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 David Hutchins Principal
Msc; C.Eng, M.I.Mech.E. FIQA, Chartered Quality Professional
In David’s early career he was Chief Production/Industrial Engineer then Works Manager in the Automotive Components Industry before becoming followed by 10 years teaching and consulting in Business Management prior to founding David Hutchins International.
David co-presented with the unchallenged World leading expert, Dr Juran, on all his annual courses in the UK from 1983 until Dr Juran’s retirement from international travel in 1992. He was a personal friend of the late Professor Ishikawa and was the only European to be invited to contribute material for the book which commemorated his life. He has been a key note speaker at many seminars organised by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) in Japan and to this day works with the well known specialists in Concept Engineering, Drs Kano and Shiba.
He has been an invited keynote speaker at conferences all over the world including the USA, Japan, South Africa, various Middle Eastern Countries, India, and all over Europe, gave the John Loxham Lecture on World Quality Day in 2009 and was commissioned by the CQI to carry out the creation of the new CQI qualifications.
Director General (UK) for the World Council for Total Quality Excellence in Education, Chairman of the Avon Branch of the CQI, Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Panel of the CQI journal Quality World.
He has on many occasions single handedly assisted some large organisations achieve global standards of business performance through the application of the concepts found on this web site as will be found in the case studies selected. |
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 Dr. Vineeta Kamran (M.A., M. Phil. Ph.D., English)
Dr. (Mrs.) Vineeta Kamran (M.A., M. Phil. Ph.D., English) Is a dynamic academician and has been the Principal for the last Twenty Years and a founder of City Montessori School & Degree College, Kanpur Road, Lucknow. Dr. Kamran has been trained by QCI International, USA and has travelled widely all over the World to visit various educational institutions. She has also attended & conducted various seminars, conventions, training programmes in India and abroad on TQM and QCCs. The first school student QC-Jai Jagat was started in her school and she was the Convenor of the First International Convention on Students Quality Control Circles, ICSQCC’97 at Lucknow. She has been the spirit behind launching the International QC Academy and Human Excellence Research Center within her college which is affiliated to QCI International, USA and is also the Executive Director, World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education (WCTQEE).
She was honoured with the Best CEO Award of the Nation for the year 1997-98 by Quality Circle Forum of India, for promoting QCCs among the students at the National and International level. She was also nominated for the Woman of the Year 2000 Award by the American Biographical Institute, Inc. Dr. Kamran is also on the Board of Directors of Quality Circle Forum of India since the year 2001. She is also a visiting Faculty for the Asian Productivity Organization. Recently she has been appointed as the visiting fellow for the Kingston University, London, UK for imparting modules on Total Quality Management and Educational Technology. She has been the President for the All India Principal Association of ISC Schools in the year 2004. Her school has also figured as the State level Award Winning Nomination received from State/ UT Govts. Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India, of Category ‘A‘ schools (Private / Govt. Aided schools) from the state of Uttar Pradesh for the year 2003.
Also as one of the active members of the American Society of Quality (ASQ), she is involved in initiating Quality Trends in Education through International Training sessions on a regular basis. She was again elected as the Vice President of Association of Schools for the Indian School Certificate for the year 2010.
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Richard Ennals is Professor of Corporate Responsibility and Working Life at Kingston University (UK),
Has visiting professorial posts at Agder University (Norway). Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), and Linnaeus University (Sweden). He is Vice Chairman of the World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education, and a board member of the UK Work Organisation Network.
After studying philosophy and history at King's College Cambridge, Richard taught history in the UK and Nigeria, before becoming a researcher and then research manager at Imperial College London, where he worked with a national programme in advanced IT, linking companies, universities and governments. He established the IT Development Unit and Staff Development Unit at Kingston College, before becoming professor at Kingston Business School in 1990. He has been Chairman of the Council for Education in World Citizenship, Chairman of the Club of Geneva (concerned with health and well-being of the individual in the workplace), and a Board member of the International Commission on Occupational Health and the UK National Commission for UNESCO.
