Dr. Emil Freeman

Note: All analyses performed with JMP.

Dr. Emil Freeman is an experienced statistician and polymer scientist/engineer. As an internal consultant for a major rubber company he helped many associates solve R&D and quality assurance problems by identifying their root cause. As a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry he analyzed stability studies to predict shelf lives, designed and analyzed studies of biological, chemical and manufacturing processes, and solved problems for quality control statisticians faced with "unusual situations". His independent consulting assignments have covered a wide range: promotional games, tire life studies, agricultural experiments, electronic signals. He is an expert at designing experiments to fit each customer’s needs: fractional factorials, composite designs, incomplete block designs, Youden Squares, etc. He is an expert in Multiple Criteria Optimization and analyzing "messy data" (multiple error terms, mixed models, components of variation, regression, ANOVA, ANOCOVA). He is an expert user of JMP software, and was a beta-tester and contract JMP instructor for the SAS Institute.

He has mentored and tutored a wide range of individuals, from children and adolescents with learning disabilities to non-statistician scientists and engineers. He loves to hear the magic words, "This isn’t as hard as I thought it would be."

He has published eight peer-reviewed papers and has four US patents. He holds a BS from MIT, a PhD and MA from Princeton University, and an MS from Case Western Reserve University.

Appraisals said, "...recognized and much-sought internal consultant and expert in statistical methods and their application to real problem solving.... Excellent listener and dissector of the key needs/wishes of his customers.... Focuses their work to answer their desired questions, and creates experimental approaches specific to each problem."

EXPERTISE & CAREER SUMMARY:

Experienced statistician - strong background in chemistry, polymer science & engineering.

Consulting projects have covered wide variety of (often unique) situations.

Internal statistical consultant for R&D and manufacturing plants. Led collaborative teams to:

--define questions and design experiments to answer them,

--improve processes & products,

--diagnose & solve wide range of technical & quality problems,

--remove unnecessary constraints and work around necessary ones.

Devised curriculum & successfully taught applied statistics in industry and online.

Extensive experience with JMP.

Invented and developed emulsion polymers & polymer processes to satisfy product needs.

Extensive experience with wide variety of statistical methods.

EXPERIENCE:

Statistician

• Novel pharmaceutical stability studies
• Design & analysis of experiments
• Analysis of available data
• Risk analysis
• Multiple criteria optimization

Contract statistician assigned to Bristol-Myers Squibb 1/2006-5/2007

• Design of experiments & multiple criteria optimization for chemical processes.
• Modeled pharmaceutical stability, set tolerance intervals, recommended methodologies, etc
• Validated complex SAS program for Peto-Pike carcinogenicity studies.
• Devised ad hoc sampling plan for unusual situation faced by other statisticians

Independent statistical consultant 2003-2006

• Developed and simulated (using SAS) Pepsi's "Match 3 for a Tee" game
• Modeled tire aging for Akron Rubber Development Lab (analogous to Rx stability above)
• Designed and analyzed experiments related to smoke density & heat release (Schneller, Inc)
• Statistically modeled market prices for Booz-Allen-Hamilton.
• Interpreted statistical aspects of DNA data for counsel in criminal trial.
• Identified unexpected spatial component in agricultural data.
• Cluster and related analyses for marketing firm.
• Distributional analysis for jitter in oscilloscopes.

Keiser College - Adjunct Professor (Statistics) 2004-2007
SAS Institute, Contract Instructor (Statistics Using JMP Software) 2003-2005

Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Research Div Technical ladder positions
"Goodyear Spirit Award", 1989.

Quotes from performance appraisals: "…recognized and much-sought internal consultant and expert in statistical methods and their application to real problem solving….Excellent listener and dissector of the key needs/wishes of his customers….Focuses their work to answer their desired questions, and creates experimental approaches specific to each problem." "Emil has internalized the principals of Total Quality Culture".

• Chaired curriculum committee. Developed, wrote and taught many portions of internal statistics courses, including workshop in Multiple Criteria Optimization. Associates consistently said that I made previously difficult concepts easy to understand.

• Reduced measurement variation in production process by a factor of 10. Team leader, Race Tire Advanced Eng. said, "If not for Emil, we would still be [fruitlessly] looking at…."

• Identified root cause of expensive adhesion difficulties.

• Prevented expensive (>$500,000/yr) & unnecessary change in bladder compound.

Extensive experience with wide variety of statistical methods (eg, designed experiments, linear & non-linear regression, assessing measurement systems, sources of variation, Multiple Criteria Optimization, happenstance data, mixed models, ANOVA, ANOCOVA).

Identified root causes of major polymer deficiencies and devised improvements.

Synthesized polymers to meet specific needs. Software development as needed.

Polymer Science Dept, Univ of Mass (Roger S Porter) "Visiting Scientist"

Other Activities:

Regional Chair, MIT Educational Council 006

Cleveland VA Medical Center – Animal Care and Use Committee 2005

Math tutor - supposedly "lost" students achieved A’s in 11th grade math. 2004

Member, Amer Chemical Soc, Amer Statistical Assoc, Amer Society for Quality

EDUCATION:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemical Physics, BS.

Princeton University, Chemistry, MA, PhD, Chemistry. (Arthur V Tobolsky, supervisor)

Case Western Reserve University, Applied Statistics, MS.

PRESENTATIONS:

Invited speaker, ASM International (Akron Chapter), Akron Rubber Group Lecture Series (twice), national meeting of American Chemical Society. Many internal seminars at Goodyear.

U.S. PATENTS:

4,254013 4,574,140 4,960,819 5,162,425

PUBLICATIONS:

Many internal Goodyear, BMS, and MannKind publications.

"NIR Chemical Imaging to Guide/Support BMS-561389 Tablet Formulation Development", L. Hilden, C.J. Pommiera, S. Badawya, Emil M. Friedman, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 353(1-2), 283 (2008).

"Modality of Molecular Weight Distributions", Emil M Friedman, Polymer Engineering and Science, 30, 569 (1990).

"High Conversion Emulsion Polymerization in a Continuous Reactor: Predictions Using Smith-Ewart Kinetics", Emil M Friedman, J Polymer Sci, Polym Phys Ed, 18, 1771 (1980).

"Elastomer Blends – Improved Strength…of Uncured Rubber Compounds", Emil M Friedman, Richard G Bauer, and Diego C Rubio, in Polymer Alloys, ed D Klempner and K C Frisch (Plenum, NY, 1977), p 51. Also presented at National ACS Meeting.

"Nematic-Like Flow Behavior in a Non-Steroidal Cholesteric Mesophase", Emil M Friedman and Roger S Porter, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 31, 47 (1975).

"Polymer Viscosity-Molecular Weight Distribution Correlations via Blending…", Emil M Friedman and Roger S Porter, Transactions of the Society of Rheology, 49, 493, (1975).

"Effect of a Cholesteric Texture on X-ray Diffraction…Liquid Crystalline Polypeptides", Emil M Friedman and Ryong-Joon Roe, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 28, 437 (1974).

"Solid State Morphology…Polypeptide Films", Emil M Friedman, Courtney Anderson, Ryong-Joon Roe, and Arthur V Tobolsky, J Polymer Science, Polym Letters Ed, 10, 839 (1972).

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