Jim Rutledge has over fifteen years of teaching and consulting experience. He specializes in teaching powerful statistical tools to non-statisticians; he has instructed over 1000 scientists, engineers, managers, and college students. As an Air Force missile launch officer, he became the Senior Instructor responsible for training 200 other launch officers. His work on a major weapon system training program earned him the 8th Air Force Crew of the Year award.  As an Assistant Professor at the United States Air Force Academy, he taught courses in probability and statistics. While at the Academy, he won the Statistics Division Instructor of the Year award. In addition to teaching, Dr. Rutledge has extensive research and consulting experience. His collaborative research on breast cancer has been acknowledged as one of the motivating factors for changing the national screening policy. It is now recommended that women receive mammography starting at age 40 instead of age 50. The importance of this work was acknowledged on the floor of the House of Representatives. Dr. Rutledge is a member of the American Statistical Association where he has served as President of the Colorado-Wyoming Chapter. As the Chapter President, he created the Western Statistics Teachers’ Conference, an international conference dedicated to promoting excellence in the teaching of statistics.  Most recently Dr. Rutledge has been performing Six Sigma training and consulting at such companies as AlliedSignal, Chevron, Conseco, Edwards Life Sciences, General Electric, Glaxo-Wellcome, Honeywell, Raytheon, and Xerox. Dr. Rutledge has consulted on over 150 Six Sigma projects valued at 100 million dollars. Dr. Rutledge has personally completed several Six Sigma projects valued at 18 million dollars. He has successfully applied Six Sigma techniques in the aerospace, automotive, biotech, financial services, and pharmaceutical industries. His expertise on Design of Experiments, a powerful Six Sigma tool, earned him an invitation to speak on the subject at the National Academy of Sciences. He earned a B.A. and M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

Mike Chernick is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the author of more than 30 journal articles. He has coauthored journal articles in cardiology, electrophysiology, and oncology with the clinical researchers in the Mainline Health Hospital System and papers in breast cancer, rectal, colon and ovarian with the laboratory scientists. He is also the coauthor of Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences: Modern Methods including Bootstrap (Wiley, 2002). Dr. Chernick is the winner of the Wolfowitz Prize in 1983 and is a past President of the Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association. He has taught at California State University and the University of Southern California, has given several short courses on bootstrap methods and has also worked in the aerospace, medical device and pharmaceutical industries. He currently teaches bootstrap methods on line at statistics.com and is introducing an introductory biostatistics course for physicians and nurses there.  He has published numerous book reviews in Technometrics and one recently for Statistics in Medicine.  He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research.

Jennifer Nelson has over 13 years of experience in engineering and statistics. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt whose pursuit of statistical expertise grew out of real world needs in the engineering world. Her experience in the technical field of engineering includes work in both design and manufacturing environments. Jennifer has been involved in the full lifecycle of products from quote and requirement development through obsolescence and end-of –life. In this environment Jennifer developed an understanding of the processes involved in identifying data needs, methods to collect data, organizing, analyzing, interpreting and then using the analysis to make data-driven decisions.  Jennifer holds a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from LeTourneau University and earned a Masters Degree in Applied Statistics from DePaul University.


Patricia Rutledge is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO.  In addition she has provided consulting to the Missouri Department of Health. Dr. Rutledge received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1983. In that same year she was awarded the American Psychological Association, Division 20, Student Research Award. Dr. Rutledge began her career as a Research Analyst, in the Statistical Analysis Center, of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. While at the patrol she completed survey research in the areas of criminal justice and driving while intoxicated as well as research projects that assessed the impact of law enforcement activities on highway safety. Recently Dr. Rutledge completed 2 years of Post-Doctoral studies at the Alcohol, Health and Behavior Laboratory Department of Psychology University of Missouri - Columbia. These Post-Doctoral studies included course work in Structural Equation Modeling as well as research on alcohol abuse that employed Structural Equations. Dr. Rutledge is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society and the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.

 


Bradley A. Warner is a Professor of Applied Statistics at the United States Air Force Academy. He received his undergraduate degree in Geophysical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. In 1996 he received his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center. His research interests include complex modeling methods, neural networks, and statistical education. He has done consulting work for several government and private agencies including Boehringer Ingelheim, Ethicon, Air Force Office of Test and Evaluation, Synthes, and the Casting Emissions Reduction Program. He has taught several short courses on topics such Design of Experiments, Neural Networks, and Statistical Process Control. Prior to his work at the Air Force Academy, he was a submarine qualified Naval Officer and a product development engineer for Siecor, a leading manufacturer of fiber optic cables. He holds one United States Patent.