José is currently the Chief Statistician within the Global MSAT group at Kite, a GILEAD company. In this role, he provides statistical leadership in the use, promotion, and adoption of best statistical approaches, including Bayesian methods. In his many years of experience in the semiconductor, electronics, and biotech industries, he has worked closely with engineers and scientists to help them make sense of data, and through collaborative education, help promote statistical thinking.

José received a licentiate degree in mathematics from Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, and both an MS in applied statistics and a PhD in statistics from the University Wisconsin-Madison, where he was one of the founding members of the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement. He has won both the SAS Users Group International (SUGI) best-contributed statistics paper, and the SAS User Feedback Award, and has written two books for SAS Press. In 2026 he was recognized by the University Wisconsin-Madison, School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences, with the Distinguished Achievement Award “for a career spent crossing boundaries — between engineering and science, industry and academia, data and medicine.”