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Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Brian Adams
Senior Member of Technical Staff Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation; Sandia National Laboratories
Jeffrey Zane Anderson
Industrial Engineer; Commonwealth Aluminum Corporation
#Alysia Appell
Senior Analyst; Northwest Airlines
P. Darcy Barnett
Computer Scientist; National Institute of Standards and Technology
Carl M. Beaird
Mathematician; Rockwell International Corporation
Cherryl Beeman
Electronic Commerce Specialist; The Kodiak Group
Betsy Bennett
Private School Teacher; St. Albans School, Washington, DC
#Nick Bennett
Research Scientist; Schlumberger
Jonathan G. Blattmachr
Partner; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York and Los Angeles
#Mary Bonar
Emergency Medicine Physician; Pinnacle Hospital, Harrisburg, PA
Ron Bousquet
R&D Project Manager; Hewlett-Packard Company
Margaret L. Brandeau
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering; Stanford University
Judith R. Brown
Manager, Advanced Research Computing Services; The University of Iowa
Denise Cammarata
Senior Engineer; Westinghouse Wireless Solutions Company
Cora L. Carmody
Manager of Systems Engineering; PRC, Inc.
Jessie Caruso
Senior Systems Integrator; CollabraSpace, Inc.
Jack Cassidy
Engineer Scientist, Firmware; Hewlett-Packard
Shane Chalke
Actuary/Business Owner; Chalke, Inc.
Judith E. Chapman
Senior Software Engineer; Harris Scientific Calculations
Samson Cheung
Research Scientist; MCAT Institute, NASA Ames Research Center
Yves Chiricota
Professor; Université du Québec á Chicoutimi
#Megan Christensen
Risk Analyst; Travelers Insurance
#Andrea Cook
Employee Benefits Consultant; Plante & Moran, PLLC
James L. Cooley
Aerospace Mathematician; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Mary K. Cooney
Mathematics Editor; Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Jeff Cooper
Corporate Technical Developer; P.H. Glatfelter Company
Joe Corrigan
Project Mathematics!
H. Michael Covert
Senior Computer Systems Specialist; Chemical Abstracts Service
Sarah Cullen
Senior Professional Relations Representative; Bay State Health Care
Allison DeLong
Marine Research Associate; University of Rhode Island
Janet P. DenBleyker
Assistant Actuary; Buck Consultants
Mark Derwin
Susan J. Devlin
Director–Measurements Research; Bellcore
J. Wanzer Drane
Professor of Biostatistics; University of South Carolina School of Public Health
Arnitra Duckett
Educational Markets Manager; Texas Instruments, Incorporated
Paula Duckett
Elementary School Mathematics Specialist
Yawa Duse-Anthony
Senior Associate; KKO and Associates
M. Scott Elliott
Operations Research Analyst; FedEx Corporation
#Katie Evans
Assistant Professor; Louisiana Tech University
Helaman Ferguson
Sculptor
Rol Fessenden
Director of Inventory Control; L.L. Bean
#Kathie Flood 84
Program Manager; Microsoft Games Studio
#Sara Ford
Software Design Engineer in Test; Microsoft Corporation
Richard D. Fuhr
Senior Engineer; Electronic Data Systems
Holly Gaff
Graduate Research Associate; University of Tennessee
Marshall B. Garrison
Principal Software Engineer; PictureTel Corporation
#Allen Gibson
Instructor; Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University
Ruth Gonzalez
Research Specialist; Exxon Production Research Company
Douglas A. Gray
Senior Consultant; American Airlines Decision Technologies
Cynthia Carter Haddock
Professor and Academic Program Director; University of Alabama at Birmingham
Charles R. Hadlock
Professor of Mathematics; Bentley College
Charles Hagwood
Mathematician; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
John F. Hamilton
Research Associate; Eastman Kodak Company
William D. Hammers
Chief Financial Officer; Optimal Solutions
#Jeff Hand
Senior Physics Engineer; Raytheon
Carl M. Harris
Professor and Operations Researcher; George Mason University
Mary Hesselgrave
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff; Lucent Technologies Bell Labs
Jerry W. Highfill
Mathematical Statistician; United States Environmental Protection Laboratory
#Matthew D. Janssen
Commercial Litigation Attorney; Pepper Hamilton LLP
Richard Järvinen
Professor and Consultant; Winona State University and NASA
#Captain C.J. Jaynes
PMA 213 Program Manager; United States Navy
Denise Ann Johnston
Instructor and Consultant on Quality Control ; Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
Patricia H. Jones
Professor and Chair; Methodist College
Marcia P. Kastner
Research Scientist; Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Sherra E. Kerns
Professor and Chair; Vanderbilt University
Gary Kim
Accounting Manager; Perdue Farms Incorporated
#Greg King
Teacher; Dublin City Schools
Kay Strain King
Senior Environmental Mathematician; Theta Engineering, Inc.
