Roderick Munro

About Roderick Munro

Named the 2022 Auditor of the Year for LRQA North AmericaWorking on full qualifications for auditing to Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) with Business Continuity Analysis (BCA) and Business Continuity Risk Identification and Planning2017 ASQ Crosby Medal recipient: The ASQ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt HandbookRod has over thirty-five years of Process Improvement experience in the service and manufacturing industries working from the shop/store floor up into the managerial ranks. He is an ASQ Fellow and a Fellow of The Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) of England. He has extensive experience with Systems Management, Lean, Six Sigma, Quality Engineering, Risk, Safety, Environment and has worked with the Automotive Core Tools, ISO Series {and Automotive IATF 16949}, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 {ISO 45001}, ISO ISO 22716 Cosmetics, and Healthcare Systems Engineering. Additionally, he has been active with the Michigan Quality Leadership Award (MQLA) which is the Michigan level Baldrige process and is an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) trainer and program evaluator. Rod\'s latest books are Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare: A Pocket Guide, the Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Handbook {2017 ASQ Crosby Metal} & the CSSGB Study Guide, which are available through ASQ or can be viewed in Amazon.com. Recently approved as a Global Wind Organization (GWO) Auditor.Specialties: Management System for - Quality, Health & Safety, Environment {QSHE}Automotive Standards: APQP, PPAP, FMEA, SPC, MSASix Sigma Coach: Champions, Master Black Belt, Black Belts, Green Belts, Yellow Belts, Money Belts, ISO 18404Process Auditing for: ISO, IATF, MQLA, & ABET PV trainerTQM, QOS, BOS, MOS, others management systemsMotivation / Teams / Self Awareness / Customer Satisfaction / PresentationQuality in Training - Excellence of Instruction & Evaluation Methodologies / Curriculum Development Quality Planning / Cost of Quality / Systems Thinking / Operating Systems / Business Units / Problem Solving Methodologies - 8D, G8D, RAPID, Work Out / Risk Management, FMEATheories taught by: Crosby, Deming, Drucker, Feigenbaum, Gagne, Ishikawa, Juran, Kirkpatrick, Mager, Shingo, Taguchi, WomackLean Management, Lean Transformation, Lean Thinking, Lean Tools, Waste Reduction, Single-Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), etc.Healthcare Quality, Hospital, Morgue & Medical Practice Cost Improvement

Experience

1. Process Improvement Professional

   Asq - World Headquarters

   Feb 1984 — Present

   Fellow, CQE, CQA, CMQ/OE (Quality Manager)Very active member of the Society for over 35+ years.

Education

• Wayne State University

  Ed.S., Instructional Technology

• Adrian College

  BA, Business Administrations, Economics & Earth Science - Minor: Natural Sciences

• Eastern Michigan University

  MS, Industrial Technology / Industrial Engineering

Skills

• Cost of Quality
• Total Quality Management (Tqm)
• Automotive
• Ts16949
• Root Cause Analysis
• Quality Control
• Iso
• Iso 14001
• Business Process Improvement
• Tqm
• Kanban
• Kaizen
• Ohsas 18001
• Food Quality
• Iso Standards
• Strategy
• Ppap
• Quality Management
• Quality System
• Asq
• Apqp
• Training
• Customer Satisfaction
• Healthcare
• Fmea
• Quality Assurance
• Process Engineering
• Continuous Improvement
• Medical Devices
• Iso 9000
• Statistical Process Control (Spc)
• 5s
• Manufacturing
• Value Stream Mapping
• Six Sigma
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Fmea)
• Process Improvement
• Iso/Ts 16949
• Quality Auditing
• Toyota Production System