Biomed/Biotech SIG - SBA-Supported Small Business Entrepreneurship  

“SBA Contracting Programs and 

Federal Supports to Small Business Entrepreneurship”

To be presented by

Mr. Stanley Y. Fujii 

Veteran Procurement Liaison

US Small Business Administration (SBA; www.sba.gov)

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

6:00 – 6:20 PM – Networking; Pizza/drink 

6:20 – 8:30 PM – Program (intermission at 7:40 pm)

8:30 – 8:45 PM – Door-prizes drawing; Networking

Online Registration site: https://asq509.org/ht/d/DoSurvey/i/35817

Open to Public – 

$5: non-ASQ members to cover pizza/drink cost; 

Free: ASQ Members, MJ-DC Members, veterans, senior citizens, students, interns, residents, postdocs, FDA Commissioner’s Fellows, and current job-seekers 

Location: Kelly’s Deli Conference Center, 7519 Standish Place, Rockville (Derwood, for GPS user), MD 20855

Registration Deadline: Please register by Wednesday noon, March 13, 2013.  

Question: Please contact Dr. C.J. George Chang, Chair of Biomed/Biotech SIG, ASQ509; [email protected] or 240-793-8425 (cell).

Driving directions: By Cars: From I-270 (N or S bound): Take Exit 9A and exit from the FIRST right exit; turn left (east) onto Shady Grove Dr.; turn right (south) onto Rockville Pike (Route 355); turn left (east) onto East Gude Dr.; turn left (north) immediately onto Crabb’s Branch Dr.; turn left (west) immediately onto Standish Place. The first building on your right side is 7519 Standish Place; open parking). The venue is on the first floor with its entrance opposite to the left side of building main entrance. By Metro trains: Off from Red Line Shady Grove Station, and take RideOn Route 59 TOWARD ROCKVILLE and get off from “Calhoun Place” stop. Standish Place is next to the Bus stop. Our venue is within 2 min of walking distance from the stop.

Summary:  

This presentation will provide an overview of the SBA’s Contracting Programs and Services as they relate to Federal assistance to Small Business Entrepreneurship in general.  In the first half of our program, we will focus our discussion on Federal procurement programs, policies, achievements, issues, and challenges; programs to be discussed include 8(a) business development for women, minority, veterans, young entrepreneurs, 50+ etc.  We will then move our focus in our second half of the program to specifically the Federal assistance to our Veteran Business Community.  Open discussion pertaining to Federal assistance to our Business Community at large is very welcome.

Presenter’s Bio:  

Mr. Stanley Fujii serves as the Veterans Procurement Liaison for the U.S. Small Business Administration’s - Office of Veterans Business Development.  He has served as a Senior Program Analyst with the SBA’s HUBZone Program Office where small businesses in high-unemployment, low-income areas can receive an economic boost from the HUBZone contracting program.  Mr. Fujii a past Warranted Contracting Officer and have served both the Washington Metropolitan Area District Office and the Santa Ana District Office as the Assistant District Director for the 8(a) Business Development Program.  During part of 2007 and 2008, he served as the Acting, Deputy Associate Administrator for SBA’s Office of Business Development overseeing the 8(a) BD and SDB Program nationally.  Other duties included being a Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR), Program Manager and overseeing the electronic modernization of the 8(a) Business Development Management Information System and the HUBZone application and repository databases. 

 

Before joining the SBA, Mr. Fujii worked for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) at the Defense Contract Administration Services Region – Los Angeles (DCASR-LA), now known as DCMDW, Defense Contract Administration Services Management Area (DCASMA) – El Segundo and DCASMA - Santa Ana, now known as Defense Contract Management Commands (DCMC).  At DCASMA Santa Ana, he worked as a Contract Price/Cost Analyst.  Stanley is a long standing member of the National Contract Management Association (NCMA); the past Ad Hoc Web Sub-Committee Chair for the Federal Asian Pacific American Council (FAPAC) and on the board of the planning committee for the Annual Cherry Blossom Freedom Walk - held at the Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism during World War II.

Mr. Fujii is an Eagle Scout and graduated from California State University-Dominquez Hills.  He is the current Executive Director for the Asian American Government Executive Network (AAGEN, www.aagen.org) and the (acting) VP for Strategic Outreach with the Pan Pacific American Leaders and Mentors Organization (PPALM; http://ppalm.org/home.aspx). 

This event is cosponsored by the Monte Jade Science and Technology Association of Greater Washington (www.MonteJadeDC.org).