Senior Statistician (Shelby Township, MI)

An accomplished statistician with diverse experience in the automotive, chemical, energy, defense, education, and health care industries. Provided statistical support to product design and production teams, especially in experimental design, response surface methodology ( RSM ), Taguchi Methods, Six Sigma, SPC, and reliability and warranty statistics. Results ensured that quality, reliability, and durability requirements were met or exceeded. Pro-active statistical leadership. Strong skills in making presentations and writing formal reports. Self-starter and knowledge expert that leads by example. Mentoring. Industrial and academic teaching.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, 1984-2006. Pontiac and Warren, MI.

Transition, 2005-2006.
Design Engineer, Statistics, 1993-2005.
Sr. Analysis Engineer, Statistics, 1984-1993.
North American Engineering.

Designed and analyzed over 300 experimental design projects. Provided support for Design for Six Sigma ( DFSS ). Planned and analyzed over 50 other statistical projects including SPC, capability, reliability, warranty, categor-ical, and multivariate analysis. Active member of corporate committees for presenting current and new statistical methods for quality improvement and for developing and implementing experimental design strategies, expert software, and computer experiments. Proctored Technical Education classes in statistics.

• Saved over $13.5 million over 10 years based on the results of a brake riveting experimental design.
• Mentored, designed, and analyzed Six Sigma projects. Earned DFSS greenbelt.
• Assessed safety concerns by reliability techniques for a performance evaluation committee that made recommendations for governmental compliance.
• Authored a continuing two-page experimental design column for an internal SPC journal distributed quarterly to North American operations with a readership of over 20,000.
• Facilitated inclusion of and participated in the DuPont class Strategy of Experimentation from 1988 to 1994 and subsequent U. of Wisconsin class Design of Industrial Experiments from 1994 to 2000.
• Reduced cost and improved quality by team developing and teaching Advanced Design of Experiments and Design of Experiments 1 & 2. Focused proven methods on customer based requirements.
• Acquired a reliability software program with multiple licenses which enhanced accurate analysis.
• Created the ISO Work Instruction outlining statistical planning and analysis that allowed ISO certification.

TECHNO-MATH CONSULTING, 1981-1984. Royal Oak, MI.

Principal Member. Self-employed consultant in mathematics, statistics, and scientific computer programming, especially in experimental design. Clients included Ford Motor Company, Monroe Auto Equipment Company, William Beaumont Hospital, Energy Development Associates, General Motors Truck & Bus.

• Reduced cost and increased quality by developing and programming a thermodynamic mathematical model for underbody heat protection. Increased efficiency in subsequent testing through experimental design by minimizing the number of vehicles while maximizing effectiveness.
• Recommended adoption of a mainframe statistical analysis software system after a detailed evaluation of several commercially available packages.
• Results of a statistical analysis of two speech pathology studies were published in a medical journal article.
• Improved quality by devising a new reliability tracking method for assessing long-term durability.
• Reduced cost and increased quality by developing and teaching Statistical Thinking for Engineers.

R&D Company. Gulf+Western parent company. Ceased business operations in 1984. Sr. Mathematician. Developed zinc-chlorine fuel cells with applications to utility load-leveling battery systems and electric vehicles. Supervisor PERT / CPM analysis.

• Met regulatory requirements by developing a comprehensive FMEA of the utility load-leveling battery system. Ensured safety by adding a redundant ultraviolet light for hydrogen dispersal.
• Improved fuel cell efficiency to above 95% from about 60% by response surface methodology.

• Reduced production costs by determining when to perform maintenance operations by analyzing particle size statistical distributions.
• Improved quality of color fastness based on an accelerated experimental design using an environmental chamber that controlled temperature, humidity, and ozone concentration.
• Certified standard grading procedures for evaluating pilling and fuzzing by conducting a double blind experimental design. Eliminated any bias due to color, an innovation, by taking black and white photographs of coupons.
• Improved quality of analysis by developing a general computer program of a multivariate procedure, principle component analysis, with extensive graphical output.

Mathematics Analyst, Defense Engineering Division. Provided mathematical and statistical analysis of Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability ( RAM ) data as related to military vehicle development and testing.

• Improved analysis productivity by devising a simulation computer program that performed RAM calculations for tanks under battlefield conditions.

Small liberal arts college located in Western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. Instructor in Mathematics. Taught all levels of undergraduate mathematics courses. Mathematics club advisor.

ADDITIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Macomb County Community College, Warren, MI 1981-1984
• Oakland County Community College, Auburn Hills, MI 1983
• Central Michigan University, on-site at Chrysler Defense Engineering 1974
• Adjunct Instructor in Mathematics and Statistics
• Mayo Clinic, Graduate Intern, Summer 1966
• Biostatistics Department, Rochester, MN
• Developed computer program to track local oncology patients.

• MA, Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 1967
• BA, Mathematics, Cum Laude, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 1965
• Completed all course requirements towards PhD in mathematics except dissertation
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 1970

American Statistical Association, member, 1978-present.

• Detroit Chapter: treasurer, vice president, president, past president
• Convention chairman of contributory paper sessions in experimental design
• Continuing education courses at most conventions
• Book Reviewer

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

• Gibbons, N. M. (1977), A parameter estimation method based on regression analysis, Presentation to the American Mathematical Society, 743rd Meeting, University of Alabama at Huntsville, AL
• Gibbons, N. M. (1981), An Application of Blocking in Response Surface Methodology, Presentation to the Joint Statistical Meetings, Detroit, MI
• Gibbons, N. M. (1988), The Application of Experimental Design to the Brake Riveting Process, Presentation to the Joint Statistical Meetings, Atlanta, GA
• Gibbons, N. M. (1989), The Application of Experimental Design to the Brake Riveting Process, Presentation to the Detroit Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Detroit, MI, 01/18
• Gibbons, N. M. (1990), The Application of Experimental Design to the Brake Riveting Process, Presentation to Quality Concepts 1990, a symposium sponsored by the Automotive Division, ASQC and The Engineering Society, Hyatt-Regency, Dearborn, MI, 10/29-10/31.

Methods: design of experiments, DOE, response surface methodology, RSM, Robust Engineering, Taguchi, Shainin, Six Sigma, DFSS, SQC, SPC, Continuous Improvement, FMEA, RAM, scientific programming

Statistical Expertise: predictive modeling, observational modeling, regression, ANOVA, GLM, correlation, factor analysis, principle components, discriminant, canonical correlation, cluster, logistic, categorical, neural networks, survival, reliability, Monte Carlo, control charts, capability

Statistical Software: SAS, Minitab, IMSL, DEXPERT, Design-Expert, Stat-Graphics, Weibull++

Other Software: DISSPLA, WORD, Excel

Programming Languages: FORTRAN, basic, Wang

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