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SUMMARY:Quality Management for Young Professionals
DESCRIPTION:December 3\, 2024 | Virtual Event\n\n\nThe ACEC-BC YPG Vancouver Island Committee invites you to a professional development event on Quality Management for Young Professionals! \n  \nQuality Management in Consulting Engineering is vital for the well-being of our practice across all disciplines. Join us for a discussion on implementing quality management systems\, navigating common challenges\, and managing client expectations as a Young Professional. \n  \n💡 Why Attend? \n\nLearn the top tools and techniques for effective QM\nCultivate a mindset that champions continuous improvement\nUnderstand the risks and impacts of subpar quality management practices\n\n  \n🎤 Meet the Panelists:  \n\nSuzanne Powell\, Partner / Branch Manager\, Thurber Engineering\nBernard Abelson\, Business Management System Manager\, McElhanney\nJulian Vasquez\, Principal\, Senior Design Engineer\, Quality Management Lead\, PBX Engineering\nWil Hilsen\, Principal\, NHC\n\n  \n📚 Continuing Education Hours: 1.5 hours \n  \nDon’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights into Quality Management. Secure your spot today! \n\n\n\nACEC-BC is committed to providing a safe\, harassment-free space for all participants\, speakers\, and event staff. Please review the ACEC-BC Code of Conduct for Events. \n\n\n\n🎤 About the Guest Speakers: \nSuzanne Powell\, Partner / Branch Manager\, Thurber Engineering \nSuzanne Powell\, PEng\, is a Geotechnical Engineer and Partner at Thurber Engineering\, where she also managed the Victoria office. She joined the firm in 2009 after completing her studies at Queen’s University. Suzanne is activity in the geotechnical and consulting community\, as Past-Chair of ACEC-BC\, and incoming President of the Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique. She is one of Thurber’s Responsible Registrants and played a key role in developing the firm’s Quality Management Guidelines. \n  \nBernard Abelson\, Business Management System Manager\, McElhanney \nBernard has over 30 years’ experience in business development and multidisciplinary and multimodal transportation planning projects. He led the development of McElhanney’s Business Management System (BMS) which is the digitization of project processes\, and co-developed several Dashboards to aid project management and business data analysis. The BMS also facilitates Project Manager adherence to McElhanney’s award winning ISO 9001 certified Quality Management System which Bernard oversees. \n  \nJulian Vasquez\, Principal\, Senior Design Engineer\, Quality Management Lead\, PBX Engineering \nJulian has 24+ years of engineering experience in Canada and abroad. At PBX he completes field inspections & construction supervision in the majority of traffic signal and communication infrastructure installations projects in the Lower Mainland. He’s responsible for quality assurance on a large number of projects and was part of the team crafting PBX’s internal QA/QC manual. Thanks to him\, PBX usually exceeds client’s quality requirements and passes external audits with resounding success. \n  \nWil Hilsen\, Principal\, NHC \nWil is a Principal owner operating out of NHC’s Nanaimo office. Wil is a senior geomorphologist with over 20 years of industry experience applying geomorphology theory and knowledge to various coastal\, riverine\, and estuarine studies and design projects in southwestern BC.
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