Mark Brainard

Mark Brainard is a senior Quality Engineer for Team Industries in Minnesota , a leading provider of power-train and chassis components for recreational and industrial off-highway markets, and has been involved in "the management of imperfect geometry' since the late '60s in capacities ranging from machining, to coordinate metrology, to design. Mark is currently responsible for functional gage design, APQP activities, and training/consulting CMM operators at Team Industries among other duties. As the lead internal GD&T trainer, he has trained some 120 people across the six divisions at Team Industries since 2002 using Multi Metrics'; Smart GD&T course materials. In addition to the many hours of stand-up training and study with several of the Y14.5 committee members at various training events, Mark attributes much of his level of success to self study and working through real life problems in a high production manufacturing environment (the "school of hard knocks").

Mark is an ASME Certified Senior Level GD&T Professional, as well as a member of the ASQ, SME, and SAE.