JP Russell & Associates

JP Russell

Summary Biography of J.P. Russell
J.P. Russell is a management consultant and trainer who specializes in process and system audits and assessments for improving organization performance. He is a 30 year business practitioner holding such positions as president, director, plant manger, business manger, superintendent, manager of new ventures, product manager, capital projects manger, and military officer in the US Army Artillery. His work experiences range from fortune 200 companies to small service-focused organizations. He has received many business awards to demonstrate his innovative achievements that have resulted in tangible benefits to organizations. He is author of several books on process/system auditing and quality, and a regular columnist for ASQ Quality Progress magazine. JP has a BS in Engineering from The Ohio State University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Stuart of Management at IIT in Chicago.

J.P. Russell is owner of JP Russell and Associates (www.JP-Russell.com) and Director of Operations for QualityWBT Center for Education (www.QualityWBT.com). Mr. Russell is an ASQ Fellow, an ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) and former RAB QMS Lead Auditor. He is a member of ASQ, Institute of Internal Auditors, Standards Engineering Society, US TAG TC176 and Secretary of TG 9001-9004. He was also presented with the first ‘1997 Quality Auditor of the Year’ award by the Quality Audit Division of the American Society for Quality, received the “Outstanding Professional Achievement” award from US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the American National Standards Institute for ISO/TC176, and was presented with ASQ Testimonial Awards in 2000 and 2004. Mr. Russell has been a speaker at several national conferences and regional organizational meetings as well as being an ASQ qualified instructor.

JP is a author of Continual Improvement Assessment: Promoting and Sustaining Business Results, Quality Press 2004; ISO 9004 Criteria Checklist for Performance Improvement, Quality Press 2004; Process Auditing Techniques, Quality Press 2003, Internal Auditing Basics, Quality Press 2002, Puzzling Auditing Puzzles, Quality Press 2000; ISO Lesson Guide 2000, Quality Press 2000; editor of The Quality Audit Handbook, Quality Press, 1999 2nd edition; co-author of Puzzling Quality Puzzles, Quality Press 1998; principal co-author of the After the Quality Audit: Closing the Loop on the Audit Process, Quality Press, 2000 2nd ed.; and author of the Quality Management Benchmark Assessment - QMBA, Quality Resources and Quality Press, 1991 1st ed., 1995 2nd ed.; ISO 123 information and data disk (co-authored), 1990 and 1994; The Quality Master Plan, Quality Press 1990; and several magazine articles.