Jim Colton

Jim Colton, Technical Training Specialist

Recent clients: FP&L, Motorola, Dell.

Strength: Extensive statistical education with a wide variety of practical experiences.

As an undergraduate statistics major at The Rochester Institute of Technology, Jim spent summers developing his industrial statistics skills at Xerox, IBM, and ITT Hartford Insurance. "Seeing real world applications of statistics while taking coursework allowed me to put the statistical theory in proper context," he says.

After receiving his BS in statistics in 1992, Jim spent the next year finishing his MS in statistics at R.I.T's Center for Quality and Applied Statistics. He spent the next three years doing Ph.D. work in statistics at The University of Washington and The Ohio State University where he specialized in experimental design, reliability, and generalized linear models. While at Ohio State, Jim further developed his industrial skills at Kellogg's, where he designed and analyzed sensory experiments.

Jim spent the next two years in South Florida working as an Engineering Statistician at Pratt & Whitney where he specialized in simulation, reliability, and teaching experimental design to engineers. "Working daily with product developers at Kellogg's and engineers at Pratt & Whitney," Jim says, "forced me to learn how to explain statistics in practical terms."

Jim has more than 9 years experience conducting Minitab training sessions and has provided mentoring services to individual customers for over 3 years.