QMS2GO authors

Everything published in the QMS2GO Learning Hub is written or reviewed by the people who build and run the platform. QMS2GO is the audit-ready quality management system for ISO 9001:2015 manufacturers, founded in 2024 and headquartered in Ruston, Louisiana. The two co-founders below are responsible for the guidance published on the site, and each article carries the name of the author accountable for it.

Quality management is a field where bad advice is expensive. A missed clause requirement, a records trail that cannot be reconstructed, or a supplier approval that was never documented all surface at the worst possible moment, which is during a certification or customer audit. That is why every article here is attributed to a named person with auditing or engineering accountability for it, rather than published anonymously.

Onega Ulanova

CEO and Co-Founder, QMS2GO. IRCA Certified Lead Auditor, ISO 9001 · Six Sigma Black Belt · former American Petroleum Institute (API) lead auditor · MS Engineering and Technology Management · Executive MBA

Onega Ulanova is a quality management systems strategist with two decades of experience implementing standards, auditing manufacturers and guiding organizations through certification. She is the CEO and co-founder of QMS2GO, the audit-ready quality management system for ISO 9001:2015 manufacturers. Her work is grounded in a specific question: not only how to implement a standard, but why the requirement exists in the first place.

That foundation is academic as well as practical. Onega holds a Bachelor of Science in Standardization, Metrology and Certification, where she studied how standards and specifications are developed, the discipline of metrology, and the role certification plays in trade and supply chains. She applied it early, building quality management systems at a software company and at a silica processing plant before immigrating to the United States. She then earned a Master of Science in Engineering and Technology Management from Louisiana Tech University, concentrating on industrial engineering and operations management, which gave her the analytical grounding to turn QMS theory into measurable business results.

What Onega writes about

  • ISO 9001:2015 auditing, implementation and certification readiness
  • API Spec Q1 quality management for oil and gas suppliers
  • Lead auditor practice: audit planning, findings and closure
  • Standardization, metrology and certification fundamentals
  • Internal audit programs and management review
  • Supplier evaluation, approval and flow-down requirements
  • Corrective action, CAPA and continuous improvement
  • Six Sigma and data-driven process improvement

Read the full Onega Ulanova biography · LinkedIn

Konstantin Dolgan, Ph.D.

CTO and Co-Founder, QMS2GO. Ph.D. Materials and Infrastructure Systems Engineering, Louisiana Tech University · Certified New Product Development Professional (NPDP) · former R&D engineer inside an ISO 9001 certified, API 610 pump manufacturer · developer of over 1,000 physical products

Konstantin Dolgan, Ph.D., is the CTO and co-founder of QMS2GO, the audit-ready quality management system for ISO 9001:2015 manufacturers. He is a product development engineer by training and by trade, and he approaches quality management the way he approaches any hard engineering problem: as a system with inputs, constraints, failure modes and evidence that it works.

His introduction to quality management was not a consulting engagement. It was a job. As an R&D mechanical and hydraulic engineer at DXP Enterprises, he designed and optimized API 610 centrifugal pumps for oil and gas service, running computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis on vibration, structural stress and fatigue, and authoring the engineering reports and internal standards behind those designs. That work happened inside a certified quality management system, which means he lived the parts of ISO 9001 that engineers actually feel: design inputs and outputs, design review and verification, controlled drawings and revisions, material traceability, nonconforming product, and the discipline of proving with records that the pump you shipped is the pump you designed. He has been on the receiving end of a quality system rather than only writing procedures for one, and that shapes how QMS2GO treats the shop floor.

What Konstantin writes about

  • Quality data architecture and end-to-end traceability, from customer order to material certificate
  • New product development and stage-gate design control under ISO 9001:2015 clause 8.3
  • Engineering design inside a certified QMS: design inputs, outputs, review and verification
  • Design for manufacturability and shop-floor usability
  • Documented information control, revisions and approvals under clause 7.5
  • Electronic records, electronic signatures and retention
  • AI applied to quality management, constrained to verbatim clause text
  • ERP and accounting integrations, including QuickBooks
  • Migration off spreadsheets and shared drives without losing the audit trail
  • Root cause analysis and risk-based thinking from a failure-mechanisms background

Read the full Konstantin Dolgan, Ph.D. biography · LinkedIn

Editorial approach

Articles cite ISO 9001:2015 clause text verbatim rather than paraphrasing it, and describe what registrars and customer auditors actually ask to see. QMS2GO does not issue certificates, because certification is granted by accredited certification bodies after a successful audit. Where an article describes a QMS2GO feature, it says so plainly, so readers can separate standard requirements from product capability.

Guidance is drawn from three sources: the text of the standard itself, audits our authors have personally conducted or been audited against, and implementation work with manufacturers, distributors and quality consultants. Where a practice is a convention rather than a requirement, the article says so, so readers never build a system around something the standard does not ask for.

Published articles are reviewed when the underlying standard, certification practice or product behavior changes. Corrections are made in place rather than by republishing under a new URL, so links shared inside a quality team keep working.

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