1978 - 1985 Senior Operations Research Analyst - CertainTeed Corporation; Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

Responsible for the development of application software using mathematical techniques.

• Model for capacity and distribution planning used for evaluation of industrial investments or acquisitions: Use of SAS/Basic for interface and OMNI/MPSX;OSL for optimization.
• Optimization model of glass batch chemistry: Collaboration with Saint-Gobain on a FORTRAN program, implementing Goal directed optimization.
• Computer equipment procurement; Analyze the trade off between equipment buy and lease by accounting for the effect of these strategies on productivity, to determine an optimal procurement time
• Computer performance analysis; Computing resource capacity planning: Use of SAS/ETS for forecasting and SAS/STATS for bottleneck analysis and simulation .