PATRICIA L. SMITHPAGE 1

PATRICIA L. SMITH, PH. D.

9303 Salisbury Ave.806-778-0224

Lubbock, TX

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SUMMARY

Six Sigma and Process Improvement Specialist / Trainer / Statistician / with strong team leadership and facilitation experience. Significant experience demonstrating business and financial links to statistical analysis, database management, and design of experiments. Exceptional process improvement track record. Excellent communication skills. Ability to work with professionals at all levels of the corporation. Strong applied research background with extensive business experience. Five years of training and consulting experience with Six Sigma.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Process Improvement and Statistical Analysis

  • Reduced the variability of vendor product through customer-supplier partnership.
  • Designed and conducted experiments to assess sampling techniques and protocols which resulted in continuous plant savings due to improved sampling accuracy.
  • Facilitated Root Cause Analysis with a production team and solved a problem of no on-spec production that had led to lost customers and 5 months’ lost revenue.
  • Reduced off-spec production, blending, and scrap as part of a select team on a key temporary assignment for the plant improvement strategy.
  • Coordinated statistical aspects of lab quality control automation in two refineries through implementation of LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) software eliminating duplicate data entry and improving SPC.
  • Certified through BSI as Lead ISO Auditor with auditing experience.

Research

  • Developed theory, designed, and wrote Fortran program for statistical curve fitting using splines. The methodology was subsequently adapted by professors at Stanford and Berkeley for the widely applied statistical technique MARS (Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines).
  • Over 40 publications and presentations in internationally recognized scientific journals and conferences, technical reports in industry and NASA, and invited talks at university colloquia.

Sampling Methodology

  • Published an introductory book on sampling techniques and protocols: A Primer for Sampling Solids, Liquids, and Gases: Based on the Seven Sampling Errors of Pierre Gy.
  • Developed a short course approved by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for continuing education credits in selected job categories.
  • Documented savings with improved sampling procedures.

French

  • Speak conversational French as well as the special terminology of statistics, sampling, and Six Sigma.
  • Managed a project and vetted material for an English to French translation of Six Sigma materials.

SPECIAL SKILLS

Quality

  • 2002 and 2003 Examiner for the Baldrige National Quality Award.
  • 2003 Examiner for the Texas Award for Performance Excellence.
  • Lead ISO (International Standards Organization) Auditor certified through BSI (British Standards Institution) with auditing experience.

Teaching and Training

  • Teach Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt courses in industry for Fortune 500 Companies. Major clients include GE, Johnson&Johnson, Gateway, First Data, and Celanese.
  • Teach an annual Six Sigma course for MBA and Ph.D. business students at Texas Tech.
  • Teach a short course on bulk sampling for Texas Commission on Environmental Quality continuing education credit.
  • Taught university graduate and undergraduate courses in applied statistical methods, regression, linear models, and nonparametric statistics, while in academics.
  • Taught statistical short courses in regression, designed experiments, lab and process SPC, and bulk sampling methodology, while in industry.
  • Developed and taught short courses for in-house software for lab and production data, while in industry.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX,

Dissertation title: Some Problems in Multivariate Analysis.

M.S., Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

B.A., Mathematics, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX.

Year in Nantes, France, 1966-67, studying math and French.

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Texas A&M Department of Statistics: Hartley Award for distinguished service to the discipline of statistics.
  • Shell Companies: President’s Award, Champions of Quality Award, Special Recognition Award.
  • NASA Grant Principal Investigator and NASA-ASEE Faculty Research Fellow.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX2002-present
Adjunct and Research Professor, College of Business Administration

Statistical Consultant, Lubbock, TX1999-present
Training and Consulting

Shell Oil Companies, Houston, TX1985 - 1999
Research Mathematician, Statistician, and Senior Reliability Engineer

Computer Dynamics, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA1982 - 1985

Site Manager, Systems Administrator, Applications Programmer, Computer Operator

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA1980 - 1982

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada1979
Visiting Research Professor
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX1976 - 1979

