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BIO OF ANDREW KARP

Andrew Karp is President of Sierra Information Services, an independent SAS® Software consultancy located in Northern California. Prior to starting Sierra in 1994 he held positions with, among others, Federal Express Corporation, a predecessor firm of what is now PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. He is a SAS Certified Professional™.

As President of Sierra he has worked on consulting projects at Wells Fargo Bank, Blue Shield of California, Fireman’s Fund Insurance, Chordiant Software, IBM's Storage Systems Division, Lloyd's Bank/TSB, Limited Brands, Bear Creek Corporation, the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District and other organizations. These projects focused on using SAS software tools for data mining, predictive modeling, and decision support, as well as on customer satisfaction measurement, forecasting and reporting.

In addition to his consulting activities, Andrew regularly presents both public training seminars and customized on-site courses on various aspects of the SAS System. He has designed and implemented customized SAS Software training solutions for, among others, the United States Import Administration, Capital One Financial Services, Inc., IBM, Lloyd's Bank/TSB in the United Kingdom, Discover Financial Services, Inc., the Health Insurance Commission of Australia, West Asset Management (formerly Omnium Worldwide), the Social Policy Agency of New Zealand, the Washington State Department of Health and Social Services, GE Capital Finance of Australia and New Zealand, the Office of the Chief Statistician of The Scottish Executive, the US Federal Communications Commission and First Premier Bank.

Andrew has presented public SAS training seminars throughout the United States, as well as in the People’s Republic of China, England, Belgium, Australia and New Zealand. He has served on the technical review teams for seven books published by SAS Institute's Publications Division, including texts on statistical modeling, programming efficiency and related topics.

He is frequently invited to share his expertise on the SAS System at the annual SAS Global Forum (formerly SUGI) conference as well as at regional and local user meetings throughout North America, receiving “Best Paper” recognition at many of these events. He has also been an invited speaker at events for SAS users in Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Australia, the People’s Republic of China and the United Kingdom. Andrew has also been a featured speaker at events sponsored by the American Marketing Association, the Direct Marketing Association (US), the Singapore Direct Marketing Association, and several American Statistical Association chapters.

Andrew earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from The George Washington University. From 1989 to 1995 he taught courses in the SAS System for UC Berkeley's Extension Division, and has also taught for the University of Auckland, the St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance in the former Soviet Union, the Department of Experimental Statistics at Louisiana State University and in the Department of Radiation Oncology at St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco. He has also been a guest lecturer in the Department of Decision Sciences at The George Washington University and the Department of Statistics at California State University East Bay (formerly CSU Hayward).

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