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Richard La Valley
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Senior data scientist and principle at Apogee Integration, LLC

Richard W. La Valley is a senior data scientist and principle at Apogee Integration, LLC. He has more than 35 years of experience as a statistician and operations analyst working in the areas of sample survey design, decision support, command and control, pattern recognition, metric development, trouble tracking and monitoring systems in both commercial and government market segments. He has also was one of the lead architects and designed real-time development fraud detection tools for telephony and has developed numerous highly effective decision support systems fielded in commercial telephony. He holds a Master’s degree in Statistics from Pennsylvania State University. Rich has used SAS since 1978 and was the conference chair of SUGI 14 in 1989.