Richard's books include: "Star Wars: A Question of Initiative" (1986), "Artificial Intelligence State of the Art Report (1987), "Preventing IT Disasters" (1995), "Business Success through Human Centred Systems" (1995), "Work Life 2000: Quality in Work" (1999, 2000, 2001), Work Organisation and Europe as a Development Coalition (1999), Dialogue, Skill and Tacit Knowledge" (2006), "From Slavery to Citizenship" (2007), "Learning together for Local Innovation: promoting learning regions" (2007), and "Older Workers in a Sustainable Society" (2011).
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 Robert Parrington MBA MCMI
Robert is an experienced entrepreneur with an excellent understanding of the internal needs of a business, a proven ability in identifying external market growth opportunities, and over 20 years’ experience in starting, developing, and financing a number of SME businesses in the retail and service sectors. More recently he has undertaken consultancy work in supporting private and public institutions in graduate development. He lectures part-time on the Kingston Global MBA, has taken on a student mentoring role, and has been instrumental in enabling Student Quality Circles.
As a Research Associate he is currently investigating the use of new techniques to improve the quality of working life and promote employee engagement. He is also involved with delivery of Forum Theatre to academic and business clients as a tool to help support work place innovation and improvement.
Robert is a school Governor and a Director of a charity supporting youth development and education through sport.
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 Prof. Dinesh P. Chapagain
Industrial Engineer by profession, Dinesh P. Chapgain is a firm believer of QUALITY for overall performance excellence of nation, society, organization and individual. After doing his first degree in Physics in Nepal, he did Mechanical engineering in India, Master degree in Industrial Engineering and Management in Thailand and Doctoral research in India. After serving for 2 decades in public and private sector industries, from floor level engineer to Chief Executive Officer, he took journey for another 2 decades towards academia conducting studies and researches on various areas related to quality and working as professor of management at School of Management and dean at School of Engineering in Kathmandu University, Nepal. He has presented more than two dozen research papers on quality and productivity in various international conferences at different parts of the world. He is the author of five books, two in English and three in Nepali language, all related to quality and productivity. He is recipient of “World Quality Leader” award from the World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education (2205). Prof. Chapagain has received the Asia Pacific Quality Organization’s Presidential Excellence Award in September 2010. He is life member of Nepal Engineers Association and Management Association of Nepal. Presently, he has taken a mission of developing quality mindset among young students to prepare Total Quality People for the future. For more about Prof. Chapagain, visit www.dineshchapagain.com.np
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 Sophie Osterberg BA (Hons)
At Kingston University, where Sophie undertook studies for her BA, she first came in contact with Student Quality Circles via her professor Richard Ennals. Sophie actively engaged in setting up the first SQC in England at her university. The involvement took Sophie and a co-member to Lucknow, India, to participate and hold a presentation about the recently set-up SQC for an international audience. Sophie has after her graduation continued her commitment to the SQC idea by co-writing a chapter in a book on the topic and by introducing the concept at a residence for drug-abusers in Sweden, which she is currently working on to develop further. Sophie is also working within the airline industry where she is using the concept to gain ideas and engage employees within the company.
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Paresh Kathrani llb (hons), llm (Lond.), Of LIncoln’s Inn, Barrister
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW ENFORCEMENT
Paresh Kathrani completed his Bachelor and Masters of Law degrees in London, before taking a gap year involving travelling and research. He completed the Bar Vocational Course and in a non-practicing capacity, assisted asylum seekers with their human rights claims for six years. He left to complete his PhD at the School of Law, Kings College, London: the title of
his thesis is ‘International Refugee Law and Legal Theory: Developing a New Global Ethic for the Contemporary Protection of Refugees.’ Paresh has taught law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, has given training in human rights and assisted with a GCE Specification on Global Perspectives. He has published in the field of globalisation and international human rights and is affiliated to a number of human rights groups. He is also one of the co-directors of the Centre for Global Morality, an NGO that is committed to facilitating global dialogue, trust building and respect for human rights.
