The following pictures are from the Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership's 15th Annual Conference on Quality & Innovation held Thursday, October 17, 2022 at the Southbury Hilton Hotel

CQIA INNOVATION PRIZE WINNERS FROM DANBURY AREA

The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc. (CQIA) presented its 2002 entry level CQIA Innovation Prizes to organizations in the Danbury area. The following people were available to receive their plaques at the Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership's 15th Annual Conference on Quality and Innovation, "Celebrating Excellence Through Sharing."

From the left, Arthur J. Mannion, Jr., Executive Vice President, Sure Power Corporation (gold) in Danbury for FNBO Technology, a system that integrates fuel cells with rotary motor generators and flywheels; Tom Teynor, Product Manager, Pitney Bowes docSense (silver) in Danbury for postage by phone ESP solution, which converts existing legacy print streams into XNL format and delivers them via b number of other delivery channels (i.e., websites, e-mail), faxes, remote print and pager; Bill Maxwell, Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources and Facilities, Cendant Mobility (silver) in Danbury for 28 CIP winning applications; Wayne Pegolo, Manufacturing Manager, Ink Department, Trident - an ITW Company (silver) in Brookfield for creating a visual suggestion board for all associates in Trident's Ink business unit to see. This resulted in improved throughput, customer shipping lead-time, employee morale and total number of suggestions; Thom Crosby, President and CEO, Pal's Sudden Service, 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence in the small business category; and Sheila Carmine, Founder and Executive Director, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc., America's first state-level quality award using the Baldrige Criteria for its highest level award, Connecticut Leadership Award.

The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc. (CQIA) presented its 2001 entry level CQIA Innovation Prizes to organizations in Farmington and Manchester. The awards were presented recently during CQIA's 15th Annual Conference on Quality and Innovation, "Celebrating Excellence Through Sharing."

Those in attendance were from left, Karen Lang, Director Human Resources, Trumpf, Inc. (silver) in Farmington for Project SYNCHRO's three personnel political principles instituted by Trumpf's president. They are 1) All improvement measures will be developed and implemented by employee teams, ensuring that required qualifications and training are maintained; 2) No employee at TRUMPF will lose their job or have their salary negatively affected by changes made as a result of lean manufacturing initiatives, and 3) All improvements in efficiency and productivity will be used to fuel continued growth and success of the company; Patricia D. Verde, Director Social Work, Pastoral Services, John Dempsey Hospital, University of Connecticut Health Center (2 silver) in Farmington, for 1) Implementation of a service for the care of a large number of patients and families who are deaf or hard of hearing and 2) Decreasing the length of "approval to release" time without decreasing the quality or thoroughness of the necessary work; Diane Aresco, Manager Quality Improvement, ConnectiCare Preventive Health (6 silver) in Farmington for 1) Increasing adult immunization rate, 2) Depression screening for members with chronic illnesses. The screening includes a nurse case manager who uses the two question Whooley Depression Screen as part of their telephone assessment with the Whooley Screen sent directly to members, 3) Adolescent depression screening, selection and design of two validated physician depression tools and the development of a brochure for parents guiding them in recognizing signs and symptoms of teenage depression, 4) Using a multifaceted approach to improve overall member phone service, 5) DiabetiCare program which provides information, education, and case management to members with diabetes, and 6) Birth expectations program, a two-level Early Intervention System including risk survey to identify pregnant women who were at high risk for preterm labor, and an obstetrical precertification form to allow obstetricians to identify know risk factors at the time of precertification; Thom Crosby, President/CEO, Pal's Sudden Service, in Tennessee, recipient of the 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence in the small business category; and Sheila Carmine, founder and executive Director, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership Inc., America's first state level quality award using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence criteria for its highest level Connecticut Leadership Award.

Missing from the picture are Janet Sarin, Director Human Resources, Inframat Corporation (gold) in Farmington for its Nanox thermal spray powders, a thermal spray process to spray nano-structured powder feedstock for applications needing high performance coatings; and Bruce Marcus, Marcus Communications, (silver), Manchester, for its VoiceLink Communications, which allows users to roam through the entire coverage area more reliably than cell phones, the user can conveniently talk with their entire fleet, a sub-group, or an individual cost effectively across large areas.

CQIA Innovation Prizes Presented to Hartford Organizations

The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership (CQIA) recently presented their 2001 entry level CQIA Innovation Prizes to the following Hartford organizations. The awards ceremony took place at the CQIA Partnership's 15th Annual Conference on Quality and Innovation, "Celebrating Excellence Through Sharing," recently held in Southbury.

