Lawrence P. Gradin Resume Summary Focusing
on Quality Consulting
Mr. Gradin is a Quality, Engineering, Test, Calibration, Software Quality
Consultant and Assessor/Auditor. His business experience includes being the
chief executive officer of his own consulting engineering and quality firm
for more than a decade, thirty-five years of experience in multi-discipline
engineering management of power and heavy industry design, electrical,
instrumentation and control; equipment qualification, test and calibration of
mechanical and electrical equipment, telecommunications, assessment and
quality demonstration for critical industrial, product safety,
telecommunications, and nuclear safety related equipment, supply of technical
and quality training for utilities, manufacturers, laboratories, industrial
firms, pharmaceutical industry, and business.
Mr. Gradin is a graduate electrical engineer (BS, magna cum laude), has
been a Registered Professional Engineer in six states, a Registration
Accreditation Board certified Quality Management System Lead Assessor to ISO
9000, a Certified Lab Accreditation Assessor to ISO/IEC 25 and ISO/IEC 17025,
Certified Lead Auditor to ANSI/ASME NQA-1 and ANSI N45.2, ANSI Lead and
Technical auditor for ISO/IEC Guide 65 Certification Body Accreditation, Lead
Assessor of Inspection Bodies to ISO/IEC 17020, a recognized Bluetooth
Assessor (BTA), a Certified Lead Assessor by PDA (International Association
for Pharmaceutical Science & Technology) of Suppliers of Computer
Products and Services, ASQC Certified Quality Auditor. He is Chair of the
Electromechanical Advisory Committee for Laboratory Accreditation, a past
member of the Nuclear Power Engineering Committee of the IEEE Power
Engineering Society (PES), past Chair of the Quality Maintenance and
Improvement Subcommittee of the IEEE PES, member of the ASTM Committee E36 on
Conformity Assessment, member of the A2LA Accreditation Criteria Council,
Accreditation Approval Committee. Past member of ASQ "Assessment,
Verification, and Auditing Committee", member or senior member ASQ,
ASME, ISA, NCSL, and various other groups relating to quality, testing, equipment
assessments, or engineering. He has authored more than 65 technical papers
and textbook, "Equipment Adequacy Demonstration For Nuclear Power and
Related Facilities", US Copyright Office Registration 576 752, (1993).
Post engineering training relating to testing, quality, and assessments
includes Operational QA Courses through the American Society for Quality, ISO
9000 Series and Auditor training through KEMA-IQC, NATA/A2LA, IQA and RBA/RAB
accepted Lead Assessor and ISO 9000:2000 and ISO/TS 16949:2002 Transition
Training, Software Quality Auditor Training by PDA, certification program at
the American Management Research Institute, etc.
Mr. Gradin's experience relating to quality consulting and assessments
include assisting organizations establish programs in compliance with the ISO
9000 quality systems, ISO/IEC Guide 25, ISO/IEC 17025, EN45001,
Pharmaceutical Industry Computer Products and Services Requirements,
performing audits as a certified quality management system lead auditor,
providing quality training, and assisting in house quality staffs in the
quality sciences.
Mr. Gradin has participated in or led standards development relating to
Quality Management Systems as part of various activities for the American
National Standards Institute, American Society for Quality, American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers as
well as interface with international standards (e.g. ISO and IEC).
Mr. Gradin has been selected to be the lead auditor/assessor for more than
two hundred independent third party audits and assessments nationally and
internationally. Such audits results being used as part of programs for
acceptance by government agencies (e.g. Federal Communications Commission,
Federal Drug Administration, Australian Communications Agency), Accreditation
and Registration bodies (for ISO 9000 Quality Management; ISO/IEC Guide 25,
EN45001, ISO/IEC 17025 Laboratory Accreditation; as well as ISO/IEC Guide 65
Certification Body Accreditation). Firms assessed have included the full
gamut of sizes from small 2-3 man operations through those equal to the
largest in the world (IBM, HP, ITT, TRW, Intel, Delphi,
Seimens, Motorola, auto industry, pharmaceutical industry, etc).
A comprehensive resume is available by written,
phone, or email
request.
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