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Marcia Elaine Walker
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Global Industry Principal, Manufacturing

Marcia Elaine Walker is a principal consultant in the industry practice of SAS, where she helps clients apply data management and analytics technologies to make better decisions, faster. Walker’s career has revolved around the industrial sector including energy, manufacturing, and mining. She holds eight issued and multiple pending patents related to analytics in the industrial space and was named one of the most influential women in IoT by the IoT Institute. Ms. Walker was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Heidelberg and in addition to her academic studies has hundreds of hours of training in martial arts. She is also an accomplished improv actress and an enthusiastic though very off-key singer. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and their excessively furry orange cat and loves to write.