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William Brenneman, Chair
William Brenneman is a Principal Statistician at the Procter & Gamble Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. His current work at P&G is focused on providing statistical support within the Beauty Care business unit. William works on a wide range of projects that deal with statistics applications in the areas of design of experiments, robust parameter design, reliability engineering, statistical process control, computer experiments, and general statistical thinking. William has also been instrumental in the development of an in-house statistics curriculum that provides statistics training to P&G scientists and engineers from around the globe.
William received a Ph.D. degree in Statistics at the University of Michigan (2000), an MS in Mathematics from the University of Iowa (1989) and a BA in Mathematics and Secondary Education from Tabor College (1987). His research interests include experimental design and analysis, reliability engineering, statistical process control and robust parameter design. William is a member of the American Statistical Association, the American Society for Quality and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has served as Senior Editor of the newsletter for the American Statistical Association Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences and as referee for several statistics journals.
William also has seven years of experience as an educator, teaching mathematics at Iowa Mennonite High School (1989-1993, basketball and baseball coach) and at Hesston College (1993-1996). Away from work he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children. He also likes to run, bike, swim, and play various sports. |
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William Brenneman
Statistics Department
The Procter & Gamble Company
11511 Reed Hartman Highway
Cincinnati, OH 45241
Phone (513) 626-3232
Fax (513) 277-7528 brenneman.wa@pg.com
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Bill Rodebaugh, Chair-Elect
Bill has almost twenty years of corporate experience with refining, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. Over a decade ago, Bill began his work in the field of Six Sigma as a part of the AlliedSignal launch. As he was earning his MBB certification at AlliedSignal, Bill ventured into Production Management as Superintendent of a large chemical facility in Philadelphia. Wanting to combine his experiences, Bill became a Six Sigma consultant, training, mentoring, and building programs both in the US and abroad. He then directed a Six Sigma program at a US chemical company before venturing into an IT Six Sigma role in the Pharmaceutical industry.
Bill’s career experience includes positions in and consultancies with both large and small companies. He has led managers and directors as well as shift forepersons and hourly employees. Bill has experience within operations, IT, supply chain, and financial functions as a leader, contributor, or project consultant. Bill’s training experience consists of bringing Six Sigma and Lean concepts from the shop floor to the executive level.
Bill holds an MBA and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University. He is also a Certified Quality Engineer. |
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Bill Rodebaugh
1031 Granite St
Philadelphia, PA 19124
Phone: (215) 439-1547 billrsbti@aol.com
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Christine Anderson-Cook , Past Chair
Christine has been a Research Scientist and Project Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico since 2004. Previously, she was a faculty member at two universities for more than 10 years. She was an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Prior to that, Dr. Anderson-Cook was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Christine has a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Waterloo, a Masters of Science in Statistics from the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Education from the University of Western Ontario, and a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.
Christine’s research interests include design and analysis of industrial experiments, response surface methodology, system reliability, variable selection, Bayesian and graphical methods. She has also collaborated with engineers and scientists on a diverse set of research problems in industry, government and academia.
Christine is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Quality Technology, and Quality and Reliability Engineering International. Dr. Anderson-Cook is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Statistics Education and the Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry Journal. She is a regular columnist for the Quality Progress Statistics Roundtable. She also served as Chair of the Section of Quality and Productivity in the American Statistical Association. |
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Christine Anderson-Cook
Los Alamos National Laboratory
P.O. Box 1663
Los Alamos, NM 87544
505-606-0347 c-and-cook@lanl.gov
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Adam Pintar, Treasurer
Adam was born in Oklahoma and grew up in southeast Kansas. He earned a B.S. and M.S in Mathematics from Pittsburg State University in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He also earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State University in 2007 and 2010, respectively. At Pittsburg State University, Adam served as a Teaching Assistant, and at Iowa State University, he served as both a Teaching Assistant and a Statistical Consultant. Adam has also served as a Student Guest Scholar and a Student Intern in the Statistical Sciences Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the summers of 2008 and 2009, respectively. Adam has been a Mathematical Statistician with NIST's Statistical Engineering Division since October 12, 2010.
Adam's research interests include Model Selection, Bayesian Methods, Experiment Design, Statistical Computing, Robust Parameter Design, Measurement Uncertainty, and Environmental Statistics. More generally however, he is genuinely interested in applying statistical methods and thinking to real problems.
