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About Us
Access Analytics Vision & Leadership
Our Vision
Access Analytics will work with your company to identify, build, team to create, or simply help you to deploy those analytics that will enable increased productivity, or improved products. Our goal is to provide you access to analytics.
Leadership
Dan'l Pierce, PhD, MBA
Chief Executive Officer and President
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Dan’l has led several organizations in aiding companies to advance their use of analytics to enable increased productivity, improve product performance, all while simplifying underlying processes and approaches.
Dan’l has been involved in helping businesses successfully use analytics for over 20 years. From his early school days of forecasting disk drive usage for a small company, to working for SAS while acquiring his PhD, right through driving Access Analytics to enable a wide range of companies to have increased success through analytics execution. This has included several wide ranging efforts along the way.
Dan’l has been involved in business development for Cray Inc, advancing their ability to have their computing platforms used for more analytics. He has also worked with Intel Corporation focusing on high performance computing again to enable a broader usage and acceptance of advanced analytical methods.
Prior to his work focusing on the high performance computing market, Dan’l was Senior Vice President at Washington Mutual’s Commercial Bank and later for Washington Mutual’s sub-prime lending institution, Long Beach Mortgage Company. In those roles he led the organizations to exploit analytics for improving execution, reducing risk, and aiding in the planning and operations of the bank.
Before joining Washington Mutual, Dan’l was GM of Boeing’s Math and Information Software business which was chartered to commercialize the advanced mathematical and information technology software, developed in Boeing’s Phantom Work’s Math & Computing Technology organization.
A key component of Dan’l’s success has been an understanding of business needs and constraints, together with many years of experience as an applied mathematician. Dan’l began working for The Boeing Company immediately after receiving his PhD and, while at Boeing, he developed world class analysis solutions that had broad application throughout the Boeing enterprise. Knowing what analysis was the right solution for the customer’s situation, was the driving force of the work and research pursued by Dan’l.
Today as Dan’l leads Access Analytics Int’l to aid companies in the easy and cost effective use of analytics in their business, his main concern is that the right analysis be matched to the customer’s needs, and that it be deployed in a manner that makes the most sense for customer’s goals. Dan’l believes that in the end, “analysis is only good when it is beneficial to customer’s business.”
Dan’l received his MBA from The University of Washington in 2004, his PhD in Applied Math from North Carolina State University in 1987, his MS in Mathematics from Northern Illinois University in 1983 and his BS in Computer Science and Mathematics also from Northern Illinois University in 1982.
Contact Dan'l: danl@aanalytics.com
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David R. Ferguson, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Ferguson has a long career in industry developing advanced mathematical solutions for product design and formulation. Of particular focus to Dr. Ferguson was on the geometric design and mathematical representation of parts, much of which was enabled for The Boeing Company to replace the physical mockup of an aerospace vehicle with a digital representation.
Dr. Ferguson left The Boeing Company as a Technical Fellow after 25 years of highly recognized and rewarded contributions leading Boeing’s geometry research team. Before joining The Boeing Company, Dr. Ferguson worked for The Aerospace Corporation with a focus on development programs for mathematical tools to solve corporate problems in orbital mechanics, data modeling and fitting, and
geometric design among others. Dr. Ferguson is driven by an enthusiasm for bringing the right mathematical tools to customers
Dr. Ferguson has also lead many diverse teams to provide advanced analytics solutions to the business place, from developing and deploying new design methods for The Boeing 787 to software standards development. He has also been an active leader amongst researchers, authoring and co-authoring over 25 refereed publications, a common invited speaker to national and international conferences and symposia, serving as editor of two journals, reviewer and
referee on several professional journals, organizing conferences and workshops as well as earlier in his career teaching at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Southern California.
Dr. Ferguson also holds a M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin and a B.S. degree from Seattle University.
Contact Dr. Ferguson: dferguson@aanalytics.com
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Larry McArthur
Senior Business Advisor
Larry McArthur was most recently the Chairman of Greater China for Silicon Graphics Inc. living in Beijing. Additionally, he was responsible for strategic initiatives in the Asia Pacific region for SGI. McArthur was previously senior director of global manufacturing industries marketing for SGI where McArthur was responsible for marketing and business development initiatives significant to SGI’s leadership position in manufacturing sectors such as automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, industrial machinery and shipbuilding.
