Founder and Chairman, JMP
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, SAS
John Sall heads JMP Statistical Discovery LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of SAS, which creates interactive and highly visual statistical discovery software designed for scientists and engineers. As the primary architect for JMP® software, he leads its R&D division. Sall joined Jim Goodnight and two others in 1976 to establish SAS.
Joseph Morgan is a Principal Research Statistician Developer at JMP Statistical Discovery LLC, a SAS company. He is a member of the Design of Experiments team in the Research and Development group at JMP.
Before joining JMP, Morgan taught courses in analytics, software engineering and computer science in the School of Computer Science at DePaul University. He has also taught at the University of Technology Jamaica and worked as a software engineer at Ernst & Young, Comdisco Inc., and British American Insurance Company. Morgan’s research interests and publications include topics in discrete mathematics, empirical methods in software engineering, and reliability theory.
Julian Parris is the Director of User Acquisition at JMP Statistical Discovery LLC, a SAS company specializing in interactive desktop software for dynamic data visualization and analysis.
In this role, Parris is charged with bringing the power of JMP to scientists, engineers and other data explorers who are making a difference in the world.
Before joining JMP, Parris was a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) where he used JMP to teach intermediate and advanced statistics and research methods to students in the social sciences. He holds a master’s degree and PhD in Experimental Psychology from UCSD, where he studied various aspects of human behavior as they relate to interactions with computers, evidence and inference. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UCLA.
Teaching Professor
University of Washington Bothell
Dr. Grace Lasker is a Teaching Professor at the University of Washington Bothell in Public and Environmental Health and Toxicology.
She is also a Certified Nutritionist with the State of Washington, a Certified Master Health Education Specialist, and a Certified Health Coach. Dr. Lasker’s scholarship and research focuses on the intersection of toxicology, green chemistry, and public health and the role of social and environmental justice in training the next generation of scientists and public health practitioners.
She has been an invited speaker and consultant for implementing inclusive and equitable STEM educational programs and developing justice-centered strategic outcomes for global corporations. Her goal is to help everyone realize their potential to be change agents who can make the world a better place.
University of Washington
Rick Morgan is a Professor of Green Chemistry at the University of Washington who works with manufacturing to help them implement green chemistry more effectively. Rick’s passion is developing products and processes to improve manufacturing and to bring green chemistry into the pilot stage of all new strategies.
Morgan also is a Senior Research Chemist in nanotech at Modumetal, a consultant in hazardous clinical waste for the CDC, a professor of Chemistry at Lake Washington Technical College in Kirkland, Washington, and is President and CEO of Immaculate Comics.
In his past engagements, Rick has developed propellants and fire suppression systems for space vehicles at Aerojet Rocket Research and has helped formulate low-observable coatings for aircraft at Boeing.
Sr. Systems Engineer, JMP
Scott Allen is a Systems Engineer at JMP, supporting customers in the Ohio Valley and helping them get the most out of their experiments and data analytics. Prior to working at JMP, Allen led various R&D teams in the development and commercialization of specialty chemicals for polyurethane products.
Andrews Practical Stats, Sole Proprietor
A chemical engineering degree from Rose-Hulman Institute prepared Ronald Andrews for most aspects of an engineering career. Statistics wasn't one of them. Everything Andrews has learned about statistics beyond calculating an average and a standard deviation has been learned on the job. Those job titles always contained the word engineer.
Senior Analytics Software Tester, JMP
Mark Bailey received PhD in chemistry from University of Rochester. He developed medical diagnostics and established Six Sigma practices in R&D for 15 years. After 23 years of teaching JMP training courses, Bailey currently uses his domain knowledge to help develops new JMP software with a customer perspective.
Senior Process Development Engineer, Coherent Inc.
Allison Bankaitis is a Senior Process Development Engineer at Coherent. Previously, she gained process engineering experience working at Corning. Bankaitis has a masters in electrical and computer engineering from Binghamton University and a BS in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is also a Sigma Green Belt.
Student, Oklahoma State University
Brittany Burlison has a BS in marketing and management and a masters in business analytics and data science.
Quality Director, US Synthetic
Jed Campbell is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt with varied problem solving experience from manufacturing to designing and coaching of experiments in rocket science. Campbell has an undergraduate degree in education and experience instructing and mentoring at all levels. He has a strong business acumen, with a nationally-ranked MBA.