Adam is also a member of the American Statistical Association. |
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Adam Pintar
National Institute of Standards & Technology
100 Bureau Dr., Stop 2140
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
Telephone: 301-975-4554 adam.pintar@nist.gov
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Richard N. "Herb" McGrath, Secretary
Herb is an Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University. He teaches students in the MS Applied Statistics program as well as undergraduate business and MBA students. His current research interests are in industrial statistics, specifically, unreplicated fractional factorial designs, computer experiments, and statistical process control.
Prior to receiving his Ph.D. in Statistics from Penn State in 2000, he worked for AT&T and Bell Laboratories for 12 years as a quality engineer, corporate educator, and quality manager. He also has an M.S. in Statistics from Rutgers University (with option in Quality Management) and a B.S. in Industrial and Management Systems from Penn State.
While at AT&T, Herb taught many courses in statistical process control and experimental design and analysis at manufacturing facilities as well as service centers. He was a member of the writing committees for four books in the AT&T Quality Library.
Herb is a member of the American Statistical Association and a senior member of ASQ. He is currently serving as the Treasurer of the Toledo Section and formerly was the faculty advisor to the Student Section.
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Richard N. "Herb" McGrath
Applied Statistics and Operations Research
College of Business Administration
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
(419) 372-8451 Rnmcgra@bgsu.edu
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Paul Prew, Vice Chair - Products & Services
Currently employed as an Industrial Statistician with Ecolab R&D. Previously held engineering positions with 3M. Studied statistics at Iowa State University and engineering at the University of Minnesota. |
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Paul Prew
Ecolab Inc.
696 Brockton Circle
Saint Paul, MN 55123 Paul.Prew@ecolab.com
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Brian Sersion, CQE, Vice Chair - Communication
Brian Sersion is a program evaluator and research analyst for the Cincinnati Public Schools, Research and Evaluation Department. He is a senior member of ASQ and has held the Certified Quality Engineer credential since 2004.
Brian's expertise is in quantitative analysis, and educational measurement and testing. Prior to working in education, he worked for 14 years as a Site Engineer and Environmental Manager in the waste management industry. At that time his work focused on ground water monitoring and regulatory compliance. Brian holds a MS in Quantitative Analysis from the University of Cincinnati (1999) and BS in Geological Sciences from Ohio University (1987).
Brian also serves on the ASQ By-Laws Committee and his member leader work over the past 8 years has earned him numerous awards from the Society. |
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Brian Sersion, CQE
Cincinnati Public Schools
2651 Burnet Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45219
Phone: 513-363-0177 bsersion@gmail.com
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Sam Gardner, Vice Chair - Operations
Sam Gardner has been a Systems Engineer in the JMP Division at the SAS Institute since 2008. Previously, he worked for seven years with Eli Lilly and Company, first as a statistician in bulk pharmaceutical manufacturing and manufacturing development, and later as a process chemist in antibiotic manufacturing.
Before that, he served for 12 years as an active-duty US Air Force officer, with various roles in weapons systems modeling and simulation, operational flight testing, academics (Instructor of Statistics at the Air Force Institute of Technology) and in visual display systems research.
He has been a JMP user and advocate for the last 12 years. Sam holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and chemistry from Purdue University, a master’s degrees in mathematics from Creighton University, and a master’s degree in statistics from the University of Kentucky.
He is a Senior Member of the ASQ, and has been a member of the ASQ Statistics Division for 10 years. |
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Sam Gardner
765-491-9566 Sam.Gardner@jmp.com
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Mark Kiel, Vice Chair - Outreach
Mark Kiel has forty-five years experience as a Metallurgical Engineer in the Steel Industry. He has held many positions in technical and quality management. His last position was as a Consultant with United States Steel Company in Gary, Indiana, working in Iron Producing Technology. He retired from active employment in 2009 to do the other things he loves.
Mark has been active in the Statistics Division for twenty years starting as the first “Bulletin Board” administrator before there was a “World Wide Web.” He also designed and developed the first Division’s web site and was the division’s first Web Master. After holding other positions in the division he became the Statistics Division Chair in 2004.
Mark currently is an ASQ Senior member and a Group Facilitator in the Division Affairs Council. He is a member of his town’s Planning Commission and a Board Member of his local Park District
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Mark Kiel
14808 Dobson
Dolton, IL 60419
708-849-5409 markhk5409@aol.com
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