Karen M. Kneisel
Project Manager; Otis Elevator Company
#John Kuchenbrod
Project Team Manager; The MITRE Corporation
Janice A. Kulle
Senior Product Actuary; The Baltimore Life Insurance Company
Kimberly A. Kuntz
Senior Systems Engineer; Electronic Data Systems
Michael H. Kutner
Chairman, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology; The Cleveland Clinic
Foundation
Donna F. Lawson
Economist; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Christopher M. Legault
Research Fishery Biologist; NOAA Fisheries
Loren Mernoff Lewin
Senior Systems Engineer; Telcordia Technologies
Mike Lieber
Biostatistician; Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Peter A. Lindstrom
Retired Professor of Mathematics; North Lake College
#Dan Loeb
Quantitative Research Department; Susquehanna International Group
Tammy M. Lofton
Actuarial Assistant; Nationwide Insurance Company
#Valerie Lopez-Zinzer, A.S.A
Actuarial Associate; Watson Wyatt
Christopher M. Luczynski
Senior Associate Engineer; Mask House, IBM
#Chad Magers
Scientist; Naval Surface Warfare Center
Carol J. Mandell
Market Researcher; Corporate Software, Inc.
#Carla D. Martin
Assistant Professor; James Madison University
Patrick Dale McCray
Systems Project Leader; G.D. Searle & Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto
Jennifer E. McLean
Member of Technical Staff; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Juan C. Meza
Numerical Analyst; Sandia National Laboratories
Michael G. Monticino
Associate Professor; University of North Texas
S. Brent Morris
Mathematician; National Security Agency
William D. Murphy
Applied Mathematician ; Rockwell International Science Center
Michael J. Murray
Java Developer; IBM Global Services
Deenanne Kay Myers
Product Analyst; AIG Specialty Auto
Joan Peters Ogden
Consulting Actuary; Joan Ogden Actuaries
Edna Lee Paisano
Statistician; Bureau of the Census
#Amanda Peterson
Modeling and Simulation Analyst; Dynamic Research Corporation
Bruce A. Powell
Manager, Group Control; Otis Elevator Company
Marla Prenger
Associate Scientist; Procter and Gamble
Edward H. Preston
Sr. Information Systems Engineer; MITRETEK Systems, Inc.
Fred L. Preston
Systems Engineer; Lucent Technologies
Diane R. Purcell
Financial Analyst; KeyCorp
#Amanda Quiring
Project Manager; International Accounting Standards Board
Laura Readdy
Advanced Systems Engineer; Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS)
Brian D. Repp
Senior Data Math Analyst; Bendix Field Engineering Corporation
Mark A. Reynolds
Operations Research Manager; USAir, Inc.
Nancy K. Roderer
Director; Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
Peter Rosenthal
Professor; University of Toronto
David S. Ross
Research Associate; Eastman Kodak Company
Edward Rothstein
Cultural Critic-At-Large; New York Times
Christine Rutch
Associate Statistician; Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Bonita V. Saunders
Mathematician; National Institute of Standards and Technology
Julie Scarpa
Mathematics Product Manager; Prentice Hall School Division
Jeffrey A. Schneider
Secondary Mathematics Teacher; Eden Prairie High School
Joel Schneider
Vice President for Education and Research; Square One TV: Children’s Television Workshop
Deborah A. Southan
Scientific Systems Programmer; Bendix Field Engineering Corporation
Mitchell Stabbe
Partner; Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, PLLC
Arthur P. Staddon
Clinical Associate Professor; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
#Courtney Stephens
Senior Commercial Analyst; The Americas Marathon Oil Company
Robert L. Stewart
NASA Astronaut/Director of Advanced Programs; Nichols Research Corporation
Mary Kay Esworthy Stiles
Marketing Specialist/Claims Manager; Riedman Insurance
Kathy Haas Stukus
Member Technical Staff; AT&T Network Systems
Lisa M. Sullivan
Senior Budget Analyst; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Department of the Navy
Elizabeth Sweet
Mathematical Statistician; Bureau of the Census
Julie S. Tarwater
Quality Control Manager; Biles & Associates
Debra W. Taufen
Marketing Manager; IBM Corporation
Frederick C. Taverner
District Systems Engineering Manager; Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Mark P. Terry
Systems Engineer; Trident Systems Incorporated
Jill L. Tolle
Senior Statistician; I.M.S. America
Lisa M. Tonder
Principal Statistician; Medtronic, Inc.
#Jane Turnbull
Assistant Vice President; Equifax
Sue E. Waldman
Mathematician; US Department of Agriculture
#Rodney B. Wallace
Technical Solutions Manager; IBM
Martha Weeks
Computer Marketing Consultant; Self-employed
Benjamin E. Weiss
Imaging Scientist; MetaCreations Corp.
Faedra Lazar Weiss
Research Associate; Girls Incorporated National Research Center
Michael D. Weiss
Agricultural Economist; US Department of Agriculture
Gary L. Welz
Director of Corporate Business Development; THINK New Ideas
Dan C. White
Actuary
Paul Willoughby
Lead Software Analyst; PRB-COMPTEK Systems
Sandra L. Winkler
Research Scientist; Ford Motor Company
Sarah Adams Yeary
Technical Lead; Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management
#James W. Yen
Area Development Manager; GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines
#Joyce W. Yen
Program/Research Manager; ADVANCE Program, University of Washington
Yvonne Zhou
Software Engineer; Cray Research, Inc.
Yaromyr Andrew Zinkewych
Troubleshooter; Hubble Space Telescope
Paul Zorn
Professor; St. Olaf College
Appendices
Seven Steps to Finding a Job
Interviewing Tips from the Pros
So You Want to Work in Industry
Teamwork—The Special Challenge of Industry
Degrees Earned by Mathematics Majors