Don Hurd has over 40 years of experience in supporting development of applications in regulated industries, the last 22 in medical devices. With his diverse background, Mr. Hurd provides a unique insight into driving product quality and ensuring high productivity of development organizations.  Mr. Hurd is currently the Vice President of Quality and Validation Services for The Realtime Group, a contract R&D firm specialized in serving the regulated industries, primarily medical devices.  In this role, Mr. Hurd led the company to certification in both ISO 9001 and ISO 13485, maintaining certification for nearly 20 years.  In his role at Realtime, Mr. Hurd supports clients in efforts ranging from Quality Management System development, deployment, and remediation; product and development quality planning; verification and validation of products, product software, and non-product software; supplier qualification, approval, and management; transitioning product from development to manufacturing; supporting post-market vigilance / surveillance; and interfacing with ISO auditors and FDA inspectors.  Mr. Hurd has been an ASQ Certified Quality Auditor since 2009.  Mr. Hurd is active in the ASQ Biomedical Division Discussion Group and ASQ Audit Special Interest Group, holding leadership positions in both.