAA (Canadian Environmental Auditing Association):
    • Environmental Management System Lead Auditor # 2000-001
  • RAB-QSA (Registrar Accreditation Board - Register Certified Auditors):
    • Skill Examiner – EMS #2119

Health and Safety Management System — OHSAS18001 – Lead Auditor:

  • Registrar Qualified Lead Auditor – qualified as Lead Auditor by two registrars
  • Conduct Pre-assessment, Base-line assessments, Registration, and Surveillance

Telecommunications Quality Management System  – TL9000 — Lead Auditor:

  • TL9000 Auditor Class(s) – successful completion
  • Telecommunication background and experience
  • Conduct QuEST Forum TL9000 certified training
  • Conducted numerous Registration & Surveillance Audits to TL9000 Standard
  • Conducted Accreditation Body Witness Audit - successful
  • Service on Certification Body Registrar Certification Board for TL9000

Aerospace Quality Management System – AS9100:

  • Trained in aerospace standard requirements (successful completion RABQSA certified classes)
  • Aerospace experience – sub-contract services and auditing
  • Conducted Initial Certification audit – witnessed by ANAB
  • AA (aerospace auditor) Certified with RABQSA AS9100 Aerospace Auditor A02119

Medical Device Quality Management System – ISO13485:

  • Trained in medical device standard requirements
  • Medical Device experience – work, consulting and auditing

Combined – Integrated QMS and EMS Audits:

  • Established audit process and methods for conducting combined audits
  • Conducted 70 (plus) fully integrated Management System Surveillance Audits

Quality Management System – Audits:

  • Registration, Surveillance, Upgrade, Re-certification and GAP (Base-line) Audits
  • Qualified in numerous NACE/ SIC Codes
  • Conducted Audits at: Ford, Volvo, Mazda, Visteon, Honda, and numerous non-automotive companies in Japan, Canada, Mexico
  • Conducted 300 (plus) QMS Registration and Surveillance Audits
  • Conducted numerous ISO 9001: 2000 upgrade, registration and surveillance audits

Environmental Management System – Audits:

  • Registration (Phase/ Stage 1 and 2 or Planning and Main), Surveillance, GAP (Base-line) Audits
  • Qualified in numerous NACE/ SIC Codes
  • Conduct Nuclear EMS operations audits
  • Conducted Audits at: Ford, Volvo, Mazda, Honda, and numerous non-automotive companies in Japan, Canada, Mexico
  • Conducted 255 (plus) EMS Registration and Surveillance Audits

Management System Consultant:

  • Quality and Environmental:
    • Certified Consultant — RAB-QSA # 00511

Quality and Environmental Management System — Accreditation Body Witnessed Audits:

  • Witnessed by the RAB (ANAB), RaV and UKAS conducting numerous QMS (ISO9001: 1994, QS9000, TL9000, ISO9001: 2000, AS9100) and EMS (ISO14001) Registrar Accreditation, Surveillance and Scope Expansion Audits.

Quality Management System (ISO9000) Advanced/ Lead Auditor training courses:

  • Instructed 100 (plus) classes.

Quality Management System Internal Auditor, Documentation, Implementation, Overview – training courses:

  • Instructed 200 (plus) classes.

Quality Management System Course Materials:

  • Lead Auditor, Internal Auditor, Documentation, Implementation, Integration, and Overview:
    • Authored, co-authored, edited three (3) different training companies’ materials.

Environmental Management System (ISO14001) Advanced/ Lead Auditor training courses:

  • Instructed 35 (plus) classes.

Environmental Management System Internal Auditor, Documentation, Implementation, Overview – training courses:

  • Instructed 20 (plus) classes.

Environmental Management System Course Materials:

  • Lead Auditor, Internal Auditor, Documentation, Implementation, Integration, and Overview:
    • Authored, co-authored, or edited course materials.

ISO/IEC17025 Testing and Calibration Laboratory:

  • Course development, and Course presentation,
  • Work experience in testing laboratory operations.

Daimler-Chrysler: Manufacturing Quality Assurance System (MQAS):

  • Implementation experience and auditing experience.

IBM Corporation — 25 Years of experience (retired) — 1968-1993

  • Product Engineering (including electro-mechanical and software)
  • Development Engineering (including electro-mechanical and software)
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Assembly Engineering
  • Process Engineering
  • Material Logistics
  • Procurement/ Purchasing
  • Production Control
  • Quality Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Customer Engineering Support
  • Various Management assignments

Advisory Contract Administrator & Procurement Manager – IBM Corporation:

Production Procurement Department (domestic and international) supporting manufacturing system (Charlotte, NC), ensuring continuity of supply, meeting cost objectives, and conducting supplier negotiations.

