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Christine Anderson-Cook, 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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Mindy Hotchkiss, Chair-Elect
Mindy Hotchkiss is the Technical Lead for the Statistics Group at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in West Palm Beach, FL, a division of United Technologies (UTC). Primary areas of interest are assessment of risks for extreme events and analysis of sparse datasets in support of business and engineering decisions. Her diverse workload includes statistical process control and process improvement activities, as well as reliability, modeling, and uncertainty analyses.
Mindy received her M.S. in Statistics from North Carolina State University and has a B.S. with a double major in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Florida. She also has an MBA from the University of Florida. She is a member of the American Statistical Association as well as ASQ and is a Certified Reliability Engineer. |
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Mindy Hotchkiss
Systems Design, Analysis, & Integration
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
P.O. Box 109600, M/S 731-84
West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600
Phone: (561) 796-8146
Fax: (860) 755-7853 mindy.hotchkiss@pw.utc.com
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Vijay Nair, Past Chair
Vijay Nair is the Donald A. Darling Professor of Statistics and Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has been Chair of the Department of Statistics since 1998. Previously, he was a Research Scientist in the Mathematical Sciences and Operations Research Centers at Bell Laboratories for 15 years. Dr. Nair has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Malaya and a Ph. D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Vijay’s research interests include engineering statistics (quality improvement, reliability, design and analysis of industrial experiments, and process control), information technology (modeling and analysis of computer and communication networks and sensor networks), and design of behavioral intervention studies. He also has extensive consulting experience on a broad range of problems in the automotive, semiconductor, and telecommunications industries.
Vijay is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association, and the Institute for Mathematical Statistics. He is a former editor of Technometrics and of the International Statistical Review. He has served (or is serving) as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute Statistical Sciences, vice-president of International Institute of Statistics, and a member of the National Academies’ Committee on National Statistics.
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Vijay Nair
453 West Hall
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
1085 South University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
Phone: (734) 763-8018, (734) 647-0814
Fax: (734) 763-4676
vnn@umich.edu
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Bill Rodebaugh, Treasurer
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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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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William Brenneman, Vice Chair - Products & Services
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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Steve Schuelka, Vice Chair - Voice of Customer
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Steve Schuelka
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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. Mr. Sersion's expertise is in educational measurement and testing, and quantitative analysis.
Prior to working in education, Mr. Sersion worked for 14 years in the field of environmental management as a Site Engineer and Technical Manager in the waste management industry. At that time his work focused on ground water monitoring, regulatory compliance and hazardous materials management.
He received an MS in Quantitative Analysis from The University of Cincinnati (1999) and BS in Geological Sciences from Ohio University (1987). He is a senior member of the American Society for Quality and has held the Certified Quality Engineer credential since 2004.
His volunteer work for ASQ over the past 5 years has earned him recognition awards for the Division Management Program. |
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Brian Sersion, CQE
Cincinnati Public Schools
2651 Burnet Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45219
Phone: 513-363-0177 sersiob@cps-k12.org
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