Barry Craner

Barry Craner is director of quality assurance for Lipid Sciences, Inc. and is an ASQ Fellow.  He currently serves as chair of the Biomedical Division, and in 2005-06 served as vice-chair of discussion groups for the Biomedical Division. He is past co-chair of the Biomedical Division’s Northern California Discussion Group, and past chair of the San Diego Section. Barry is also a past deputy regional director for the Southern California ASQ Region.

Barry has nearly 30 years of experience in the management of scientists and engineers in applications in medicine, aerospace, internet technologies and medical devices.  He has written several design control systems for companies, and consulted in the areas of reliability engineering and quality system development.  He audited many medical device companies from first-, second- and third-party perspectives.  His advanced degrees are in cardiac physiology and business management with a computer information systems emphasis. He has the equivalent of an electrical engineering minor.  He is an ASQ-certified Quality Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Quality Auditor and Biomedical Auditor, and was on the founding team to create the Body of Knowledge and exam questions for the ASQ CQA-Biomedical Auditor certification program.

Barry has delivered numerous papers and presentations on topics such as calibration systems, management auditing, software quality assurance, risk management and managing contract design.  He also teaches classes in risk management, design control and auditing. In 2006, the FDA selected Barry as the sole industry representative to speak on “An Industry Perspective” at the FDA Pacific Region Centennial Celebration.