• Working cross-functionally with clients in providing cost-effective design assistance/analysis expertise allowing new products to pass formal regulatory testing/approval the first time or by providing troubleshooting expertise so that product(s) can finally pass regulatory testing/approval(s) if there has been difficulty in doing so.
• Defining and executing Regulatory Test Plans for Information Technology Equipment (ITE), Telecommunication Terminal Equipment (TTE) and Radio Equipment (Intentional Radiators) to describe and facilitate the path needed to obtain regulatory testing and approval(s).
• Managing regulatory approval efforts in a host of countries world-wide by working with the client, test labs and the respective certifying agencies to ensure projects are completed on time and in a satisfactory manner by setting realistic expectations.

RPQ Consulting has extensive experience in the following areas:

• Strategy and regulatory test/approval plan development assuring the correct regulatory requirements are being applied to your product and correct approvals being obtained so that they will not negatively impact your product's development schedule and product release
• Engineering design, manufacturing and end-of-life processes in the areas of, but not limited to, design analysis and troubleshooting, procurement issues of compliance-critical components, incoming inspection and factory audits
• Regulatory project scheduling and management assuring regulatory testing and approvals for your product are performed and obtained at the lowest cost and consume the least amount of time so that they will not negatively impact your product's development schedule and/or product release(s)
• Obtaining appropriate regulatory approvals for your new products and assessing whether or not your redefined/modified products require re-approval to ensure that your products remain in compliance
• Managing continuing compliance issues associated with, but not limited to, product marking, compliance folders, factory audits, product redesigns/modifications and cost reductions

Where ever needed, RPQ Consulting can assist companies that either do not have or cannot allocate in-house resources for regulatory compliance throughout your product's life-cycle by efficiently, effectively and cross-functionally assessing your designs and managing your regulatory EMC and Product Safety approval processes.

RPQ Consulting treats all client information with the highest level of confidentiality and work is conducted in a fair and ethical manner to ensure clients and colleagues the highest confidence in sound business principles while achieving the most successful business performance.

Biography - Ronald Pickard received his Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York in 1989. Mr. Pickard was employed at:

• NCR Corporation from 1974 to 1987 in the design and regulatory compliance of POS Terminal System printers
• Syntellect Incorporated from 1988 to 1997, in the world-wide regulatory compliance of Automated Voice Response systems and products
• Hypercom Corporation from 1997 to 2007, in the corporate management of world-wide regulatory compliance of EFTPOS Retail Terminal and Network Systems products