Jim Hardin serves as the Associate Director of Quality at Associates of Cape Cod, Inc. since September 2022, following a position as QA Operations Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Previously, Jim held the role of Quality Assurance Manager at Associates of Cape Cod from May 2014 to February 2022, and worked as a Quality Assurance Engineer at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, where involvement included leading quality efforts on assay development teams. Additional experience includes quality engineering roles at Lockheed Martin, DePuy Spine, Sippican Inc., Taqua, and Centennial Technologies, with responsibilities ranging from quality lead in design reviews to developing quality metrics and overseeing quality departments. Jim earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 1993.