Engineering and Management – International Business Machines Corporation:

Responsibilities and assignments included the following: Product and Development (Electro-Mechanical and Software Design) Engineer; Manufacturing, Process, and Assembly Engineer; Quality and Environmental Engineer; Production Control; Procurement; Engineering and Procurement Management. Significant Career Accomplishments: Electro-Static Discharge design and development, development of qualification criteria for manufacturing equipment, reliability and performance improvements, electro-photographic printer and copier process development engineering, engineering and development responsibilities for System Printers, Materials Logistics and Procurement assignments.

Third Party Registrars

helped to established and obtain accreditation (through RAB, UKAS, and RvA) for two (2) Registrars. Including writing EMS and QMS Audit Program Management Procedures – served as Audit Program Manager for two (2) Registrars and Deputy Audit Program Manager for one (1) Registrar. Worked for numerous different Registrars conducting EMS and QMS Registration and Surveillance Audit activities.

Industry experience includes:

automotive, computer, casting, forging, molding, distribution, agricultural (including tobacco, cattle and farming), oil and gas extraction (exploration services), construction, textile, metal fabricated, electronic and electric equipment, transportation services, telecommunications, aerospace and others.

Thirty-five plus years of Industry Experience in various auditing, consulting, instructional, engineering (product, development, manufacturing, software and quality), purchasing, business and management assignments with certification, special training, abilities and skills in:

  • Program, Leadership and People Management
  • Organizational Skills
  • Problem Solving Abilities
  • Flexibility
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Written and Oral Communication Skills
  • Manufacturing Processes

A creative, dependable, results-oriented professional with the ability to manage and carryout all types of assessments, and technical and business assignments, meet aggressive schedules, prepare detailed technical/ business and audit reports, and administer detailed projects.

Technical Publication and Awards

Published numerous technical disclosures, a number of technical designs with patents pending, and a number of copyrights, and received a number of achievement awards. 

Hardware and Manufacturing Processes Experience

Experience in the design, manufacture, and utilization of the following hardware and manufacturing methods and processes:

  • Electrical connectors      
  • Mechanical fasteners
  • Electrical discharge machining - EDM
  • Powdered and sintered metal & die and sand casting
  • Glass (float and fabrication)         
  • Bonding and adhesives
  • Heat treating & etching and plating
  • Metal stamping and forming & deep drawing and extrusions
  • Grinding and other metal/ material removal methods
  • Hot upsetting and cold forming       
  • Screw machine
  • Polymer - injection, blow molding, structural form and others
  • Electronic card assembly - pin through hole (PTH) and surface mount technology (SMT)
  • Numerous other assembly and manufacturing processes.

Special Education, Training and Experience

  • AS9100 Aerospace Auditor Training and basic experience
  • Medical Device training
  • OHSAS18001 Safety Auditor Training and industry experience
  • CADAM, CATIA - Basic 3D Modeling, CAD and CAE
  • Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
  • Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility (EMI and EMC)
  • Purchasing Negotiations and Legal Implications of Purchasing Contracts
  • Patent Procedures and Hardware Inventions
  • Material Logistics and Just-in-time (JIT) Manufacturing
  • Six Sigma Process Applications
  • Software design and Application 
  • Robotics
  • Continuous Flow Manufacturing Fundamentals
  • Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
  • Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA)
  • Value Engineering (VE)
  • Reliability and Dependability Engineering (R&DE)
  • Reliability and Maintainability (R&M)
  • Problem Solving and Bench Marking and Baseline Evaluation Methods
  • Transportation Equipment, Motor Vehicles, Car Bodies, Parts & Accessories
  • Aerospace AS9000 Requirement — General Electric training for Registrars
  • ISO9000 Lead Assessor Training (IQA/ANSI-RAB)
  • TL9000 Telecommunication Registrar Auditor Training (QuEST Forum – EXCEL)
  • Telecommunication Industry TL9000 Registrar Auditor
  • ISO 14000 Environmental Management System – instructor (IRCA & RAB)
  • QS9000 Lead Auditor Training (AIAG)
  • Environmental Regulatory Law Training
  • Engineering Classes, University of Kentucky - IBM Corporation
  • 2,000(+) hours, Various IBM and Independent Classes

Membership: Professional Memberships:

  • Quality Society of Australasia (Australia and New Zealand) - QSA
  • American Society for Metals – ASM
  • Environmental Assessment Association – EAA
  • International Quality Society – IQS
  • American Society for Quality – ASQ
  • Wyoming-Montana Safety Council
  • Society of Manufacturing Engineers – SME
  • Society of Automotive Engineers – SAE
  • Society of Plastics Engineers – SPE
  • Electrical Overstress/ Electro Static Discharge Association – EOS/ESD

Past professional memberships:

  • President, Condominium Association Board of Directors
  • Governors Environmental Advisory Commission
  • City and State Government
  • Governors Economic Development Commission
  • Planning and Zoning Commission
  • City County Water Commission
  • Governors Transportation Advisory Commission
  • Boy Scout Leader
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