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BIO OF ANDREW KARP

Andrew Karp is President of Sierra Information Services, a SAS® Software consultancy located in the heart of the Northern California Wine Country. Prior to starting Sierra in 1994 he held positions with, among others, Federal Express Corporation, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Pacific Gas & Electric Company, as well as at 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, IBM's Storage Systems Division, Lloyd's Bank/TSB, Limited Brands, Chordiant Software, Bear Creek Corporation, the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District (SMUD) 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 seminars and customized on-site training solutions on a wide range of SAS System capabilities; He has designed and implemented customized SAS Software training for, among others, the United States Import Administration, Capital One Financial Services, Inc., IBM, Lloyd's Bank/TSB, Omnium Worldwide, Discover Financial Services, Inc., the Health Insurance Commission of Australia, the Social Policy Agency of New Zealand, the Washington State Department of Health and Social Services, the Urban Institute, GE Capital Finance of Australia and New Zealand, the Office of the Chief Statistician of The Scottish Executive, the U.S. 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 predictive modeling, linear modeling and related topics.

Andrew is frequently invited to share his expertise on the SAS System with attendees at the annual SAS Global Forum (formerly SUGI) conference as well as at regional and local user conferences throughout North America and in other countries, and has received “Best Paper” recognition at many of these events. To date he has presented at events for SAS users in Canada, the Netherlands, the People’s Republic of China, England, Australia and New Zealand, as well as throughout the United States.

Andrew earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from The George Washington University. From 1989 to 1995 he was responsible for design and delivery of numerous 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, for the Department of Experimental Statistics at Louisiana State University and in the Department of Radiation Oncology at St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco.

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