You may know Sam already. Whether or not you do, read on. You may learn something about our new Health and Life Sciences Product Manager!
Sam's family at his daughter's wedding.Sam's family at his daughter's wedding.Sam Gardner (@SamGardner) is an industrial statistician with experience in pharma and chemical manufacturing and process development. Over the years, he has run a statistics consultancy and led experimental design and statistics at Elanco. He worked at Eli Lilly – twice. And now he can say he’s worked at JMP twice (previously Sam was a Systems Engineer and a member of Global Technical Enablement). Before that, Sam served in the US Air Force in the capacity of human factors, threat simulations and statistics instruction.
In his product manager role, he’ll focus on the needs of current and future JMP users in the Health and Life Sciences area and how we can continue to improve the capabilities of JMP to meet those needs.
“It is a great organization to work for, and I am looking forward to reconnecting with my former JMP colleagues and getting to know all the new faces at JMP since I was last there,” said Sam.
“So glad to have Sam back in the JMP family, although in spirit he never really left!” says Principal Product Manager Mia Stephens (@mia_stephens).
“I had the pleasure of working with Sam on the development of our book Building Better Models (BBM), which borrowed its name from a popular webinar series Sam helped to develop during his tenure with the Field Enablement Team.
“We’re working on a second edition of BBM (due out in late 2022), and I’m beyond excited to be working with Sam in Product Management as he helps set the vision and roadmaps for the JMP Life Science products.”
Lightning Round
Where were you born?
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
What was your first job?
Cook at Hardees Restaurant
In one word, what's the best thing about your current job?
I get to be involved with a wide variety of issues and to help set the future roadmap for JMP products.
List three of your favorite hobbies.
Boardgaming, smoking meat, house remodeling
Describe yourself in three words.
Learner, teacher, explainer
What book are you reading?
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy - Lesser Evil (Star Wars extended universe story)
What is your favorite movie genre?
Science Fiction
What is the first web page you go to when you start work?
community.jmp.com
If you could have a dinner party with five famous people, who would they be?
Lieutenant Gardner in his dress uniform.Lieutenant Gardner in his dress uniform.Robert Downey Jr, Warren Buffett, Mike Rowe, Russ Roberts, Hanna Fry (I know that is an eclectic list!)
What is your favorite podcast to listen to?
EconTalk
Name one JMP-related achievement that you're proud of.
Publishing Building Better Models with JMP Pro
Name one thing most of your colleagues would be surprised to know.
At the beginning of my career, I was an officer in the US Air Force. I worked as a military analyst and I gained experience and expertise in weapon systems modeling, operational test and evaluation, flight data collection systems, helmet mounted displays, human effectiveness/human factors.
Name one other person in the division who you admire and describe why in three sentences or fewer.
It is hard to name just one, so I will pick one of my favorite JMP colleagues: Chuck Boiler (@chuck_boiler). I love his way of working with people and his kind and caring personality.
This or That?
What does Sam prefer?
- A seaside holiday OVER mountains
- Cats OVER dogs
- Coffee OVER tea
- Graph Builder OVER JSL
- Restaurant OVER picnic
- Pie OVER cake
- Morning OVER late night
- Ambivert OVER extrovert or introvert
- Silly OVER serious
- High-tech OVER low-tech
By the way, Sam lists his favorite podcast above. But we should mention he’s been known to host podcasts too. Listen to him on this episode of The Effective Statistician on the topic of statistical engineering.
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Love, love, love Sam and his self assessment is true, he is a great teacher and explainer!
Welcome back, Sam. I agree with you, Chuck always sees the best in people. Wonderful quality.