Statistician, Statistika Consultoria
Jose Carvalho is the founder and a statistician at Statistika Consultoria. He has extensive experience in statistical issues related to product development and medical research using SAS and, for a long time now, JMP.
Professor Emeritus, Stonehill College
Rob Carver is Professor Emeritus at Stonehill College, and former Senior Lecturer at Brandeis University. He has published two books with SAS Press, has presented several times at Discovery Summits, and has contributed short pieces in the JMP User Community.
Principal Test Engineer, JMP
Mandy Chambers works extensively with JMP data tables, the Recode tool, the Tabulate platform, Virtual Join, and many other data table attributes. Chambers has a BA in math education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She joined JMP in 2015, after testing SAS software for 27 years.
Black Belt Student, Stanford OHS
A student at Stanford Online High School, Mason Chen is a certified IASSC Black Belt. Since 2018, Chen has co-presented/authored 20+ JMP Discovery Summit presentations, winning the Best Contributed Paper Award at the 2018 Discovery Summit Americas and Best Student Poster Award at the 2021 Discovery Summit Europe.
Process Engineer, Applied Materials
Ting Cheng is currently a process engineer at Applied Materials. She has JMP STIPS certification and is currently enrolled in Applied Materials' Black Belt program and expects to be certified in July 2022. She obtained her PhD from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2017.
Customer Quality Engineer, Applied Materials Corp.
Wayne Chou is a customer quality engineer in Applied Materials and Black Belt Cert process, and he has completed JMP STIPS Certification. Chou has been a Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) process engineer for 18 years. His research focuses on reliability and characterization for CVD and Digital Lithography Technology.
Sr. Prin. Scientist, Biostatistics, Merck & Co., Inc.
Seth Clark has a PhD in statistics from Virginia Tech. Clark has worked for Merck for over 20 years, supporting small molecules, vaccines, and biologics in pre-clinical, non-clinical and CMC areas, including formulation, analytical and process DOE, stability study design and analysis. He is currently supporting process development and characterization.
Sr. Systems Engineer, JMP
Andrea Coombs has more than 20 years of experience in applied analytics in several industries including agricultural research, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and pharmaceutical R&D, holding undergraduate and graduate degrees in Life Sciences from Michigan State University. She is currently a JMP Senior Systems Engineer supporting major accounts in the eastern US.
Director of Research and Development, JMP
Brian Corcoran is the Director of Research and Development for the JMP Host Group, which develops the JMP Live product. The group is also responsible for Mac and Windows work, Query Builder and many of the data access capabilities of JMP.
Director of Optical Process Engineering, Magic Leap
Huihang (Harry) Dong is Director of the Optical Process Engineering department at Magic Leap. He is responsible for delivering digital light field manufacturing solutions, from research and development to mass production. Dong's main focus is on yield ramp-up and process capability and stability improvement across the entire EP factory.
Senior Product Marketing Manager, JMP
Sara Doudt is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at JMP, helping drive value for the company and product by supporting efforts that align to our core market's needs. Doudt works closely with customers and the product management team to identify opportunities that enable stronger product awareness, adoption and analytical excellence.
Principal Software Developer, JMP
Bryan Fricke is a Senior Product Manager focused on the overall user experience of JMP. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Bachelor's and Master's degrees in computer science from North Carolina State University.
Senior Product Manager, Health and Life Sciences, JMP Statistical Discovery LLC
Sam Gardner is a Senior Product Manager for Life Sciences at JMP. Formerly, he worked as a consulting statistician in pharmaceutical and medical device R&D, supporting product development for several companies. He holds a BS in mathematics and chemistry, a MS in mathematics and a MS in statistics.
Sr Analytical Technical Support Engineer, JMP
An active member of the ASQ community and CMQ-OE certified, Patrick Giuliano is currently a member of JMP US West Coast Technical Support. A regular JMP Discovery Summit conference presenter since 2019, Giuliano has also helped several high school students learn STIPS and present during Discovery.
Process Control Manager, PCC Structurals
Steve Hampton has been in the casting industry since 2005. Throughout his career he has used the power of data and statistics to create otherwise missed business value. Hampton started with Minitab and moved on to using JMP in 2015 and then JMP Pro in 2019.
Sr Systems Engineer, JMP
Peter Hersh supports customer development as a part of the global technical enablement team. Before joining JMP, Hersh was an engineer at HelioVolt and a post-doctoral researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Hersh is the author or co-author of six engineering publications and has co-authored five patents.
