About Us: Leadership

For almost 3 decades Wayne Levin has worked with a variety of management, engineering and technical staff to improve their operations by way of applied statistical methods. Wayne was certified as an instructor with SAS Institute for JMP® in 1997 and has conducted dozens of courses in statistical methods every year since. He graduated from the University of Toronto in Industrial Engineering with a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Wayne is an active part of most major client projects and a contributing member of our team vis a vis the re-engineering of our training offerings.

Diana Ballard received her M.S in Statistics from University of Texas at Austin in 1994. She has worked as a statistician in the semiconductor industry for many years. For the past seven years, she has been consulting and giving statistics training to a broader audience in additional to semiconductor, including human resources, finance, supply chain management, sales, marketing and logistics. Her research interests include design of experiments, including split plot designs, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis, and other areas of industrial statistics.

Diana provides statistical guidance in all our projects and is leading the effort to build our next generation, integrated training materials for live training and e-learning.

Dr. Michael E. Haslam was most recently an Engineering Manager, Member of the Technical Staff and Six Sigma Master Black Belt at National Semiconductor Corporation in Arlington, Texas. Joining National in 1988, Dr. Haslam held a variety of positions in both R&D and manufacturing. His areas of responsibility have included new process development, quality and yield improvement, process control, process improvement, product improvement, operations management and engineering management.

Dr. Haslam has taught extensively in the areas of Engineering Data Analysis, Process Control, Risk Analysis and Six Sigma. Most recently, he has built a wide variety of engineering productivity and data analysis tools using the JMP platform. He received his BS, M-Eng and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, concentrating in Solid State Physics and Semiconductor Wafer Processing. He holds several patents in the area of Semiconductor Processing.

Michael’s recent projects have centered on Operations Intelligence Systems in Life Sciences, Manufacturing and Marketing.

Philip Brown has more than 10 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He has worked in areas of device, test and reliability engineering at Motorola and later developed several engineering applications based on JMP at Intel.

Philip’s recent development projects include; supplier quality in semiconductor, process simulation in the service industry and leading a major project in Chemical R&D. He has almost 10 years experience using JSL and is an expert in the language. He also has experience with other languages including Visual Basic, C# and PHP. Philip holds a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and M.Sc. degree in electrical/materials engineering. (He also member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu). Philip has co-authored 10 papers.