Isabel Chavez Baucom (Fed)

Isabel presently serves as the Legal Metrology Standards Coordinator; where she leads and coordinates with OWM staff the creation, update, and publishing of the content of NIST OWM Technical Analysis and associated Executive Summary for 2024 for Specifications and Tolerances (S&T) and Laws and Regulations (L&R).  In this new role, she provides guidance and support to NIST Technical Advisors in best practices for implementing digital transformation for NIST Handbook 44 Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices, NIST Handbook 130 Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality, and NIST Handbook 133 Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods in order to ensure compliance with current laws and legal metrology requirements. The implementation of digital transformation involves generating new technical legal metrology content while reviewing and revising existing content to ensure consistency, accuracy, and relevance and ultimately making the information accessible to hundreds of stakeholders and customers through these various publications.

She developed, designed, and led the presentation of an information session (info hour) regarding the Digitalization of NIST Handbooks to state weights and measures officials, representatives from private industries and manufacturers, and federal agency governmental officials. I leveraged expertise in publications and digitalization to clearly explain and provide examples to stakeholders of how digitalization will help with the accessibility, use, and interpretation of the NIST documentary standards and technical guidance publications.

As the Quality Manager for the OWM training program, Mrs. Baucom assures continued compliance with the IACET accreditation for the OWM training program. She also provides technical data support for IACET by auditing the training quality system program.  

During her tenure at NIST-OWM, she has worked as the lead of the Laboratory Metrology Program Training and the quality manager for the OWM Training Program of the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) in the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). As part of the lab metrology program, she has helped with the developed performance of standards and formalized procedures for the Recognition of State legal metrology laboratories on a voluntary basis.

Professional Affiliations

• National Conference of Standards Laboratories International (NCSLI)
• The International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• National Council on Weights and Measures (NCWM)