Assistant Professor of Statistics

PRESENTATIONS

  1. The Selection of Variables by Groups. Wright State Symposium on Applications of Statistics, Dayton, June 1976.
  1. Testing for the Equality of the Variance-covariance Matrices of Two Jointly Normal Vector Variables. Institute of Mathematical Statistics Meeting, Seattle, August 1977.
  1. Variable Selection With User Input. Old Dominion University Colloquium, Norfolk, March 1979.
  1. Some Applications of Splines in Statistics, Montana State Colloquium, Bozeman, June 1979.
  1. Variable Substitution: The Use of Surrogate Variables for Prediction. American Statistical Association National Meeting, Houston, August 1980.
  1. Splines and B-splines in Regression and Hypothesis Testing, NASA Langley Research Center Colloquium, Hampton, January 1981.
  1. The Use of Splines in Stepwise Regression for the Determination of an Airplane Model from Flight Test Data. NASA Langley Research Center Colloquium, Hampton, July 1981.
  1. Estimating Aerodynamic Coefficients Using Stepwise Regression on a Spline-modified Taylor Series Expansion. American Statistical Association Regional Meeting, San Antonio, March 1982.
  1. Curve Fitting and Modeling with Splines Using Statistical Variable Selection Techniques. NASA Langley Research Center Briefing, Hampton, August 1982.
  1. Applications of Regression Splines. Shell Development Company, Houston, September 1985.
  1. Quality Assurance in an Analytical Chemistry Laboratory and the Role of Statistics. Rice University, November 1992.
  1. Bulk Sampling of Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Houston Area Chapter of ASA, February 1996.
  1. Overview of Sampling Bulk Materials Using the 7 Sampling Errors of Pierre Gy. American Statistical Association Joint Meetings, Atlanta, August 2001.
  1. An Overview of Sampling Bulk Materials and the Fallacy of Random Sampling. Baylor University, Waco, Texas, March 2002.
  1. The Fallacy of Random Sampling From Bulk Materials. University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, September 2002.
  1. Opportunities with Six Sigma. Texas Tech University’s 19th Annual All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education, March 28, 2003. With Lenore Dai.
  1. Increasing Yields Through Improved Sampling. Applied Manufacturing Conference, Houston, Texas, April 28-29, 2003.
  1. Audit and Assessment of Sampling Systems. First World Conference on Sampling and Blending, Esbjerg, Denmark, August 20-21, 2003.
  1. Six Sigma and Project Management. Northeast Florida Project Management Institute Chapter Meeting, Jacksonville, Florida, September 15, 2003.
  1. Six Sigma and Academic Courses. University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, September 16, 2003.
  1. From Random Sampling to Correct Sampling: Improving Quality by Improving Bulk Sampling. Fall Technical Conference of the American Society for Quality, El Paso, Texas, October 17, 2003.
  1. Six Sigma and Process Improvement. Lubbock Chapter of the American Production and Inventory Control Society, Lubbock, Texas, October 28, 2003.
  1. Principles and Practices for Correct Sampling and the Impact on Statistical Data Quality. A workshop presented at the EPA Conference on Managing Environmental Quality, Tampa, Florida, April 15-16, 2004.
  1. Six Sigma Analytics and Metrics. Northeast Florida Project Management Institute Chapter Meeting, Jacksonville, Florida, April 26, 2004.
  1. Six Sigma, Process Improvement, and Improved Customer Relationships. Association of Water Technologies, Nashville, Tennessee, November 5, 2004.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Gentle, James E., Kodell, Ralph L., and Smith, Patricia L. (1975). On the Distribution of the Studentized Bivariate Range. Technometrics 17, 501-505.
  1. Smith, Patricia L. (1976). Letter to the Editor. Technometrics 18, 365.
  1. Hartfiel, D. J. and Smith, Patricia L. (1979). Remarks on the Rows and Columns of P in the Matrix Equation A=PP*. Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal 29 (104), 57-61.
  1. Smith, Patricia L. (1979). Splines as a Useful and Convenient Statistical Tool. The American Statistician 33, 57-62.
  1. Smith, Patricia L. and Smith, Philip W. (1979). Empirical Stopping Rules for Data Fitting by Splines. Proceedings of the 1979 Army Numerical Analysis and Computer Conference, ARO Report 79-3, 449-456.
  1. Smith, Patricia L. (1981). The Use of Analysis of Covariance to Analyze Data From Designed Experiments with Missing or Mixed-up Values. Applied Statistics 30, 1-8.
  1. Eubank, R. L., Smith, P. L., and Smith, P. W. (1981). Uniqueness and Eventual Uniqueness of Optimal Designs in Some Time Series Models. The Annals of Statistics 9, 486-493.
  1. Eubank, R. L., Smith, P. L., and Smith, P. W. (1981). Uniqueness and Eventual Uniqueness of Optimal Designs in Some Time Series Models, II. Tech. Report 150. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
  1. Murphree, S. A., Tritton, T. R., Smith, P. L., and Sartorelli, A. C. (1981). Adriamycin-Induced Changes on the Surface Membrane of Sarcoma 180 Ascites Cells. Biochimica Biophysica Acta 649, 317-324.
  1. Smith, P. L. (1982). Hypothesis Testing in B-spline Regression. Communications in Statistics, 11(2), 143-157.
  1. Eubank, R. L., Smith, P. L., and Smith, P. W. (1982). On the Computation of Optimal Designs for Certain Time Series Models with Applications to Optimal Quantile Selection for Location and Scale Parameter Estimation. SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, 3, 238-249.
  1. Eubank, R. L., Smith, P. L., and Smith, P. W. (1982). A Note on Optimal and Asymptotically Optimal Designs for Certain Time Series Models. The Annals of Statistics 10, 1295-1301.
  1. Smith, P. L. (1982). Curve Fitting and Modeling with Splines Using Statistical Variable Selection Techniques. NASA Contractor Report 166034.
  1. Smith, Patricia L. and Kshirsagar, Anant M. (1985). Testing for the Equality of the Variance-covariance Matrices of Two Jointly Normal Vector Variables. Biometrical Journal 27, 581-589.
  1. 10 Internal Technical Research Reports at Shell (1985-1999).
  1. Smith, Patricia L. (2001). A Primer for Sampling Solids, Liquids, and Gases: Based on the Seven Sampling Errors of Pierre Gy. Philadelphia: SIAM-ASA, 96 pages.
  1. Smith, Patricia L. (2001). Book Review of Geostatistical Error Measurement: Quantifying Uncertainty for Environmental Sampling and Mapping, in Technometrics, 43, 238-239.
  1. Smith, Patricia L. (2004). Audit and Assessment of Sampling Systems. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 74, pp. 225-230.