McArthur’s career includes broad executive-level experience at several global companies, most recently as CEO of GetSilicon, an Internet-based software and services company serving the semiconductor industry and specializing in real-time supply-chain event and execution management. He has served as President and CEO a number of successful companies, directing profitable domestic and international market growth strategies at companies such as The MacNeal Schwendler Company(MNS) NYSE, Aries Technology Corporation and Ascent Logic Corporation. He also has solid experience in marketing and sales to Fortune 1000 and global corporations including Ford, GE, Raytheon, British Aerospace and ABB.
McArthur is a cofounder of the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, where he has served on the board of directors for 16 years. He holds a B.S. from Western Michigan University School of Pulp and Paper Science and Technology.
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Scientific Advisors
Scientific Advisors are experts with worldwide reputations as leaders in their technical fields that provide Access Analytics and its customers with their years of insight and guidance to formulate and deliver the analytic needs to our customers.
Access Analytics Scientific Advisors include:
Marisa Altschul, MSc
Scientific Advisor
Marisa Altschul was employed with The Boeing Company for many years in the areas of process and program management and measurement. Altschul managed the quality compliance of close to 100 financial and satellite computing systems deemed in scope for compliance with the Sarbannes-Oxley Act.
Altschul also managed the implementation of a Center of Excellence for Project management, software architecture and process analysis as core competencies for all business applications in various IT organizations. She managed several projects which consisted for the most part in the replacement of legacy financial systems with new architectures, COTS packages, and included outsourcing IT consultants and contractors.
She is fluent in English and Spanish, has done simultaneous translation in Technical conferences, and is qualified as a bilingual medical interpreter.
Ms. Altschul holds a MSc degree in Operations Research and Management Science from Case Western Reserve University (Multi-project scheduling algorithms), and a MSc in Mathematics from the University of Buenos Aires (Macro and Micro Economic models).
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Roberto Altschul, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Dr. Altschul is presently Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. Previously, Altschul was employed by the Boeing Company as the Senior Manager of Applied Statistics.
While at Boeing, Dr. Altschul provided strategic and technical leadership in development of new methods and tools. Some of the application fields include Data Mining, Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments, Statistics Quality Control for parts with complex geometries, Six-Sigma, Design of experiments applied to wind tunnel and flight tests, Reliability analysis, Financial modeling, Information retrieval, and Statistical methods for Tolerancing.
Dr. Altschul was one of the originators of the first Boeing Data Mining research project. He lead the application of these methods to several projects including Airline Performance, Weather effect on Air Traffic, and the analytical methods for Boeing’s Airplane Health Management service.
Dr. Altschul developed Reliability Models for the Fault Tolerant Systems and Probability Models for Multi-phased Fault Trees. More recently Dr. Altschul developed new techniques for the analysis of airplane reliability data. This work has changed the processes used by MSG, Maintenance Steering Group, to determine the intervals at which scheduled maintenance tasks will be acceptable to the regulatory authorities, the operators, and the manufacturers.
Dr Altschul received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1973 from Case Western Reserve University. He has more than 25 technical publications and reports and is a member of the American Statistical Association.
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Biswa Nath Datta, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Biswa Nath Datta is a Distinguished Research Professor at Northern Illinois University. He is a Professor of Mathematical Sciences and an Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at NIU. Professor Datta held visiting professorship at University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Pennsylvania State University, University of California at San Diego, State University of Campinas, Brazil, as well as at many other universities and research laboratories around the world, including the Boeing Company.
Datta's research interests are interdisciplinary, blending linear and numerical linear algebra with control and systems theory and vibration and structural engineering. He was elected to a Fellow of IEEE in 2000 for his interdisciplinary contributions. He was elected as an "Academician" by the Academy of Nonlinear Sciences in 2002. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and
was awarded IEEE Plaques of Honor by the IEEE Chapter of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 2005, 2006 and by NIU IEEE Chapter in 2005. Among the other prestigious awards and honors received by Professor Datta are the International Federation of Nonlinear Analysis (IFNA) Award in 2001 for
outstanding contributions to mathematics. The Senior Fulbright Specialist Award, by Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB) and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) in 2005. This award is given in US-wide competition and recognizes qualities of excellence and leadership.
