As of April 2nd, the Software Division has a total membership of 3,779 which is an increase of 113 to date this year, and a decrease of 35 since the 2006/2007 year began in July and up by 190 since January of 2006.

There have been 220 new ASQ Members this year that have also joined the Software Division. The average of our Division Membership is 14 years, and we have two division members who have been ASQ members for over 50 years:

Mr. Ben Marguglio, President of BW (Ben) Marguglio, Llc in Cold Spring, NY
Mr Simon D. Krasner in Altaden, CA

Thank you both for your continuous support. In addition, the following breakout shows our members’ years with ASQ:

2166 Less than 5 years
675 for 6 to 10 years
529 for 11 to 15 years
266 for 16 to 20 years
130 for over 20 years

Below are some extracts of member types, top states, top sections, companies represented and sustaining member companies.

Counts by Membership Type
MEMBERTYPE	Count
ASSOCIATE	76
FELLOW	20
FORUM	47
ORGANIZATION	10
ORGMEMBER	13
REGULAR	1884
SENIOR	1669
STUDENT	35
SUSTAINING	25

Top 15 States / Provinces
STATE Field	NumberOfDups
CA	458
TX	234
MA	200
PA	186
IL	162
FL	153
NJ	150
VA	148
NY	139
ON	128
MD	116
MI	108
WI	104
OH	92
NC	91
GA	88

Top 10 Sections
Section Number	Number Of Members
2500	189
0100	138
0613	118
0511	112
1402	98
WAIVE*	96
0505	92
0606	77
1502	76
1203	76
1201	73

* Note that 96 Software Division Members are Forum Members not belonging to a section.

Top10 Companies
BUSINESS	Number of Members
Raytheon	13
ASQ	11
Cardinal Health	10
Medtronic	6
Motorola	5
GE Healthcare	5
Lawrence Livermore National Lab	5
Amgen	5
Siemens Medical Solutions	5
Boston Scientific	5

Software Division Sustaining Member Companies
SECTNUM	BUSINESS	CITY	STATE
0100	Analogic Corp.	Peabody	MA
0100	General Dynamics C4 Systems	Needham Heights	MA
0300	Credit Suisse Americas	New York	NY
0303	Advanced Acoustic Concepts	Hauppauge	NY
0308	Pfizer, Inc.	New London	CT
0309	Qualiware Inc.	Armonk	NY
0402	Span International	Markham	ON
0502	VIPS	Towson	MD
0506	Bentley Systems Inc	Exton	PA
0511	US Office of Personnel Management	Washington	DC
0607	Nike, Inc.	Beaverton	OR
0613	Covansys	Santa Clara	CA
0701	PredictionProbe Inc	Irvine	CA
0704	Guidon Performance Solutions LLC	Mesa	AZ
0705	Bechtel SAIC Co., LLC	Las Vegas	NV
1208	Intellisys Technology LLC	Oak Brook	IL
1400	JTI Systems, Inc	Rio Rancho	NM
1502	Checkfree Corporation	Norcross	GA
1506	BlueCross BlueShield of Florida	Jacksonville	FL
1512	DRS Tactical Systems, Inc.	Melbourne	FL
1515	NCCI Holdings Inc.	Boca Raton	FL
2500	Credit Suisse	Glattbrugg Zurich
2500	Credit Suisse, EMEA	London
2500	Credit Suisse	Singapore
2900	BankMuscat	Muscat