Distinguished Software Developer, JMP
Eric Hill has been a developer at SAS for 28 years, with the past 16 years spent on the JMP team. While at JMP, Hill has worked on SAS Integration, Windows user interface, the JMP Add-In facility, Query Builder, and for the past six years, JMP Live.
Quality Engineer, Applied Material
Huang Raisa leads the Taiwan Applied Material Quality team as a manufacturing engineer who analyzes manufacturing quality performance. Huang is currently pursuing JMP STIPS certification and completing JMP training for AMAT Black Belt.
Distinguished Research Fellow, JMP
Bradley Jones developed the Custom Designer, and invented the profile plot. He is co-discoverer with Chris Nachtsheim of Definitive Screening Designs. He has won the Youden Prize and the Brumbaugh and the Lloyd S. Nelson awards. Jones is a past editor of JQT and is a Fellow of the ASA.
Senior Management Consultant, Adsurgo
Andrew Karl is a senior management consultant for Adsurgo LLC, where he works with pharmaceutical customers on topics including lipid nanoparticle formulation optimization and process characterization. He has a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in statistics from Arizona State University.
Professor, KPA, Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion, Israel and University of Turin, Italy
Professor Ron Kenett is Chairman of the KPA Group, Israel, Chairman of the Data Science Society at AEAI, and Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion, Haifa, Israel. Past President of the Israel Statistical Association and of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics.
Principal Research Statistician Developer, JMP
Laura Lancaster is responsible for platforms such as Measurement Systems Analysis, Variability, Process Capability and Distribution. Lancaster studied mathematical sciences with an emphasis in operations research and has a doctorate in management science from Clemson University. She completed her undergraduate work in mathematics and computer science at Stetson University.
Principal Research Statistician Developer, JMP
Ryan Lekivetz works on the design of experiments (DOE) platforms in JMP. He earned his doctorate in statistics from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, Canada, and has publications and patents related to topics in DOE.
Senior Process Engineer, Magic Leap
Anudeep Maripi is a Senior Process Engineer in the Optical Process Engineering department at Magic Leap, responsible for day-to-day continuous improvement and sustaining activities in the FEOL, consisting of lithography, chemical cleaning, and coating operations. Maripi loves to explore data and master data-driven decision-making to make an impact in technology.
Technical Staff Engineer, Microchip Technology Inc.
Steve Maxwell is a Technical Staff Engineer with the Yield group at Microchips Fab4 facility in Gresham, Oregon. He holds a degree in chemistry from the University of Oregon.
Assistant Scientist, Coral Reef Diagnostics
Dr. Anderson Mayfield is a marine biologist with a passion for coral reefs and the anthozoan-dinoflagellate endosymbioses upon which they are built. His work incorporates field (SCUBA diving), experimental (aquarium studies), laboratory (molecular and cellular biology), and predictive modeling approaches to better understand the fates of coral reefs around the world.
Technical Enablement Engineer, JMP
Don McCormack is a Principal Systems Engineer in the Global Technical Enablement team at JMP. He has been practicing statistics professionally for more than 30 years. Prior to joining JMP in 2008, he was a Senior Quality Engineer at Amgen and a Member of the Technical Staff at SEMATECH.
Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Iowa State University
Bill Meeker is Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University, Fellow of the ASA, ASQ, and AAAS and has won numerous awards for his research and publications. He researches and consults extensively on problems in reliability data analysis, warranty analysis, reliability test planning, accelerated testing, nondestructive evaluation, and statistical computing.
Student - M.S. Business Analytics and Data Science, Oklahoma State University
Zach Miller is a master's student at Oklahoma State University studying Business Analytics and Data Science. Miller's education is in Management/Marketing with work experience in the service and sports industries. He is currently working on improving his technical skills and refining the soft skills to become a well-rounded business analyst.
Statistical Programmer, Janssen Pharmaceutical
Peter Mroz works for Janssen Pharmaceutical as a Statistical Programmer. He supports development and implementation of tools to increase efficiency and analytical capability within Global Medical Safety. Mroz has a BChE in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware and a master's in computer and systems engineering from RPI.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Michael Nazarkovsky has a PhD in physical chemistry. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. His research interests lie in materials science, nanocomposites and data science. He has authored 24 scientific publications; his Google Scholar h-index is 8.
Principal Systems Research Analyst, Sandia National Laboratories
Thor D. Osborn, Ph.D., MBA, Certified Analytics Professional, is employed by Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM. He performs analysis and visualization across a broad range of organizational challenges on behalf of executive leadership, leveraging cross-cutting corporate data streams, statistical methods, diverse colleagues and personal experience in program and personnel management.
