Last year was WEIRD for FSOs… I have been an FSO for over 15 years and the “world of COVID” brought on changes that I had never seen before! They included the following: No On-site Inspections: After March 2020, DCSA halted on-site meetings (indefinitely) and replaced their on-site inspections with Continuous Monitor- ing or Meaningful … Read more

FSO PRO is here to help! The difference between an FSO who gets Superior ratings and the one who gets less is not as big as you may think! Success is the cumulative result of consistent actions and habits. During the first few moments of the Continuous Monitoring phone call with your DCSA Rep, he … Read more

FSO PRO is here to help! JK… This is NOT the last of the DISS talk from FSO PRO. In fact, as of this week, the Visit Access Request function has moved from JPAS to DISS. I got a panicked text yesterday from a member of Executive Management who forgot to tell me they had … Read more

It is time to start using DISS and FSO PRO is here to help! You may be getting tired of hearing about DISS from us but trust us, this topic is not going away anytime soon. In fact, we attended a record number (for us) of Continuous Monitoring phone calls (the telecon version of a … Read more

The Bliss of DISS—Part 2! It is time to start using DISS, & FSO PRO is here to help! Maybe you don’t attend as many SVAs or Continuous Monitoring meetings as we do, but DCSA is still making it pretty clear, they want FSOs to start migrating to DISS more and more. They have already … Read more

This is not a drill folks! It’s time to get your DISS Account in high gear! Here at FSO PRO, we attend a lot of SVAs… even during a quarantine, that has not changed. While in-person SVAs are still on-hold indefinitely, the Continuous Monitoring teleconferences are popping up left and right! (Glad I watched that … Read more

Who would have thought that I would be watching a YouTube video about how to NOT look like a troll during Zoom Meetings? Not me, but here we are! (By the way, natural light is the way to go for streaming video meetings. Since my office has no windows – troll, it is!) The last … Read more

Who could have seen all this coming?! Not us, but we hope you are staying healthy and safe! By now, you have all (hopefully) completed your NISS PSI Survey. Since a lot of us are stuck at home – what else do you have to do? (Sure – you can binge watch “Picard” or “Tiger … Read more

Where Do You See Yourself in Three years? Before you start filling our Director’s inbox with answers like paying off your student loan, running a full marathon or sipping mai-tais under a tiki hut, this question is from DCSA, so the answer is a little different. (Of course, that tiki-hut one sounds pretty awesome.) If … Read more

There is only one month until 2020 and I say let’s wrap up this challenging (they changed EVERYTHING!) year in a strong way! Here is your own “Twelve Days of a FSO’s Christmas” (or, whatever holiday you prefer. We are going with the classic song here, not mandating your holiday preference)