Luis Mateo
Luis Mateo, Technical Training Specialist
Luis has more than seven years of experience applying statistics to improve the quality of consumer products at global companies such as Colgate-Palmolive, Unilever Research, and PepsiCo. He has designed and analyzed experiments in a variety of product categories and worked in many areas, including clinical research, fabric development, product development, product claims development, and consumer/sensory sciences.
As a multi-lingual statistician (English, Spanish, and Portuguese), Luis has helped international laboratories implement experimental designs and statistical methods of analyses. He has also taught scientists, engineers, and clinicians how to design and analyze their own experiments and studies, and established corporate statistical guidelines for product claims.
One of the things Luis enjoys most about training is empowering professionals to solve their company's quality improvement problems. He understands that many training attendees find statistics overwhelming, and responds by keeping his instruction very practical. "When I teach people to use Minitab, I avoid lots of unnecessary theoretical jargon," he says. "My goals for them when they finish the course are to know how to use the software back at their jobs and to feel confident doing their own analyses."
Luis received his B.A. in Physics from Colgate University in 1995 and his M.A. in Applied Statistics from Columbia University in 1998.