Annie Zangi is approaching 25 years of JMP service and nearly 30 years at SAS.
Annie (@AnnieDudley) was originally hired by John Sall as the only tester for JMP (version 3) and has also worked in Tech Support on behalf of JMP. She is now best known as the Senior Research Statistician Developer behind the Control Chart Builder platform. We value and celebrate our colleague for her many contributions!
Annie recently cut her hair and donated it to "Wigs for Kids."Annie recently cut her hair and donated it to "Wigs for Kids."Annie recently cut her hair and donated it to "Wigs for Kids."Annie has both an undergraduate degree and a master's degree in statistics from Virginia Tech. In high school, Annie's father bought a farm. Before ever taking a statistics course, she convinced him to try different combinations of strawberry varieties and farming methods in a systematic, but randomized order. In her fourth year of college, Annie took a design of experiments course and learned she had used a split-plot design.
"Personally, I wish I had studied statistics in primary school," says Annie. "While I later learned I was running sound experimental designs, I was sometimes not analyzing them efficiently or correctly. If I had the right tools, I think I would have made it much further in science. I think it’s important for everyone to have a statistical education sufficient enough to be able to apply it as easily as they would math or reading."
For fun, Annie is a master gardener and says: "I will probably always love gardening and still continue to run my little experiments to see which species and varieties grow better in different conditions."
It looks like statistics and experimentation come naturally to Annie! Let's get to know more about her...
Lightning Round
Where were you born?
Heilbronn, Germany
What was your first job?
Mowing lawns & general landscaping
What's the best thing about your current job?
Developing a product that helps researchers and engineers
List three of your favorite hobbies.
Gardening, yoga, piano
Describe yourself in three words.
Alternative, left, hippy
What book are you reading?
Journey to the West
What is your favorite movie genre?
Artsy
What is the first web page you go to when you start work?
inside.sas.com
If you could have a dinner party with five famous people, who would they be?
I don't really like famous people.
Name one JMP-related achievement that you're proud of.
Double-click on the histogram bars.
Name one thing most of your colleagues would be surprised to know.
I hiked Mount Fuji when it was closed.
Name one other person in the division who you admire and describe why in three sentences or fewer.
How is this not a trick question? We all admire our boss, and we all admire John Sall. Personally, I admire each and every one of my coworkers for contributing to both a great work environment and a stellar software product.
This or That?
What does Annie prefer?
- A mountain holiday OVER sea-side
- Dogs OVER cats
- Tea OVER coffee
- Graph Builder OVER JSL
- Picnic OVER restaurant
- Pie OVER cake
- Morning OVER late night
- Introvert OVER ambivert or extrovert
- Silly OVER serious
- Low-tech OVER high-tech
For a Q&A with Annie, read this blog post from the SAS loves stats series.
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And she is a veteran! Thank you for your service! Great profile!
Love that you donated your hair!!! You look beautiful!
I met Annie before I worked at SAS. She came with a party from JMP to Abbott Labs for one of the very first "JMP Days." I am still learning from you after all these years. Congratulations on this profile!
Love that you are a master gardener, Annie, and that you did a DOE on strawberries before you knew about such methods!
Fun fact: I was also born in Heilbronn
Thanks for sharing this great profile of Annie! In addition to being a master gardener with the most gorgeous flowers you'll ever see, she is also the most fearless home construction DIYer I know! 
