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Pillar Management Associates: ISO 9001, 14001, TS 16949, OHSAS 18001, Z10 Training, Consulting
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Frank Degar is the president of Pillar Management Associates, a process improvement and ISO consulting firm. Frank's varied background gives him a unique perspective in the consulting and training process. Frank started his career as an electrical engineer for a large tier one automotive supplier. He then joined Whirlpool Corporation as a Senior Development Engineer. He left to start his own plastic molding company that grew to three facilities in ten years and also became a tier one automotive supplier. After selling his firm he spent ten years as a management consultant specializing in reestablishing troubled companies. In conjunction with this activity he has owned a construction firm, a distributorship and a computer systems reseller.
Frank then joined the University of South Carolina as the Associate Director of a NIST sponsored program called the Southeast Manufacturing Technology Center (SMTC) which helped small manufacturers become more competitive. He subsequently was asked to create an accredited registrar and was the co-creator of American Quality Assessors (AQA), an ANSI-RAB accredited registrar. He was the Executive Director of AQA until early 1997 when he and his partner formed Pillar Management Associates.
Frank is a RAB certified management systems lead auditor with over 400 audits, 60 of which were TS16949 and 10 are ISO 14000. Frank is recognized as an international expert in his field and has audited, consulted and trained in 12 countries including Italy, Greece, Lebanon, Egypt, China, Japan, Bulgaria, Costa Rica and India plus in North and Central America. He speaks regularly at several universities around the world. He was instrumental in establishing two additional accredited registrars for whom he conducts audits. In addition, he has created and conducts accredited lead auditor courses for both ISO 9000 and ISO 14000. Frank has a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Syracuse.
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