Professor Datta's research has been supported by Federal Funding agencies including National Science Foundation (NSF), Airforce Office of Scienti c Research (AFOSR), Office of Naval Research, private companies,the Boeing Company and Wolfram Research Incorporation, and several international granting agencies.
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Dr. Ben Kim
Scientific Advisor
Dr. Kim is Chair of the Management Department, Genevieve Albers Professor and also Director of the Electronic Commerce and Information Systems program at Seattle University.
Before joining Seattle University, Dr. Kim taught at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln for ten years. He holds Ph.D., MBA and BA degrees from the University of Minnesota, University of Washington and Seoul National University, respectively.
Dr. Kim has published more than forty journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters in the areas of information systems and management. He conducted seminars on information systems and corporate strategies for governments and businesses of the United States, Asia and Eastern European countries. Dr. Kim's teaching and research interests include international business with a special focus in East Asia, information systems management, e-commerce, and database systems.
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William Poole, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Dr. William Poole was named professor of software engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Seattle University in 2002. The following year, he became the chair of the department and continues in that position today. In that role, he has been the leader and chief administrative officer of the department as well as the primary representative of the department on campus. Seattle University started the first Master of Software Engineering program over 25 years ago and the recent upgrades to the curriculum improved the program considerably.
In 2001, Poole joined The Cobalt Group, North America's leading provider of automotive marketing services primarily through support of automobile manufacturer and dealer web sites. He was the Director of Project Management in the professional services division.
Previously, Dr. Poole worked with Fine.com Corporation and ARIS Corporation, enterprise-wide and Web computer consulting companies, as Vice President for Professional Services, Director of Project Management and in the marketing department.
Earlier Dr. Poole founded and operated a computer consulting and application development business, Pacific Analysis & Computing, operating in the Puget Sound area for 15 years. This business was merged into fine.com Corporation in 1998.
Poole earlier was an engineer with Boeing Computer Services (1979-1983), participating in the planning of the use of the first Cray super computer at Boeing and participating in the design and maintenance of the Mathematics Software library.
Dr. Poole was Associate Professor and co-developer of the Computer Science program at the College of William and Mary, chair of that institution’s Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and a visiting scientist at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE). He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley as well as BS and MS degrees from the University of Texas, Austin.
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Horst Simon, PhD
Scientific Advisor
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Dr. Horst Simon was named Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for Computing Sciences at Berkeley Lab in 2004. In his role as the ALD for Computing Sciences, Horst represents the interests of the Lab's scientific computing divisions, NERSC and Computational Research, in the formulation of Laboratory policy, and leads the overall direction of the two divisions. He also coordinates constructive interactions within the computing sciences divisions to seek coupling with other scientific programs.
Horst joined LBNL in early 1996 as director of the newly formed NERSC Division, and was one of the key architects in establishing NERSC at its new location in Berkeley. The NERSC Center is DOE's flagship supercomputing facility for unclassified research funded by DOE's Office of Science and is currently supports 2,677 users at more than 300 institutions. Under Horst's leadership, NERSC has enabled important discoveries in fields ranging from global climate modeling to combustion to astrophysics.
Horst is also the founding director of Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division, which conducts applied research and development in computer science, computational science, and applied mathematics. His research interests are in the development of sparse matrix algorithms, algorithms for large-scale eigenvalue problems, and domain decomposition algorithms for unstructured domains for parallel processing.
Horst's recursive spectral bisection algorithm is regarded as a breakthrough in parallel algorithms for unstructured computations, and his algorithm research efforts were honored with the 1988 Gordon Bell Prize for parallel processing research. Horst was member of the NASA team that developed the NAS Parallel Benchmarks, a widely used standard for evaluating the performance of massively parallel systems. He is also one of four editors of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world's most powerful computing systems.
Horst was previously with SUNY Stony Brook (1982-1983), Boeing Computer Services (1983 - 1989), Computer Sciences Corporation at NASA Ames (1987-1994), and SGI (1994-1996). He holds a PhD in Mathematics (1982) from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Diplom in Mathematik from the TU Berlin (1978).
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