Remembering Andrew Karp Sadly, Andrew Karp passed away mid-2016 after battling depression.. Andrew first started using SAS in 1983 as a graduate student at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, and continued using it professionally in roles with Federal Express, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Pacific Gas & Electric before starting his own independent SAS Software consulting and training firm in 1992, originally called "Sierra Information Services". In 2012 it was renamed "Sierra Data Science". During his 22 years as an independent consultant Andrew provided training and/or consulting services using SAS Software tools for predictive modeling, reporting, database management, and customer segmentation for clients in many industry sectors. From 1980 to 1995 he taught semester-length classes in various SAS Software topics for UC Berkley's Extension Division, and also gave academic seminars about SAS at other academic institutions during the course of his career. He was very active with local and regional user groups, serving on the Executive Committee of the Western Users of SAS Software and of the Pacific NW SAS Users Group, as well as chair of the Sacramento Valley SUG for many years. He was in invited speaker at 17 consecutive SUGI/SGF conferences. Andrew also spoke at other events for SAS users throughout the United States (including Hawaii and Alaska), as well as Canada, Singapore, the People's Republic of China, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, England, Belgium, The Netherlands and Norway. He was a member of the SAS Institute "Circle of Excellence", recognizing his long-term service to the SAS user community. Andrew served on the review teams for eight titles published by SAS Press. He also served as a co-moderator of the SAS Professional Forum LinkedIn group (the largest SAS user group on LinkedIn). Our thoughts reach out to his surviving mother & sister in Freehold, NJ, as well as niece and nephew.
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