SAS instructors are recognized both for their outstanding teaching skills and for their standing as thought-leaders in their area of instruction. Every SAS instructor has earned internationally recognized, industry credentials as a SAS Certified Professional and undergoes a rigorous internal certification, on a chapter-by-chapter basis, for each course they teach. They’re also very interesting people.
Mark has been a JMP instructor since 1998. He applied statistics and Six Sigma methods to industrial R&D in new business ventures for 16 years before teaching for SAS Education. He holds a doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of Rochester.
One of Mark’s students said: “Mark took the extra time and effort to work one-on-one with me, ensuring that I felt comfortable utilizing the software to reap its full benefit.”
Before joining SAS, Monica was a lecturer and biology laboratory instructor for the University of Tennessee, where she earned a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology, and a master’s degree in statistics. She also had a two-year research assistantship for a project aimed at increasing undergraduate mathematical literacy through the biology curriculum, funded by the National Science Foundation. Monica began using JMP in 2001 and joined SAS in July 2007.
One of Monica’s students said: “Monica is very engaging, and I really like her style of teaching. She is interactive, responsive and treats all levels of questions with respect.”
Richard Burdick is Professor Emeritus Arizona State University and Chief Statistician at Elion Labs, an analytical testing company in Colorado. Burdick joined the Quality Engineering group at Amgen in 2005 and has worked in pharmaceutical manufacturing for the past 11 years. His research and consulting interests include comparability studies, stability data analysis, analytical method validation, quality by design process characterization, and analytical similarity for biosimilar products. He has written more than 70 journal articles and three books. Burdick is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a member of the American Society for Quality and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. He has served on the USP Statistics Expert Committee since 2010. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics from the University of Wyoming, and his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Statistics from Texas A&M University.
Gerry has nearly 40 years of teaching experience and dozens of publication credits. He has a PhD in statistics from Kansas State University and has consulted with SAS Education for more than 25 years. Gerry also serves as coordinator of the biostatistics group at West Virginia Medical School.
One of Gerry’s students said: “Gerry presented some of the best explanations and demonstrations of complex statistical concepts that I have heard in a long time. His presentations were lively and interspersed with humor.”
Wayne is President and CEO of Predictum Inc., a company that specializes in developing analytical applications ranging from virtual labs and operations intelligence systems to analytical workflows using JMP scripts and/or SAS. He has been a JMP instructor for more than 20 years and a JMP user since JMP version 3. Wayne holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto and a master's degree in engineering from the University of Waterloo with an emphasis on statistical methods.
One of Wayne’s students said: “Wayne was enthusiastic about the material and encouraged questions and comments. He has a very enjoyable presentation style and is very knowledgeable.”
Paul came to SAS in 1996 from the University of Central Florida, where he consulted and taught statistics after earning his master’s degree in statistical computing. He has more than 30 years of experience using SAS and has been teaching JMP since 1999.
One of Paul’s students said: “Paul is the best teacher I’ve ever had. He’s a well-informed and entertaining instructor with great examples, wonderful handouts and very good stories that made the subject exciting.”
Di has been a JMP user since 1998. She develops and teaches many basic and advanced statistics courses using JMP. She received a PhD in statistics in 1994 and an MS in mathematics in 1988 from Texas A&M University. Di has 17 years of experience as a statistician in the semiconductor industry, most recently at Sematech and ISMI. Her research interests include statistical process control and design of experiments, especially when data is auto-correlated, factors are random or other non-textbook situations occur.
One of Di’s students said: “Di is the best instructor I have ever experienced in my career. Her knowledge and experience make the course very valuable.”
Dan, JMP Training Program Manager, comes to SAS following 21 years with The Dow Chemical Co., where he was a Six Sigma Technology Leader and certified Master Black Belt. He was also a consulting statistician at Dow – with particular support in R&D, consumer products and emulsion polymers – and the company’s statistical software contact since 1992. Dan received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from John Carroll University and a Master of Applied Statistics from The Ohio State University.
One of Dan’s students said: “Dan is a great instructor: entertaining, engaging and very articulate.”
Richard is a man of diverse talents and experience. He’s been a FORTRAN programmer in the transportation industry, a researcher in medical use patterns and a forecaster of electric loads in the electric utility industry. Richard holds a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from California Polytechnic State University, a master’s degree in biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.
One of Richard’s students said: “Richard is a superb instructor who has great pacing, is very clear and informative, is energetic and enthusiastic, and did a terrific job presenting the material to the class.”
Douglas Robinson was an Enablement Engineer for the JMP division of SAS. For nearly 10 years he supported JMP Clinical and JMP Genomics, the life sciences software products that combine JMP graphics and SAS® analytics on the desktop. Before joining the JMP team, Robinson worked in applications support at Dharmacon and managed field applications support at Affymetrix, where he led the effort to provide experimental design and data analysis support for customers using microarrays and RNAi processes.
Dr. Lori Rothenberg has over 20 years of experience in applied statistics. She has been a JMP user since JMP3 and a trainer since JMP4. Lori is an accomplished trainer, coach and evaluator who has experience in several industries including: pharmaceutical, banking, semi-conductor, healthcare, retail and manufacturing. Lori is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt who has mentored process improvement projects for over $25 million in savings, cost avoidance and operational benefits realized in the past 6 years. Lori has managed research laboratories, a pilot production facility, an international software certification program and several training programs. She has a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Heath is an American Society of Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Engineer and the co-founder and principal consultant of Adsurgo LLC, a company specializing in advanced analytics consulting services and training for enhanced business performance. He has been a professor at the US Air Force Academy as well as a quality engineer and Six Sigma Black Belt in both biopharmaceutical manufacturing and R&D. Heath holds a master’s degree in operations research from the Air Force Institute of Technology and has used JMP since 2001.
One of Heath’s students said: “Heath was very professional and knowledgeable on both statistical analysis and the use of JMP software. He kept us on target and interjected a good amount of fun into the course when needed.”
Ledi joined SAS in 2012 after 13 years as a consultant teaching statistics. Prior to consulting, she worked at AMD and Texas Instruments. She has been using JMP since JMP 3 and loves teaching with the software. She has a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University. While at Texas Instruments, she developed the catapult as a tool for teaching Design of Experiments and Statistical Process Control. She then shared that knowledge with others to get the catapult used in many types of classes.
One of Ledi’s students said: “I want to commend Ledi on her teaching capabilities. She was able to explain information or concepts that were new to me in a way that made sense. I feel confident that I can perform the various analyses offered in JMP. Excellent instructor!”
Cy is a Senior Analyst at Predictum specializing in data analytics, empirical modeling and optimization. Prior to this, Cy worked 38 years for Procter & Gamble and in his last assignment was the Empirical Modeling leader for the company. Cy is a member of the P&G Prism Society, representing the top 1% of P&G engineers, for profitably applying his technical mastery. His contributions resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in annual savings. His career spans work in manufacturing, engineering, and R&D and included work from the molecular scale to full scale as well as material, formulation, process, packaging and consumer models. Cy graduated in 1977 from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
Jim is Principal at Adsurgo LLC and has a PhD in industrial engineering from Arizona State University with an emphasis in applied statistics. He was an award-winning professor and statistics chair at the US Air Force Academy. Jim retired from the Air Force, where he held various analytical and leadership positions throughout the Department of Defense in training, testing and evaluation, human resources, logistics, systems engineering and acquisition.
One of Jim’s students said: “Jim is top-notch instructor with vast knowledge of the subject matter. As well, his experience with DoD and military methodology, tools and policy proved especially helpful in his interaction with the class. For future training, I intend to request Jim.”
