AI powered Requirements Management

Chad Kymal is the CTO and founder of Omnex Inc., an international consulting, training, and software organization headquartered in the United States.

Chad is also on the ISO/TC 176, ISO/TC 207, PC283 committees for ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management), ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management) and ISO 45001 (Health and Safety Management Systems.

Chad has published numerous papers and six books about Management Standards and Quality. He is the author of three books on Quality Standards including two on the Auditing Process. Chad has published a book on Integrated Management Systems and ISO 9001:2015 Auditing with the American Society for Quality.

Chad is the founder of AQSR, a global registrar that routinely provided integrated audits in QMS, EMS, and OHSMS. Chad has conducted hundreds of audits in many different sectors from Aerospace to Steel to Distributors to Electronics and Semiconductors in North America, Asia, and Europe in the last 20 years.

Omnex Futurepast an accredited ANAB registrar is a part of the Omnex companies that focuses on Safety, Security, and Sustainability standards registration.

Chad is a member of ISO TC 176, TC 207, Functional Safety and AS 9115 for Software Quality. He is a Principal Assessor and provisional trainer for ASPICE.

Nikhil Unnikrishnan is a Consultant with experience in Process Improvement, Engineering Design & Manufacturing in the Automotive and Renewable energy sector. Mr. Unnikrishnan is a Certified Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma Methodologies (CLSSGB) and also Certified Quality Process Analyst (CQPA). He is an Exemplar Global certified Lead Auditor for IATF 16949:2016 and ISO 9001:2015 and has been performing Gap Analysis, Implementation and Internal Audits for numerous Tier 1 and 2 companies improving their existing processes to drive continual improvement through risk based analysis. He has been involved with the Integration of Automotive SPICE with IATF 16949:2016 and ISO 26262 with experience in setting up integrated management systems incorporating the Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety, Social Responsibility and Information security Management Systems.

Among his competencies, Nikhil is certified to and has experience in and the Automotive Core Tools (APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA and SPC), Effective Problem Solving including coordination of supplier corrective actions and sourcing strategies.

He also has experience working on engineering development and management of research-based prototype off-road buggies and hybrid power vehicles leading some of them from concept to prototype build and terrain testing. Earlier, he has worked as a research engineer in the field of Mechanics of Solids, Solar and Wind energy designing experimental concepts, its setup and seeing through till its full implementation.

John Stawarz brings many years of experience applying IT technology to Automotive engineering, applying it throughout the vehicle product development process from design (mechanical and electrical), CAE, vehicle testing, to manufacture and assembly. He is knowledgeable in MBSE, mCAD, eCAD, CAE, software, testing, and decision software (e.g. lessons learned, 8D analysis, issues and change management). He has worked for both an OEM and a tier 1 supplier as IT portfolio manager, engineering manager (requirements, change, risk), and technical specialist. Additionally, as an entrepreneur, he started a company implementing a complete virtual hardware-in-the-loop system. He is versed in many aspects of IT ranging from realtime / control systems to data base design / implementation and enterprise architecture. He brings this knowledge and experience to Omnex to specifically work on applying emerging IT capabilities (specifically AI technology) throughout the product development process.