Education & Credentials

Degrees

Ph.D., Statistics

Virginia Tech · Blacksburg, VA

Most Outstanding Graduate Student Award

M.S., Statistics

Brigham Young University · Provo, UT

B.A., Math Education

Brigham Young University · Provo, UT

Certifications & Executive Programs

Chief Data Officer Certification

Carnegie Mellon University · 2024

Capstone team selected "Best in Cohort"

HBX CORe — Credential of Readiness

Harvard Business School

Pass with Honors

Six Sigma Greenbelt

GE

Excellence in applied statistical engineering

SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9

SAS Institute · 2010

Selected Publications

Outlier Robust Nonlinear Mixed Model Estimation

Statistics in Medicine, vol. 34, pp. 1304–1316 (2015)

Parametric Nonlinear Profiles

Statistical Analysis of Profile Monitoring (book chapter), Wiley, New York

A Statistical Method to Account for Plate-to-Plate Variability in Multiple-Plate Bioassays

BioPharm, 16(4), pp. 44–54

Distribution of Hotelling's T² Statistic Based on Successive Differences

Journal of Quality Technology, 38, pp. 217–229

Maximum Value of Hotelling's T² Statistics Based on the Successive Differences Covariance Matrix Estimator

Communications in Statistics – Theory & Methods, 38, pp. 471–483

Statistical Monitoring of Heteroscedastic Dose-Response Profiles from High-throughput Screening

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 12, pp. 216–235

Statistical Monitoring of Nonlinear Product and Process Quality Profiles

Quality & Reliability Engineering International, 23, pp. 925–941

Awards & Recognition

  • GE Global Research 10 Publication Award
  • Virginia Tech College of Science Most Outstanding Graduate Student Award
  • Carnegie Mellon CDO Capstone — Best in Cohort (2024)
  • Harvard HBX CORe — Pass with Honors
  • ASA Program Chair and Section Chair (2005–2017)