About

Nicholas Scott is the president of Traverse Technical Management Consulting Inc., a firm
specializing in product quality and compliance, as well as how it relates to international
trade.

Nick is a former Certification Specialist and Product Group Manager at CSA International
where he managed the certification of hundreds of products and traveled throughout
North America and Europe.

Seeing the struggles and lost opportunity many clients experience due to compliance
issues, Nick has committed himself to helping clients use standards to their advantage.
Recently he assisted clients to get products for Hazardous Locations into the
European market using ATEX Marking. He has developed training material for managing
the certification process, as well as assisted clients to incorporate compliance
requirements into their product design to reduce development costs and improve time to
market.

Currently, Nick is assisting one client to implement a quality system for medical
products and another to bring pressure devices into Canada.

Nick has been invited to give seminars on product certification to fourth year mechanical
engineering students at the University of Alberta and provide insight into product
compliance and quality systems at Grant MacEwan University, the Center for
Research and Innovation, and the Central Alberta Regional Manufacturers Association.

Nick is a member of Canadian Standards Association and participates on the Industrial
Control Equipment Technical Committee and the Electromagnetic Compatibility
Committee, as well as The Association of Science and Engineering Technology
Professionals of Alberta (ASET) and the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society
(PSES).