On hand for the presentation were, from the left: Glynis Powanda, Branch Manager, Fleet Bank (gold) for its Talking ATMs, voice guidance technology for automated teller machines serving blind and visually impaired customers; Charles E. Janson, Esq., Robinson & Cole LLP, (silver) for Extranets which provides lawyers and clients an opportunity to leverage information technology by sharing materials in a single, easy-to-reach location; Tod Kallenbach, Sr. Director, External Relations, The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, (gold) for PARTNERS program that teams with GE Funds to bring the arts into Plainville, CT classrooms as primary learning tools; Benjamin S. Todd, Director, Smart Neighborhood Initiative, Trinity College (silver), for its "Smart Neighborhood Initiative" that encourages not-for-profits, businesses, schools and residents with a mile of Trinity College to plug themselves into the Internet, and The Trinfo. Cafe which has a computer recycling center that pumps out needed hardware to residents in South Hartford; Jason Purslow, Tax Collection Examiner, Connecticut Department of Revenue Services (silver) for its Fast-File Program, a less complicated method of filing monthly and quarterly business tax returns for taxpayers through the use of existing hardware and innovative software; Thom Crosby, President and CEO, Pal's Sudden Service, Kingsport, Tennessee, 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence recipient in the small business category; and Sheila Carmine, founder and executive director, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc.

CQIA Innovation Prizes Presented to Meriden, Seymour and New Haven Organizations

The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership (CQIA) recently presented their 2002 entry level CQIA Innovation Prizes to the following organizations in the Meriden, Seymour and New Haven. The awards ceremony took place at the CQIA Partnership's 15th Annual Conference on Quality and Innovation, "Celebrating Excellence Through Sharing," held in Southbury.

On hand for the presentation were from the left: Thom Crosby, president and CEO Pal's Sudden Service, Kingsport, Tennessee, 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence recipient in the small business category; Linda Berger Spivak, Vice President of Patient Care Services, MidState Medical Center in Meriden (silver) for two awards, 1) Interdisciplinary health care team walking rounds on inpatient pavilion A, and 2) Community case coordinator who serves as a bridge from the inpatient environment and provides the link to agencies creating a seamless continuity; Larry Janesky, President, Basement Systems, Inc. (gold and silver) in Seymour for two awards, 1) gold, FlexiSpan Crack Repair System and 2) silver, Salesperson personal profile used in pre-appointment mailing; Robert Cavallo, HydroGel Product Manager, Perkin Elmer Life Sciences (gold) in Meriden for HydroGel coated slides, one of only two blank biochips designed for protein microarrays and is the premier product for developing fluorescent protein microarray assays; Suneet Talpade, CFO, Metaserver, Inc. (silver) in New Haven for Metaserver Process Integration Engine, a software tool that both business managers and IT workers can use, eliminating the gap that often exists between senior managers' goals and IT's potential; and Sheila Carmine, founder and executive director, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc., America's oldest state level quality award using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence criteria for its highest level Connecticut Leadership Award.

Missing from the picture is Joseph J. Pignatello, Agricultural Scientist, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (gold) in New Haven for treatment of contaminated soil and water by treating successfully more than 11 types of simulated chemical wastes in water and in soil by irradiating the reaction mixture of Fenton oxidation with light in the near ultraviolet region.

CQIA Innovation Prize Winning Organizations from Waterford, Mystic, Lyme, Groton and Willimantic

The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc. (CQIA) presented its 2002 entry level CQIA Innovation Prizes to organizations in Waterford, Mystic, Lyme, Groton and Willimantic. The following people were available to receive their plaques at the CQIA Partnership's 15th Annual Conference on Quality and Innovation, "Celebrating Excellence Through Sharing."

From the left, Thom Crosby, President and CEO, Pal's Sudden Service in Kingsport, Tennessee, recipient of the 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence in the small business category; Michael Pernal, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Eastern Connecticut State University (silver) in Willimantic for two awards, 1) Two faceted energy conservation program undertaken by facilities staff: upgrading the High Rise Residence Hall HVAC system to a two-pipe fan coil system generated by a heat pump geothermal system; and for lighting conservation: practices for replacing ballast and installing motion detectors for office light, as well as solar lights near dumpsters and in low light areas, and 2) Admissions Rating System based on comprehensive objective criteria and important subjective factors; T. J. Mullen, President, Best Management Products, Inc. (gold) in Lyme for SNOUT, an inverted hood, stormwater quality system; Mark J. Entwistle, Manager of Business Development, Anteon Corporation (gold) in Mystic for Pocketmultimedia and PMM Pockit Remote: Efficient low-cost software solution for real-time, high quality wireless video transmission; Nancy Beckwith, Senior Quality Specialist, General Dynamics - Electric Boat (4 silver) for 1) implementing a common parts catalog for three U.S. shipyards to collaboratively participate in a joint effort that implemented a commercial off the shelf software with standard process, procedures and audit programs at each company, 2) document and drawing distribution process that uses technology changes to eliminate the requirement of manually loading data and distributing hard copies via mail, 3) Critical Supplier Program that provides consistency for audits; fosters early identification of systemic material problems due to process control; creates a feedback loop so all parties are aware of the results and reduces the cost for oversight process, and 4) SPARS - Electronic VIR, a secure infrastructure that allows EB's suppliers to submit data to the shipyard and the shipyard to respond in kind, electronically; Peter J. Walsh, Vice President, Sonalysts, Inc. (gold) in Waterford for "Video Posters", a new way to design, produce, and convert images form horizontal 3:4 aspect ration to a vertical 16:9 mode, allowing one to incorporate standard video, photos, graphics animation and sound, and display it in an attention-commanding format; and Sheila carmine, Founder and Executive Director, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc., America's oldest state-level quality award using the Baldrige Criteria for its highest level Connecticut Leadership Award.

