Baskar Kotte is the President and Founder of Quality Systems Enhancement, Inc., based in Roswell, Georgia. The firm specializes in auditing, consulting, and training across quality management, occupational health and safety, environmental management, energy management, and operational excellence methodologies.

He brings more than four decades of expertise spanning the environment, quality, manufacturing, and operations fields, and has assisted more than 850 facilities in pursuing ISO-related certifications.

Experience

Baskar has worked across a broad range of sectors, including aerospace, automotive, casting, corrugated packaging, environmental, forest products, foundries, machine tools, medical devices, plastics, pulp and paper, service, telecommunications, and textiles.

His operational specializations include the training and implementation of operational excellence, statistical problem-solving, and customer satisfaction measurement, as well as Lean, Six Sigma, the Malcolm Baldrige framework, supplier development, and sustainability initiatives.

Standards development and technical committees

In 1987, Baskar was a member of the core group involved in writing ISO 9001 — the first edition of the standard that most of the manufacturing world now certifies to. He founded QSE five years later, and has spent every year since helping companies implement standards he helped shape.

Baskar is an original and active participant in the U.S. Technical Advisory Groups for ISO/TC 176 (Quality Management Standards), ISO/TC 207 (Environmental Management Standards), and ISO/TC 242 (Energy Management Standards). He served as Chair of Subcommittee 3 for the U.S. TAG ISO/TC 176 and as liaison to the International Accreditation Forum.

As a U.S. delegate, he contributed to the development of several international standards:

  • ISO 10019 — Guidelines for the selection of quality management system consultants
  • ISO 10004 — Quality management: customer satisfaction monitoring
  • ISO 10008 — Guidelines for business-to-consumer electronic transactions

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
  • Master of Business Administration in Finance and Management, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana

Certifications

  • Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)
  • Certified Quality Auditor (CQA)
  • Exemplar Global Certified QMS Lead Auditor

Areas of expertise

Baskar's standards experience covers a wide spectrum, including:

  • ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001, ISO 15189, ISO 15378, and IATF 16949
  • ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 45001, ISO 22000, ISO 27001, ISO 50001, and ISO 55001
  • AS 9100, TL 9100, Global Gap, and FSSC 22000
  • FDA Gluten Free Labeling, HACCP, and related standards

Professional memberships

  • Senior member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ); former Standards Committee Chair of the ASQ Quality Audit Division
  • Member of TAPPI
  • Associate member of AICC

Notable achievements

  • Recipient of the ISO/ASQ Conference Best Speaker Award
  • Co-Convener of the Conformity Assessment Liaison Group for ISO/TC 176 (2010-2014)
  • Member of the TC 176 Chairman's Strategic Advisory Group (2010-2014)
  • Co-Convener of the ISO 9000 Advisory Group (2010-2014)
  • Led the ISO 55001:2014 Asset Management System development for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport