Metrology Today Podcast S3E9: Tony Hamilton

On today's episode we have Tony Hamilton, here is a little more information on Tony: Tony Hamilton has more than 20 years of experience in the metrology field. He received his technical training in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear qualified electronics technician. During his six-year stint, he served four years on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), qualifying as a reactor operator, shutdown reactor operator, and reactor technician.

After leaving the Navy in 1997, Tony worked as a nuclear instrument technician at the Surry Power Station in Virginia. In the summer of 2000, he accepted a position as a process instrument technician for Eli Lilly and Company. With a strong background in physics and math, Tony was asked to assist in the Company’s primary calibration laboratory during a restructuring, which began in the summer of 2002. This position became permanent by the end of that year. In 2006, he became the primary metrologist over pressure and vacuum measurement systems, and in 2008 he was promoted to the position of engineer. Tony has calibration experience in many types of water chemistry, electromagnetics – dc/low frequency, mechanical, and thermodynamic measurements. As a metrologist, he was also responsible for the validation, work instruction, maintenance, and training.

Tony has more than 16 years of experience using the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty (GUM) in the development of complex uncertainty budgets. As of June 2021, Tony accepted a quality engineer role as the quality assurance representative for the Company’s primary calibration lab, which has been accredited by the ISO/IEC 17025 since 2008.

In addition to his accomplishments at Lilly, Tony is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) since 2010, as well as a member of its Measurement Quality Division. He is qualified as an ASQ Certified Calibration Technician and Certified Quality Auditor and is a contributing author to the ASQ Metrology Handbook, 3rd Edition, as well as the 5th Edition of the NCSLI RP - 6, Recommended Practice for Calibration Quality Systems for the Healthcare Industries (2022). Tony earned his Bachelor of Science in business management from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2005.

Tony was accepted and trained as a calibration assessor in 2018, becoming a lead assessor the following year. He is qualified to assess calibration facilities to the ISO/IEC 17025:2017, ANSI/NCSL Z540-1-1994 (R2002), and ANSI/NCSL Z540.3-2006 (R2013), as well as ISO 15195 and its dependent standards, ISO 15193, 15194, 17511, and 18153.