Rick is an Emeritus Professor of Statistics, on the faculty of Arizona State University for 29 years, and former Quality Engineering Director at Amgen, Inc. for 10 years. He presently works part-time as an advisor for Adsurgo consulting. He has been working on statistical issues concerning CMC applications for the past 19 years, and has written over 80 journal articles and four books. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and served on the USP Statistics Expert Committee from 2010-2020. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics from the University of Wyoming and his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Statistics from Texas A&M University.