Mr. Donald C. Singer is a Senior member of ASQ and a former Chair of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Division. As a Certified Specialist Microbiologist (NRCM), Don is Global Lead Manager, Microbiology R&D for GlaxoSmithKine. He has been a Malcolm Baldrige Award Examiner and a former National Director, Divisions, on the ASQ Board. He has been a member of the USP Microbiology and Sterility Assurance Committee of Experts since 2000. Don has convened and taught an ongoing series of workshops for industry at the American Society for Microbiology General Meetings. He has been a member of ASQ since 1982, is a Certified Pharmaceutical GMP Professional and has a Six Sigma Green Belt. Don is an active representative for ASQ in the USP Convention, with over 30 years of research, quality control, quality assurance, and laboratory management experience in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food, beverage, hospital products and medical device industries. He is an author and editor of books about the laboratory, including two Quality Press books, and he has been an adjunct professor of Biopharmaceutical QC Microbiology at the University of Maryland Baltimore Campus.