For more than 25 years, Joseph Sorrentino has been instrumental in implementing successful quality management systems for commercial companies and government agencies throughout the United States. His clients have included The Boeing Company, Allied Signal/Honeywell, the United States Army Corp of Engineers and the Unites States Navy.

As president and CEO of Lean Quality Systems, Inc., Sorrentino specializes in implementing new standard methods for the corporate sector and have successfully worked with more than 25 corporations in the Southern California area alone. Sorrentino and his team of highly-qualified consultants are experts in quickly assessing management systems and processes, recognizing problem areas, bottlenecks, and waste. Sorrentino himself is recognized within the corporate sector as one of the few consultants who not only tells you what needs to be done, but shows you how to do it.

Sorrentino’s training methods are consistent with ISO 9001:2000 International Standard; AS 9100 Rev. B Aerospace Standard; ISO 13485 Medical Device Standard; EN 46001 European Standard for Medical Devices; CMM Capability Maturity Model (combined SW-CMM, EIA/IS 731 and IPD-CMM v0.98 into a single framework); CMMI Capability Maturity Model Integration (Software Engineering Institute (SEI) needed to incorporate ISO/IEC 15504 into the CMMI Framework); Disaster Preparedness; Homeland Security; Welding & Metal Fabrication; Repair & Overhaul; NDT Inspection Methods; SPC; environmental, Health & Safety; Gemba Kaizen; Lean Thinking; Kanban; PDCA; TAKT and Six Sigma techniques. Mr. Sorrentino is also a Certified Level III Examiner for Visual, Dye Penetrant and Ultrasonic Inspection at the NAVSEA System Command in San Diego Calif., and a Government approved contractor for military contracts worldwide.

Sorrentino shares his expertise with the community by serving with The Engineering Society for Advancing Mobility Land Sea Air and Space International (SAE), and as President/CEO of Lean Quality Systems Inc. of Laguna Niguel, Calif. Recently, Mr. Sorrentino has presented at the American Society for Quality’s (ASQ) regional and national conferences on quality management in Dallas, Tex. and San Francisco; the Society for Manufacturing Engineers annual WESTEC conference in Los Angeles; and the local chapters of the American Welding Society (AWS) and American Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ASNT) in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego.

Sorrentino has successfully completed more than 45 advanced military, university, and commercial courses, which are equivalent to a four-year bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (B.S.M.E).

Sorrentino has also written and published two training manuals entitled“ISO Joe’s Executive and Manager Overview: Understanding ISO/AS Requirements” and “ISO Joe’s The New Manager for the 21st Century: A Practical Guide to Configuration Management.”