Education and Professional Experience

Education

• BSc (Mathematics, with distinction), 1972

University of Calgary.
 
• MSc (Mathematical Logic), 1974

University of Calgary.
Thesis entitled Diophantine Characterizations of the Perfect Numbers.
Thesis supervisor Jim Jones.
 
• MSc (Statistics), 1979

University of Calgary.
Thesis entitled Distributions for a Two-Unit Repairable System.
Thesis supervisor Ernest Enns.
 
• PhD (Statistics), 1982

University of Calgary.
Thesis entitled Robust Estimation of Multivariate Location and Scale in the Presence of Asymmetry.
Thesis supervisor John Collins.
 
• Generalized Linear Models short course
  American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, 1983
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• Society of Actuaries courses 100, 110, 120.

 

Professional Experience

• Professor
  University of Alberta, 1992 - present.

 
• Associate Professor
  University of Alberta, 1987 - 1992; tenured July 1, 1990.

 
• Assistant Professor
  Dalhousie University, 1982 - 1987; tenured and appointed to Associate Professor on July 1, 1987.

 
• Statistical consultant
  C.R. Winter Associates Limited, energy planning consultants, 1979 - 1981.

 
• Sessional Instructor
  Department of Administration, Mount Royal College, Calgary, 1981.