Dr. Gary Cort - Chair of ISO Technical Committee 176 and Principal at
Exxeos Group
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Dr. Gary Cort currently chairs ISO Technical Committee 176, which is responsible
for the continued evolution of the ISO 9000 family of international quality management
standards. Dr Cort is a principal at Exxeos Group, an
alliance of international management consulting firms focused on operational excellence
through flawless execution. He works with Fortune 500 companies throughout the world
to dramatically improve operational effectiveness.
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Dr. Cort has more than 30 years of quality management experience specializing in
software engineering, project management, configuration management, and metrics.
Dr. Cort has led large-scale projects for NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and
the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he also served as Quality Officer.
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Prior to forming Exxeos Group, Dr. Cort was vice president for software quality
at Research In Motion, the developer of the Blackberry. Prior to that, he co-led
the world-wide CMMI deployment effort for Intel Corporation. Dr. Cort has enjoyed
a long and productive relationship with the Software Engineering Institute and is
a certified SCAMPI High-Maturity Lead Appraiser and CMMI Instructor as well as one
of the authors of the SCAMPI B&C appraisal methods. He has worked with many
international quality models and standards and has drawn extensively on ISO 9001,
ISO 14000, Six Sigma, CMMI, and Malcolm Baldrige to create harmonized quality management
solutions. He is the developer of the PEAK measure of process capability and holds
various patents in the domain of statistical quality control.
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Dr. Cort holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Texas A&M University and is an ASQ Certified
Software Quality Engineer. Dr. Cort is a former Adjunct Professor of Software Engineering
at the University of New Mexico and currently serves on various standards and advisory
boards.
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