Rob Lievense is a Senior Systems Engineer at JMP. He works with federal government customers showing them how to utilize JMP to extract useful information from data. He is also an active professor of statistics at Grand Valley State University (GVSU), located in Allendale, Michigan. Prior to joining JMP, Lievense served as Research Fellow of Global Statistics at Perrigo where he led a group that supported the consumer health care research and development department with statistical analysis, data visualization, advanced modeling, date-driven Quality by Design for product development and structured experimental design planning. Lievense has more than 20 years of experience in the applied statistics industry and 10 years of experience using JMP. He has presented at major conferences including JMP Discovery Summit, where he served on the Steering Committee, and the annual conference of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. Lievense holds a BS in Applied Statistics and an MS in Biostatistics from GVSU. He currently serves as Member of the Biostatistics Curriculum Development Committee for GVSU and has his Six Sigma Black Belt Certification.