The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership Inc. (CQIA) presented its 2002 entry level CQIA Innovation Prize to organizations in Norwalk, Darien and Westport. The following people were available to receive their plaques at the Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership's 15th Annual Conference on Quality and Innovation, "Celebrating Excellence Through Sharing."

From the left, Patrick Cassidy, Faculty Coordinator, Information Technology, Norwalk Community College (silver) for Regional Cisco Systems Academy, a partnership with local public schools and a corporate partner, Cisco Systems, Inc. which developed a series of four computer networks capable of supporting national and global organizations; Jim Derivan, Manager Media Communications, LifeCare, Inc. (silver) in Westport, for a private web site, the Resource Center, that enables LifeCare to fulfill requests for information and referrals online using their proprietary customer service applications, accessible to specialists from desktops and to post the materials in PDF format to each employee's Resource Center; Kathleen Lundquist, Ph.D., President, Applied Psychological Techniques, Inc. (silver) in Darien for the 360 Metrics Job Modeling Tool that allows organizations to tailor assessment each position and to measure what the employee's job is actually about and what the specific expectations of the job are and the competencies associated with that position; Jeffrey Cantor, Dean, Norwalk Community College; Tony R. Chiravolo, Director IT, Advantage Human Resourcing (silver) in Norwalk for TalentLink, which allows Advantage Human Resourcing to consolidate all its client, contact and associate information in a single database; Thom Crosby, President and CEO, Pal's Sudden Service in Kingsport, Tennessee, recipient of the 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence in the small business category; and Sheila Carmine, Founder and Executive Director, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc., America's oldest state-level that uses the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence criteria for its highest level award, the Connecticut Leadership Award.

The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership (CQIA) recently presented their 2002 entry level CQIA Innovation Prizes to the following Stamford organizations. The awards ceremony took place at the CQIA Partnership's 15th Annual Conference on Quality and Innovation, "Celebrating Excellence Through Sharing," held in Southbury.

On hand for the presentation were from the left: Janice Rudolph, Senior Manager, Gartner, Inc. (silver) for the issue tracking tool that helps define user issues and enables Gartner's technicians to set realistic service level agreements, universally adopted throughout IT organization; James R. Marsden, Executive Director, Connecticut Information Technology Institute, University of Connecticut (silver) for "edgelab", a public/private partnership that features co-location of GE Capital executives, UCONN research faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students in a 9,000 square foot research facility on UCONN's Stamford campus that is located behind GE's firewall; edgelab is the business -- edgelab is the classroom; Charles E. Janson, Esq., Robinson & Cole LLP, (silver) for Extranets which provides lawyers and clients an opportunity to leverage information technology by sharing materials in a single, easy-to-reach location; Birgir Nilsen, President, Optimarin AS (gold) for the OptiMarin System, the first and only commercially available system for ballast water treatment; Judy Swann, Marketing, DuPont Flooring Systems, for its safety policies and procedures program; Thom Crosby, President and CEO, Pal's Sudden Service, Kingsport, Tennessee, 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence recipient in the small business category; and Sheila Carmine, Founder and Executive Director, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc., America's oldest state level quality award using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence criteria for its highest level Connecticut Leadership Award.

Missing from the picture are Tim Robb, PR Manager, DYMO Corporation (gold) for LabelWriter L.E., the only compact (5"x7") label printer that supports both PC and Macintosh platforms; and Lynda Clemmons, President and Chief Operating Officer, ElementRe Capital Products Inc. (gold) for weather derivatives, the first non-catastrophic weather risk insurance.

The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc. (CQIA) presented its 2002 entry level CQIA Innovation Prize plaques to organizations in Wethersfield, New Britain, Glastonbury and Rocky Hill. The following people were available to receive their plaques at the Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership's 15th Annual Conference on Quality and Innovation, "Celebrating Excellence Through Sharing."

From the left, Susan Fortin, Science Teacher - Tech Team, Smith Middle School (silver) in Glastonbury for the Smith Middle School Technology Team whose purpose was to develop and implement new processes taking advantage of new technology in communications, data management and reporting, as well as instructional and curriculum support, information dissemination, and staff professional development and training; Linda DeConti, CT-CLIC Webmaster, State of Connecticut, The Connecticut Licensing Information Center (silver) in Rocky Hill for strategic use of technology for quick and easy direct access to state government licensing, information and resources; Ed Klonoski, Executive Director, Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium (gold) in New Britain for the organization of public and private two and four year accredited institutions of higher education collaborating for distance learning courses and programs; Jan Hasenjager, Program Manager, Connecticut Department of Labor (gold) in Wethersfield for becoming the first agency to implement and formally practice the statewide Multiple Employer concept for incumbent worker training; Thom Crosby, President/CEO, Pal's Sudden Service in Kingsport, Tennessee, recipient of the 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National quality Award for Performance Excellence in the small business category, conference speaker; and Sheila Carmine, Founder and Executive Director, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc., America's first state-level quality award using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence criteria for its highest level Connecticut Leadership Quality Award.