Scott Laman

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About Scott Laman

Global Quality Leader and Management Representative with broad Quality Management, Quality Engineering, and Quality Assurance experience in R&D, product/ process development, and manufacturing in the chemical, plastics, and medical device industries. Exposure to all aspects of business, and demonstrated successful interaction with diverse personnel from production operators to top management. Experienced and certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Black Belt who has implemented multi-site organizational changes, executed corrective and preventive CAPA’s to improve quality systems, implemented new global and local quality system processes, and completed numerous manufacturing improvement projects. American Society for Quality (ASQ) Fellow for "contributing to industry in the areas of risk management, quality/reliability and statistical techniques" M.S. and B.S. Chemical Engineering degrees with honors ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Quality Auditor, Biomedical Auditor, Six Sigma Black Belt, Quality Manager, and Supplier Quality Professional Overall performance rated at “Exceeds Requirements” in three different organizations with multiple managers at each organization, including 5 different managers at Teleflex. Accomplished curriculum producer and instructor of several quality-related internal training courses given companywide to multiple facilities. Subjects include risk management, problem solving, continuous process improvement, and non-destructive evaluation of plastics. Authored "The ASQ Certified Medical Device Auditor Handbook Fourth Edition" in February 2021 and “The ASQ Certified Quality Engineer Handbook in December 2022. Wrote 30 Quality Progress articles, 21 national and local quality presentations, a series of Internet articles, articles in trade journals, and others have written articles about my work. Specialties: Quality Systems, esp. Medical Device Risk Management, FMEA, ISO 14971 Statistical Techniques, including innovative applications Auditing Team Building and Facilitation Project Management Training 21 CFR 820 Six Sigma Reliability Engineering Team Leadership and Facilitation Problem Solving and Root Cause Analysis