Sr. Research Statistician Developer, JMP
Ryan Parker is a Senior Research Statistician Developer at JMP. Parker develops the Functional Data Explorer platform for JMP Pro and is responsible for the Gaussian Process platform and the Bootstrap/Simulate features. He studied statistics at North Carolina State University, earning a PhD in statistics.
Student, Oklahoma State University
Cade Phelan is an industrial engineering graduate from Oklahoma State University, currently pursuing a master's degree in business analytics and data science. Phelan has professional experience in marketing analytics and has a data engineering internship this summer. His primary research interest involves the rapidly evolving landscape of baseball analytics.
Principal Systems Engineer, JMP
Dieter Pisot is a JMP Principal Systems Engineer specializing in cloud installations of JMP Live. Before joining JMP, Pisot held positions in technical support and application development for SAS. Pisot has a master’s degree in computer science from the Fachhochschule fuer Technik in Mannheim.
Senior Scientific Analyst, Institute of Health Policy and Practice at University of New Hampshire
Erica Plante is a Senior Scientific Analyst at the Institute for Health Policy and Practice at the University of New Hampshire. She provides analytic, programming, project management and documentation support across various projects for IHPP's Health Analytics and Informatics focal group. She has a masters in analytics from UNH.
Software Developer Manager, JMP
John Powell is a Software Development Manager with extensive experience in graphics software development for artists, video games, engineering, virtual reality, and data visualization. He joined the JMP team to build the initial Interactive HTML capability into JMP 11 and helped build early versions of JMP Live.
Senior Business Translator, Mars
Jared Shaw works for Mars Inc. leading a Data Science team supporting projects in R&D for all segments. Shaw has master's degrees in Statistics and Instructional Technology and has been an avid JMP user for over 20 years. He lives in Tennessee with his wife and three children.
Principal Analyst, Crucial Connection LLC
Micol Federica Tresoldi is a statistician, working as a senior researcher in Core R&D at Dow Chemical. She received her PhD in statistics from the University of Chicago. Before choosing to become a statistician, she studied economics in Milan, Italy, where she is from.
Principal Software Developer, JMP
Aurora Tiffany-Davis is a Principal Software Developer at JMP. She has a master’s degree in computer science from North Carolina State University. Some of the JMP Live features she has worked on include nested folders, publishing to JMP Live, downloading from JMP Live, access control and control chart warnings.
Senior Research Statistician, Dow Chemical
Micol Federica Tresoldi is a statistician, working as a senior researcher in Core R&D at Dow Chemical. She received her PhD in statistics from the University of Chicago. Before choosing to become a statistician, she studied economics in Milan, Italy, where she is from.
Founder and Chief Consultant, STAT-TECH
David Trindade, Ph.D. is founder of STAT-TECH, a JMP consulting and training partner. He has worked for BloomEnergy, Sun Microsystems, Phoenix Technologies, AMD, General Instruments and IBM. His honors include IEEE Reliability Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Senior Member IEEE and ASQ, ASA Fellow, and co-author of Applied Reliability, 3rd ed.
Managing Consultant, NNE
Per Vase is an acknowledged data analysis expert with more than 30 years of experience. His focus is on applying Six Sigma in good manufacturing practice (cGMP) environments, combining compliance and process optimization efforts to ensure both high quality and low costs.
Sr. Systems Engineer, JMP
Jason Wiggins joined JMP after a 22-year engineering career holding leadership roles in research, product development and manufacturing in the upstream oil and gas industry. Wiggins has leveraged analytics to solve complex problems in product design, development, testing and manufacturing. He has spent many hours fixing messy data problems.
Sr. Systems Engineer, JMP
Scott Lee Wise is a Senior Systems Engineer for JMP. Wise attained degrees in business (BSBA UNC) and quality engineering (MSQA SPSU). He also holds ASA Professional Statistician, ASQ Quality Engineering/Management, JMP and SAS Software, Master Black Belt and PMI Project Management certifications.
Senior Global Enablement Engineer, JMP
Prior to joining JMP, Bill Worley worked for Procter & Gamble. As Technology Leader for Modeling and Simulation, he trained and supported scientists and engineers globally in the use of JMP. Worley is a chemist by education with a Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati.
Student, Lynbrook High School
Catherine Zhou is a student at Lynbrook High School.