JMC staff are knowledgeable, experienced and passionate professionals. But technical knowledge is just the beginning. Data analytics is a tough field. Excellent trainers must be patient, flexible, engaging leaders that can pique the interest of participants and generate their involvement.
This is how we train. We share vast experience supporting engineers and scientists engaged in research, manufacturing, FDA validation, and continuous improvement efforts. Our clients come from all industries including automotive, aerospace, medical device, pharmaceutical and energy.
Karen Beaver Meldrum – Detroit
Karen brings a stellar career in statistical services and guidance to her work with JMC. Starting as a statistician at Ford Motor Company in 1993, she has continued sharing her statistical expertise through training, mentoring, and consulting with Minitab, Inc and through her own consulting firm, KM Optimal, Inc. Today she works with engineers, scientists, and quality control professionals in aerospace, automotive, oil and medical devices industries.
Karen holds a variety of degrees including a Master of Science in Applied Statistics, a Master of Arts in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics.
Detroit area clients include Ford Motor Company, Daimler-Chrysler (FCA), Stryker, Terumo and Alcoa.
Malin Reiten – Seattle
Malin’s long and diverse career spans 20 years and positions from Quality Manager to Process Improvement Engineer to Six Sigma Deployment Champion. Her data-based approach to business decisions and project management has lead to the completion of more than a dozen process improvement projects with over a million dollar ROI. She now seeks to increase her impact on US manufacturing tenfold by sharing her skills with others so that they can be equally successful. Malin specializes in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing, but is equally comfortable in all industries.
Malin holds a cand.scient degree (MS equivalent) in Mathematics / Chemistry from the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway as well as a MA in Statistics from the University of Missouri – St Louis.
Past clients include Tinfos, Mallinckrot and VerySimple Foods.
Noah Johnson – San Francisco
Noah brings 7 years experience in biomedical engineering research, experiment design and data analysis training to his role as a consultant / trainer at JMC. He is currently a post doc with the University of California San Francisco. His skill in experiment design and analysis has lead to and incredible 20 refereed publications since starting graduate school. He is credited with bringing “Design of Experiments for Biomedical Research” to the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and now looks to share these skills with other researchers in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.
Noah holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Penn State University , a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh and is now a post doc at UCSF.
Key San Francisco area clients include Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Intuitive Surgical, and the University of California, SF.
Amy Shaffer – Tampa
Amy has a long established career in product development, process improvement and Quality. Her career has been devoted to developing creative and technically sound solutions to complex process problems. Over the last 15 years, Amy has worked with General Dynamics, managing their armaments process engineering efforts in Clearwater, FL and more recently product development with Lonza Pharmaceuticals. She has also worked as a statistician at Bausch & Lomb and Intel.
Amy holds a master’s degree from Florida State University (applied statistics) and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech
Tampa area clients include Lonza Pharmaceutical, Chromalloy Castings, Mosaic Chemical and General Dynamics
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Luis Mateo – New York City
Luis brings 20 years of experience as a statistician and statistical methods trainer to JMC. He has worked at global companies such as Unilever, PepsiCo, Noven Pharmaceuticals, MARS Pet Foods and Becton Dickinson. Twelve years consulting and training at Minitab, Inc and his own consulting firm, LRM Consulting LLC, has provided Luis a wide range of experiences with a special focus on FDA regulated industries. As a multi-lingual statistician (English, Spanish and Portuguese), Luis has helped international laboratories and manufacturing plants implement experimental designs and statistical methods. In addition, Luis’s work has been published in the Journal of Periodontology and Journal of Clinical Dentistry.
Luis received his B.A. in Physics and a M.A. in Applied Statistics at Colgate and Columbia University
New Jersey area clients include Colgate-Palmolive, L’Oreal Paris Co and Revlon.
Martin Schad – Boston
Marty brings years of experience creating and developing robust commercial manufacturing processes to JMC Data Experts. He is passionate about robust manufacturing processes because of the tremendous positive impact that they have on a company, its employees, and its customers. Through his current work at MPES Consulting, Marty accelerates the creation of dependable, scalable and profitable processes through the use of data-driven engineering tools.
He holds a BS in Chemistry from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a MS in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Key Boston area clients include Bose, Corning Inc, Sycamore Networks and Newport Corporation.
Tamela Serensits – State College, Pa
Tamela is the founder and CEO of Argolytics, LLC a Pennsylvania start-up developing quality control apps for small and medium-size manufacturers. In support of Argolytics, Tamela has recently consulted on several projects including development of an online Six Sigma certification curriculum, data analysis and reporting toward a CMMC Level V certification, and a National Science Foundation funded project to explore quality control in Additive Manufacturing/ 3D Printing. Prior to entrepreneurship, she worked for 10 years at Minitab, where she advised numerous quality improvement professionals in addition to regular speaking engagements. T
Tamela holds a Masters degree in Applied Statistics from Penn State University and is a veteran of the US Navy.
Jacob Chacko – Columbus
Lou Johnson – Pittsburgh
Lou brings 30 years of process engineering and statistical consulting experience to JMC. As a Master Black Belt for Corning, Inc., he led a Six Sigma deployment that significantly increased productivity and reduced costs. Since then, at Minitab Inc., he has consulted and trained with over 100 companies, from Arrow to Xerox. He is the author of over 75 training manuals, papers and conference presentations on Lean Six Sigma, Design of Experiments, Quality Tools and Statistical Analysis for engineers.
Lou holds degrees in Chemistry, Education, Chemical Engineering and Statistics from the University of Illinois and Penn State as well as Black Belt and Master Black Belt certification from ASQ.
Pittsburgh area clients include U.S. Steel, Vocollect Inc, PPG Industries, Bayer and Goodyear.