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Sally S Bruce (Fed)
Quality Manager, NIST Measurement Services
As the Quality Manager for NIST’s Measurement Services, Sally is responsible for the implementation of the NIST Quality Management System (QMS) by:
- Organizing and scheduling NIST-level QMS assessments;
- Conducting a NIST-wide evaluation of individual Division management reviews and produces a report on the health of the NIST QMS;
- Serving as chair of the NIST Measurement Services Council;
- Following through on timely completion of any revisions of NIST-QM-I such as those required by any changes that occur in applicable international standards such as ISO 17025, ISO 17034 and ISO 17043;
- Maintaining document control for NIST-QM-I;
- Serving as the NIST representative to the SIM QSTF for the presentation of NIST quality systems and assessments and reviewing the quality systems of other NMIs in SIM;
- Reviewing the NIST quarterly quality reports and provides a cumulative summary quarterly report to the Associate Director for Laboratory Programs, the Laboratory Directors, and the Division Chiefs/Office Directors;
- Guaranteeing that the current version of the NIST-QM-I is available on the NIST website and,
- Ensuring that NIST assessors are trained.
Sally previously served as the Chief of the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) from 2006-2011.
She was a previously a NIST metrologist who performed Optical Radiation Measurements and Calibrations.
She is a qualified lead assessor for the ISO 9000 series of quality management systems, is a Peer Evaluator for accreditation bodies throughout the regions of Asia Pacific and the Americas using the ISO/IEC 17011 standard. She is also a Peer Reviewer for National Metrology Institutes within the Americas, for quality systems based on the ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 17034.