Sam GardnerSam Gardner is a Senior Research Scientist at Elanco, a business division of Eli Lilly and Company. He currently works as a statistician supporting manufacturing development for a variety of animal health products. He is recognized by the American Sttistical Association as an Accredited Professional Statistician. He has an MS in mathematics from Creighton University and an MS in statistics from the University of Kentucky. He graduated from Purdue University with BS degrees in mathematics and chemistry. Gardner started his professional career as a military officer in the US Air Force, where he had roles that focused on modeling and simulation, operational flight test planning and analysis, and research and development. He also taught statistics at the Air Force Institute of Technology. After leaving the military, he began his work in the pharmaceutical industry as a statistician supporting the development and manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, and later transitioned to a role as a chemist in pharmaceutical manufacturing. He also worked as a statistician in pharmaceutical marketing with a focus on using statistical modeling to help solve business problems related to sales and marketing effectiveness. An avid user of statistical software, he spent several years working for JMP, a division of SAS, where he worked as a product expert and seminar speaker, with a focus on data visualization, applied statistics, and modern statistical modeling. Read More Read Less