American Society of Quality Dinner Forum 

Speaker Topic: "Conflict Minerals"

Description: 

The public reporting and customer-driven requirements regarding supply-chain transparency surrounding Conflict Minerals presents several process and data management challenges for large and small companies.  As all companies are challenged to “do more with less”, we don’t all have the luxury of specialized tools and large teams dedicated to Conflict Minerals.  Given the increasingly detailed information demanded by customers… How does a company build a Conflict Minerals program with common MS Office tools and a relatively small team?  What are the roles, responsibilities, and process considerations? 

Using Finisar’s Conflict Minerals program, and improvements made in the past 3 years, as a case study, we will look at a Conflict Minerals program that can be built without specialized database systems, and with a few key players. 

Conflict Minerals:  How do we do this? 

• RCOI vs OECD Framework
• Building a Conflict Minerals Team
• A Word About Tools
• Survey Design
• Survey Implementation
• Data Consolidation
• Data Analysis
• Metrics and Reporting
• Evaluating the Survey Design

         Ms. Michele Harms                  Mr. Matt Berry

Speakers Biography:

 Ms. Michele Harms is a Quality System professional and ASQ certified Quality manager and Auditor.  Over the past 14 years,  she has built scalable, proactive quality systems for a variety of Silicon Valley telecom companies.  In 2011, she established Finisar’s Conflict Minerals program, which leverages best practices gathered from her experience as a Quality Auditor and state-level Baldrige Performance Excellence examiner.  At Finisar, she currently provides leadership and policy direction to the worldwide Quality System team – 15 direct and indirect team members across 6 sites, who supported the organization’s 14 sites in 8 countries and is responsible for the global quality management system including:  multi-site document control team; ISO-9001 certification; component engineering; and Green Compliance (ROHS / REACH / Conflict Minerals).

Mr. Matt Berry is a Data Analyst for Finisar and ASQ Certified Quality Engineer.  While at Finisar, he has built and scrubbed small databases pertaining to Green Compliance (ROHS / REACH / Conflict Minerals), Product BOMs and detailed part information.  His information breakdown allows for day-to-day tracking, gap analysis, and risk-based decisions across multiple divisions of Finisar.  Matt is also an active member in the ASQ SV Section—he has served as Education Coordinator and Marketer for the section.  During his leadership role, he helped identify and assign course instructors and vendors; ensured appropriate course venues, and marketed courses through appropriate channels and social media.

• 5:00 - 5:30 - Check In & Registration
• 5:30 - 6:10 - Presentation by attendees of the 2016 ASQ World Conference on Quality & Improvement (Sunil Pandey, Michael Sarhadi, Navin Dedhia)
• 6:15 - 6:55 - Dinner
• 6:55 - 7:10 - Section Business: John Latimer, Section Chair,
• 7:10 - 8:25 - Ms. Michele Harms: Conflict Minerals
• 8:25 - 8:30 - Door Prize drawing

Registration- a three part process:1) having a meal? and 2) select meal if you are having one  3) pay for the meal via PayPal

• Advance $35
• Late/Walk-in $40
• Unemployed $20
• Presentation only and special guests $0

Note: Advance registration ends at midnight Monday, August 15th.

Cancellation Policy: no refunds will be available unless you notify us before Monday night at midnight.

The ASQ Silicon Valley Leadership Team hopes to see you all at our dinner meeting!