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In a fast-moving, highly competitive world marketplace, organizations need to change to stay alive. For commercial organizations, this means they must remain profitable. For public sector organizations, it means they must deliver ‘best value’ services.

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The objective of this professional website is to provide information about Eng. Lina Qudah's professional capabilities, key competencies, reference to her previous work and her contact details.
Eng. Lina Qudah started her profession in quality management in 1995 when she joined the Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology (JISM) and worked for the product certification department; she developed the Jordanian quality mark at that time. Ms. Qudah then moved to work in the Laboratory Accreditation field in 1997, within the same organization, she developed the Jordanian Laboratory Accreditation System in 1999 according to the international requirements ISO/IEC Guide 58 (at that time; now it is replaced by ISO/IEC 17011); she has also become approved trainer and lead assessor for the accreditation of laboratories according to the international standard ISO/IEC 17025.
She moved to the United Arab Emirates and joined Dubai Municipality (DM) in 2002 to work in the field of accreditation. She has established the accreditation system in Dubai according to the international standard ISO/IEC 17011 and led the transformation of the system to result in the establishment of the Dubai Accreditation Center (DAC) in 2005; the first accreditation body in the Gulf region to comply fully with the international standard ISO/IEC 17011. She led the successful achievements of DAC for three years; some of which are mentioned in Viewpoint Page.
She has become a registered trainer and lead assessor for Dubai Municipality to the international standards ISO/IEC 17020, ISO/IEC 17021, ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO/IEC Guide 65. She is also an IRCA Certified QMS 2008 Auditor to ISO 9001:2008. Ms. Qudah has conducted several training courses since 1997 to date in fields of quality management, conformity assessment practices, accreditation of testing/calibration laboratories and inspection bodies, strategic planning and performance management. She stepped up with her level of knowledge to the international level in accreditation and conformity assessment bodies due to her membership and affiliations to a number of international committees in the field of accreditation such as the IAF technical committee, the ILAC Accreditation Committee, the ILAC Proficiency Testing Consultative Group and the Joint Development Support Committee. As an appreciation of her distinguished work, she has been awarded the 'Distinguished Administrative Employee' of Dubai Government Departments for the year 2005 by the Dubai Ruler H.H. Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum within the eighth round of Dubai Government Excellence Program.
Eng. Qudah is workings now as a Regional Manager, Product Assessment and Certification, Middle East/ Asia in Exova. In addition to her responsibilities as a regional product certification manager in Exova, Eng. Lina Qudah delivers training courses on quality management, conformity assessment practices, accreditation to labs, inspection bodies and assessors. She also works as a lead assessor for the Emirates National Accreditation System (ENAS) and Dubai Accreditation Center (DAC) for labs, inspection bodies and certification bodies. In Jordan, she is working on a one-year assignment with the USAID Water Re-Use and Environmental Conservation Project to qualify three waste water labs of Jordanian universities to achieve accreditation according to the ISO/IEC 17025 requirements and other relevant Jordan Accreditation System (JAS) requirements. Eng. Lina Qudah is also recruited as a senior regional expert by UNIDO and AIDMO to act as the team leader for a group of 4 regional experts of the national accreditation bodies of Tunisia, UAE, Egypt and Jordan to carry out a comprehensive mapping and capacity assessment of national accreditation systems for the 9 countries, which are members of Arab Accreditation Cooperation (ARAC), and preparation of development roadmaps for each country to achieve international recognition.
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