2026 - August ASQ Orange Empire, Section 0701, Monthly Meeting- August 11th

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In today's rapidly changing business and regulatory landscape, professionals are expected to make important decisions despite incomplete information, competing priorities, and evolving risks. Whether determining the best course of action during a quality issue, responding to an audit finding, evaluating regulatory strategy, or leading organizational change, uncertainty is often unavoidable.

This presentation introduces a practical, risk-based approach to decision making that can be applied across industries and functional areas. Attendees will learn how to assess available information, recognize common decision-making biases, evaluate risk objectively, and communicate decisions with confidence.

This session will explore techniques for balancing data, experience, stakeholder perspectives, and organizational objectives to make sound, defensible decisions. Participants will leave with practical tools they can apply immediately to improve decision quality, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and navigate uncertainty with greater confidence.

Julie Manchester is the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality at Autonomix Medical, where she leads the company's regulatory, quality, and clinical functions. With more than 15 years of experience in the medical device, aerospace, product testing, and nuclear industry, she has successfully guided organizations through FDA submissions, global regulatory approvals, quality system implementation, compliance remediation, and external audits.

Julie holds RAPS RAC-Device, ASQ CQA, ASQ CMQ/OE and various ISO 13485, AS9001, ISO 17025, ISO 9001, and NQA-1 Lead Auditor certifications. She is an active leader within the regulatory and quality community, serving on the boards and committees of organizations including ASQ MDD and RAPS SoCal LNG.

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Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) is an ongoing effort and approach for manufacturing companies seeking to increase productivity, reduce waste, strengthen quality, and build longterm competitive advantage with highest level of organizational commitment to meet and ongoing exceed customer satisfaction.

In current fierce global competitive space, CPI is the main foundation to achieve Operational Excellence (OpEx), a disciplined, datadriven and systemic management strategy seeking to sustain and improve the organizational growth in today’s rapid technologically, economically and politically evolving environment, with an ultimate vision of being a world class performer. By attending this clinic presentation, you will …

• Understand Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) and its relationship to Operational Excellence
• General Roadmap, Tools, and Benefits of CPI implementation
• Requirements and Practical Challenges
• Review Real Life Examples of Practical Applications of CPI in Defense Industry

Greg Golamirians is the Director of Operations at Marvin Land Systems, a defense contractor involved with the product development and manufacturing of various systems for defense, aerospace, and military vehicles. With over 25 years of field hands-on experience, he is specialized in a diverse range of expertise including manufacturing, operations excellence, quality and reliability, process development, and improvement methods. He also has extensive experience in leadership, strategy development and execution, engineering, project management, and financial acumen. His background spans across multiple industries, namely medical devices, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, automotive, HVAC, material handling, and consumer goods. He is very passionate both as a professional and mentor with delivering specialized training and coaching to support practitioners in gaining technical insights in their daily operations as well as mentoring and assisting them to succeed and excel in their careers. His accomplishments include successfully leading various process improvement initiatives to reduce scrap, cost, cycle time, and defects as well as improving yield, design for manufacturability, process automation, and improvements projects, and implementing lean manufacturing and quality management systems for various industries. He has B.S. and M.S. In Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering as well as MBA in Finance from California State University Pomona. Also, he holds PMP, CSSBB, CRE, CQE, and CQLA certificates.