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Michael O'Connell has more than 20 years experience in applied statistics, informatics and software development. He has published many papers on graphical statistics, data mining and pattern recognition including applications in health services, environmental sciences, ecology, agriculture, microbiology, genomics, drug delivery, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and manufacturing. Prior to starting Waratah Corp. he worked for 8 years at Becton Dickinson in statistics and product development, most recently running programs in Communications and Information Technology. In this capacity he led the Becton Dickinson Intranet effort, managing and developing a number of global web applications for a user group of approximately 10,000 Becton Dickinson associates. Dr. O'Connell has been active in the American Statistical Association throughout the 1990's, particularly in the areas of Computational and Graphical Statistics and Health Services Research; and he is a past-president of the NC ASA Chapter. His 1993 paper with Russ Wolfinger, "Generalized Linear Mixed Models: a Pseudo-likelihood Approach" and its accompanying SAS MACRO GLIMMIX have become standard methodology for the analysis of repeated measures and random effects data with discrete responses in the biostatistics and clinical research community. His 1997 paper, also with Wolfinger, "Spatial Regression Models, Response Surfaces and Process Optimization", was named best paper by the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and was featured on the cover. Dr. O'Connell has developed several statistical software packages, including S+DOX, a graphical experimental design and analysis package, marketed by MathSoft; and shareware statistical software solutions for curve fitting and calibration. Michael and the Waratah team provide end-to-end software solutions for on-line data mining and statistical reporting using sophisticated statistical and graphical engines in combination with industrial-strength databases/middleware and streamlined user interfaces. Dr. O'Connell graduated with B.Sc. at University of Sydney, M.S. in Statistics from University of New South Wales and Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University. He is also currently Adjunct Professor, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, is on the scientific board of MathSoft and is an associate editor of the Journal of Statistical Modelling. | 