Mark Tabladillo an Associate Faculty member for the graduate school at the accredited University of Phoenix where he has mentored seven doctoral students from multiple countries on leadership and technology topics, in both quantitative and qualitative research designs. Mark has a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Industrial Engineering from the top-ranked School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA) where he studied applied statistics and management. He has since provided consulting and training to clients in many industries across the United States and around the world. His consulting experience matches the nexus of business and applied technology, advising advanced analytics architectures and data science implementations based on technologies like Microsoft and SAS. He has been a conference since 1998: Microsoft TechEd, PASS Business Analytics Conference, Predictive Analytics World, SAS Global Forum, PASS Summit. He is a senior member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Experience Data Science Virtual Chapter Leader Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) November 2014 – Present (2 months)Greater Atlanta Area Chapter leader for PASS Data Science (Virtual Chapter = online) Analyst Gigaom August 2014 – Present (5 months) Big Data and Analytics; Data Science Consultant SolidQ March 2014 – Present (10 months) Business intelligence, data mining, machine learning Advanced Analytics and Data Science Consultant Consulting Partners May 1999 – Present (15 years 8 months) Industries: Banking, Consumer Goods, Government (State and Federal), Insurance, Legal Services, Manufacturing, Mass Media, Non-Profit, Public Health, Telecommunications Clients have been mostly in the United States; work travel has included Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bangkok (Thailand), Brazzaville (Congo), Cairo (Egypt), Copenhagen (Denmark), Cuernavaca (Mexico), London (Great Britain), Manila (Philippines), Singapore Associate Professor University of Phoenix January 2005 – Present (10 years)Online School of Advanced Studies: doctoral dissertation advising in quantitative or qualitative analytics peer-reviewed academic research creation, design, analytics, and oral defense. https://phoenix.academia.edu/MarkTabladillo/Supervised-Dissertations http://research.phoenix.edu/users/marktab Advanced Analytics and Data Science Consultant MarkTab Inc July 2003 – March 2014 (10 years 9 months) Machine learning -- data mining -- predictive analytics