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Hesameddin AREF KASHFI
M. Sc. in Elec. & Electronics Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran (1973), D. E. A. in Sociology, Paris University, France (1979),
Hesam AREF KASHFI holds an M. Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Shiraz University in Iran and a Degree in Sociology from Paris University in France as well as certificates in quality, quality management and TQM from reputable institutions in UK and Japan. He is a consultant and trainer in quality and quality management and serves as the Chairman and Managing Director of Continuous Improvement Engineering Consultants and Chairman of Institute of Quality Engineering in Iran. He has widely lectured and conducted seminars and workshops on TQM and related issues for a broad range of organizations and has had contributions to large quality congresses and conferences in 50+ events in Iran and many other countries including United Kingdom, Pakistan, Japan, UAE, China, India, Nepal, Turkey, Malaysia, Uzbekistan as speaker, invited speaker or keynoter. He is the Founder and President of Iranian Society of Quality Managers, Establishing Member of Asian Network for Quality, Vice-President for External Affairs and Life Member of Asia Pacific Quality Organization and Senior Member of American Society for Quality. Hesam has been instrumental in making world quality movement known for Iranian community and vice versa. He has close relationship and cooperation with international and national quality organizations in many countries and due to his outstanding endeavors he is known as “Quality Ambassador of Iran.” In this regard and in the honor of his tireless efforts for promotion of quality, quality management and excellence and for receiving the historic supporting message from Dr. Joseph M. Juran for the quality movement in Iran in 2004, an official postage stamp is printed and issued recognizing him as the “Pioneer of Excellence.” Hesam is the recipient of the President’s Award from Asia Pacific Quality Organization in 2006 and also is elected as an Academician at the prestigious International Academy for Quality since 2006. As latest achievements, he has received “ASQ Centurion Award” in Tokyo in September 2008 and also “APQO Harrington- Ishikawa. Executive Gold Medal” for spreading cause of quality worldwide and especially in Asia and Pacific Rim in Mexico City in 2009. Hesam’s main fields of activities are quality culture, leadership and human resources development. He strongly believes in people and their inherent potential in shaping their own future by transforming themselves as a foundation and building block for changing their organizations and societies. |
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John Dansey
Director of DHI Quality Management Systems
MSc in Engineering Manufacture - Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry.
Member of the Chartered Quality Institute.
Member of the Association of Quality Management Consultants International Ltd.
Lead Assessor of Quality Systems Registered QS-9000 Assessor.
Lead Tutor on IRCA approved ISO9001:2000 transition courses.
In addition to John's skills as a presenter, he has been a great asset to DHI in the development of a range of our training materials.
John began working with David Hutchins in late 1999 and between them created one of the first ISO 9000:2000 Transition Auditor courses to be approved by the IRCA. They then made extensive modifications to the DHI Auditor/Lead Auditor course, and virtually rewrote the entire case Study to make it one of the best Management Systems courses available in the opinion of our students.
John has subsequently worked on the development of our courses for CQI Diploma in Quality Management and other courses leading ultimately to the designation Chartered Quality Professional, ISO 14000 and OHSAS 18000 Implementation.
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George Preston
DHI Head of Training and Corricula development for the DHI Chartered Quality Institute professional qualifications
Certificate in Management and Statistics – 1985
ISO 9000 Lead Internal Auditor (IRCA registered) – 1997
Diploma in Quality Management – 1998
NVQ assessor – A1 (D32/33) – 2000
Diploma in Lean Manufacturing – 2003
Member of the Institute of Leadership and Management - 2002
Educational Qualifications
HND Mechanical Engineering – Lucas Training School – 1972 to 1976
Teaching Certificate Part 1&2 City & Guilds – Dudley College – 2000 to 2001
Certificate in Education – Wolverhampton University – 2002 to 2003
George Preston is a very accomplished and capable business manager with twenty eight years experience within the automotive, service and aerospace industry. He has also spent the last eight years working as a curriculum manager for the seventh largest college of Higher Education in the UK and assisted in the development the DH International Quality College Distance Learning materials |
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