George Fernandez, former professor of applied statistics, and the Director for the University of Nevada- Reno Center for Research Design and Analysis currently serves as Senior Analytical Consultant, SAS Education. He has more than 23 years of experience in teaching courses such as design and analysis of experiments, linear and non-linear regression, multivariate statistical methods and SAS programming. He has over 25 years experience in many statistical and graphical SAS modules. He has won best paper and poster presentation awards at the regional and international conferences. He has presented several invited full-day workshops on "Applications of user-friendly statistical methods in Data mining: American Statistical Association Joint meeting in Atlanta (2001), Western SAS users Conference in Arizona (2000), in San Diego (2002),and San Jose (2005), 56th Deming's conference, Atlantic City (2003), Key-note Speaker and workshop presenter, 16th Conference on Applied Statistics, Kansas State University. He has also organized 7th Western Users of SAS conference (WUSS) at Los Angeles in 1999 and served as the section chair, SUGI31 and SGF2007-2009. His book on "Data mining using SAS applications" (CRC press / Chapman Hall) contains many user-friendly SAS macro-applications. Specialties: Training Consultant in SAS Forecast Server/Studio, SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS survey probability design course, SAS/STATS and SAS/ETS, programming, Data Mining, SAS Visual text analytics,and Visual forecasting.