Welcome to Lee Beaumont's Home Page!

I am retired from the Bell Laboratories Technical Community of Lucent Technologies, formerly part of AT&T where I was developing Content Networking products. Now I run the Simply Quality consultancy. Visit my Google Profile for more information.

Publications

Content Networking: Architecture, Protocols, and Practice, By Markus Hofmann and Leland Beaumont, Morgan Kaufmann, Available February 2005, Hardback, 352 pages, ISBN 1-55860-834-6.

Beaumont, Leland R. ISO 9001, the Standard Interpretation : the international standard for quality management systems. 3rd ed. completely rev. Middletown, NJ (P.O. Box 21, Middletown 07748) : Simply Quality, c2002. 180 p. : ill.; 28 cm. Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: 2001096635 ISBN 0-963003-6-2.

Beaumont, Leland R. ISO 9001, the Standard Interpretation : the international standard system for assuring product and service quality. 2nd ed. completely rev. Middletown, NJ (P.O. Box 21, Middletown 07748) : Simply Quality, c1995. 125 p. : ill.; 28 cm. Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: TS156 .B4365 1995 ISBN: 0-9636003-7-0.

Beaumont, Leland R. ISO 9001, the Standard Companion : a readable interpretation of the International Standard System for assuring product and service quality. Middletown, NJ (P.O. Box 21, Middletown 07748) : Simply Quality,

• Third Edition, 1996. 44p, ISBN: 0-9636003-8-9
• Second Edition, 1993 26p. ISBN: 0-9636003-9-7 (Note, the full text is now available on-line!)
• First Edition,1992. 16 p. ; 28 cm. Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: TS156 .B436 1992 ISBN: 0-9636003-9-7

Metrics - a Practical Example, chapter in The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development, The First Complete Handbook for the Product Development Professional: John Wiley & Sons, 1996, ISBN: 0471-14189-5

The Plan, Do, Check, Act Personality - Published in the June, 2003 issue of Quality Digest Magazine.

M. Hofmann, L. Beaumont: Open Pluggable Edge Services - An Architecture for Networked Content Services, IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 11, Number 1, pp. 67-73, January/February, 2007.

Technique for content delivery over the internet -- US Patent Number 6,959,333.

Leisure Time

• Visit my Google Profile for more information.
• I am a member of the Jersey Shore Touring Society Bicycle Club where I enjoy riding my Merlin and more recently my Vision recumbent.
• I enjoy taking photographs with my Nikon D50 camera, ensuring accurate color, and publishing the better ones. I use this calibration chart to manually set white balance.
• I have scanned image files of the Hearing Family Photo.
• I am a contributor to Wikipedia.
• I am a member of the Atlantic Sea Kayak club, have written some articles for their newsletter, and enjoy my surf kayak.
• A StrengthsFinder analysis recently identified my five major strengths.
• I am studying Self-determination theory and pursuing Authentic Happiness.
• I remain calm even when the "Service Engine Soon" light comes on in my car.
• I have created a few Amazon.com "listmania" book lists:
  • Knowing yourself,
  • Emotional Competency,
  • Creating new products,
  • Content Networking, and
  • Quality Management, and
  • Inquiry, Evidence, and Argument
• A more extensive list of books I own is on-line at the Library Thing.
• I have designed and developed several web sites:
  • www.simplyquality.org - helping organizations understand the ISO 9001 quality management standard.
  • www.content-networking.com - companion web site to the book on Content Networking.
  • www.joyofshaving.com - preserving the tradition of shaving with a mug, soap, and brush
  • www.serviceenginesoon.org - helping people use their car's on board diagnostic system
  • www.emotionalcompetency.com - helping people develop essential social skills.
  • www.preservingholmdel.com - providing information on the future of the Bell Labs facility in Holmdel
  • www.beingthin.org - helping people manage their weight by understanding calories, sugar, and hunger
  • www.BeautifulMountainImages.com - photographic images and web site designs.
• Visit me on a variety of networking-oriented sites:
  • TED - Technology, Entertainment, and Design
• His family tree is growing on-line at WeRelate.
• I believe being thin is the  healthiest choice.
• I enjoy reading Time Magazine and Scientific American.
• I enjoy shaving with a mug and brush.
• I enjoy a discussion that follows the fair rules of evidence and argument, including logic and the scientific method, rather than fallacies or any mistake in reasoning.
• I am interested in emotional competency and  wrote a paper applying the five factor model of personality.
• Everyone enjoys a good laugh, especially when its from a Dilbert cartoon.
• I am learning Java programming. Here are a few Applets:
  • Show the position of Jupiter's Moons
  • Write some ISO 9001 procedure documents.

Background

• Grew up in Bucks County Pennsylvania.
• Graduated from Council Rock High School
• Hold a BS in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. I am a member of the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity where I had breakfast with Harold Wilson.
• Hold an MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University
• Member of the American Society for Quality, and
• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

The Family

• My wife is Eileen Beaumont.
• My brother is Richard Beaumont who plays bass for Tuesday's Gone
• A Memorial to Paul A. Spudic
• A Memorial to Minnie Roberta Bickel Beaumont McDermott

Thanks, and Keep in Touch!

I can be contacted via E-mail at lee@simplyquality.org