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Rick Mitchell
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IT Manager at Westat

Rick Mitchell is an IT Manager at Westat, an employee-owned research corporation. He manages a diverse IT team including SAS programmers and has 23 years of experience with SAS performing statistical analyses, reporting, and data management in the area of health studies and clinical trials. He holds a BS in Statistics from North Carolina State University and an MS in Computer Systems Management from University of Maryland. Rick has served as a Section Chair for SUGI and SAS Global Forum for many years and also served as a Co-Conference Chair for the NorthEast SAS Users Group (NESUG) in 2007. Rick is a routinely invited speaker and has been recognized with multiple awards for his presentations on SAS programming techniques/solutions.

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My top 3 picks for SAS Global Forum 2014

Having served as conference chair for last year’s SAS Global Forum, I am so looking forward to just being a normal attendee at this year’s conference in Washington, DC. That’s right, I’ll have no speaking commitments, no interviewers, no responsibilities—just the privilege of selecting the content that is right for

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A day to celebrate

Yes, it’s February 15 and plenty of people celebrated yesterday for obvious reasons; Valentine’s Day.  But today, SAS Global Forum is celebrating for other reasons.  It’s not about flowers, candy and love notes for us this week– it’s about content, content and more content.  That’s right – we’re celebrating today