Richard is an experienced professional in the design of measurement platforms that turn big data into meaningful business intelligence. His success comes from a diverse background and education that combines business acumen, statistical modeling, and operations awareness.  From this foundation, he designs logical and compelling theory and models that extract value from big data.  Richard's approach focuses on building models that meet the strictest data quality standards and then works closely with data engineers to integrate models and insights into pragmatic Business Intelligence (BI) tools and production systems.Richard has an accomplished career in research planning, project execution, and systems development. Throughout, he has demonstrated strategic and tactical leadership in cross functional teams to develop and understand data while building statistical models for prediction and segmentation.  Richard's affable demeanor and leadership style works to delegate responsibility and garner participation while encouraging, supporting and enabling others to unfold their full potential and abilities.Selected Accomplishments:Operationalized high-speed vehicle telemetry data to crowd-sense driving environments with a flexible data model supporting analytics, prediction, monitoring, routing, and other applications improving driver experiences and safety.Built a monitoring system that indirectly assesses fuel estimation performance using telematics data with applied decision science methods for analysis and root cause investigations.Designed enterprise platforms that integrate customer experience perceptions with behavioral, CRM, and financial data for operations benchmarking, analysis, and linkage investigations.Developed statistical code to assess measurement model performance against scientific standards in data quality and led the code implementation to create on-demand diagnostic reports for model management.Designed an enterprise solution to streamline efforts across three operational platforms that reduced costs while simultaneously improving data integrity and accuracy.Managed and expanded a world-wide measurement program for the US armed services, MWR operations, and Quality of Life.