Melinda Richard, MT(ASCP) is a Crime Lab Manager with the Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory.With 25 years of laboratory experience, Mendy has management experience in clinical research, clinical hospital, pathology, and forensic laboratories. As a compliance officer and consultant, she has worked with laboratories throughout Louisiana, ensuring quality. Now as the LSPCL Project Leader for the NIJ Efficiency Improvement grant project, her efforts are focused on the efficiency of lab operations. LSPCL has begun to implement the same Lean Six Sigma principles in other departments with plans to expand the concepts to other processes and departments with whom the Crime Lab interfaces.