Joseph Brun was hired as quality assurance manager at JP Sercel Associates (JPSA), a Manchester, N.H., maker of laser materials processing workstations. Brun has more than 30 years of experience in the quality field and has held inspection, quality engineering and management positions with startups and established companies including, most recently, Dynamics Research Corp. of Andover, Mass., and Kokusai Semiconductor Equipment Corp., based in San Jose, Calif. As JPSA's quality manager, he will concentrate on ISO 9001:2000 quality management standard compliance. Brun has a business degree from Daniel Webster College and is certified by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) as a quality manager, quality auditor and quality engineer and in production and inventory management by the Association for Operations Management (APICS).