Helen works in the insurance industry providing SAS and SQL programming and is also an independent computing and training consultant. Ginger provided technical support and classes for SAS users at the University of Hawaii for 30 years.  She recently retired from the university and is an independent consultant.

Helen and Ginger have used SAS since 1976. They received the SAS Silver Circle Award in Award in 2006. This award from SAS Institute recognizes outstanding effort by longtime users of SAS. They have been invited speakers at numerous SAS user group conferences and have provided training classes for WUSS for the past several years. They have also served as Section Chairs for a number of SAS conferences. Helen and Ginger co-authored a book in the SAS Books by Users series: SAS Today! A Year of Terrific Tips. They believe in the need for constant learning and their philosophy is to have fun while learning.

Ginger’s email address is ginger@hawaii.edu; Helen’s is carey@hawaii.edu.

Art Carpenter's publications list includes four books, and numerous papers and posters presented at SAS Global Forum, SUGI, and other user group conferences.  Art has been using SAS since 1976 and has served in various ledership positions in local, regional, national, and international user groups.  He is a SAS Certified Advanced Programmer and through California Occidental Consultants he teaches SAS courses and provides contract SAS programming support nationwide.

Dr. Ron Cody was a Professor at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey for 26 years and consultant and writer. He has been a SAS user since the late 70’s and is the author of “Applied Statistics and the SAS® (fifth edition), published by Prentice Hall. He has also authored or co-authored the following books for the SAS Institute as part of their Books by Users series: Learning SAS by Example A Programmer’s Guide, SAS Functions by Example, The SAS Workbook, SAS Programming by Example, Cody’s Data Cleaning Techniques, and Longitudinal Data and SAS: A Programmer’s Guide. Ron has presented invited papers for numerous local, regional, and national SAS conferences.

Nathaniel has a MS in statistics from the University of Washington, specializing in time series analysis and forecasting.  He has worked for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the German Institute of Economic Research, Princeton Brand Econometrics, T-Mobile and Washington Mutual.  He first learned SAS in 1998 and has used it continuously since 2004.  Since 2006 he has been particularly interested in spending as little time as possible manually formating Excel spreadsheets of SAS output.  In September 2007 he released the open-source SAS macro exportToXL, which completely automates this task when using PC SAS.  He now runs Statis Pro Data Analytics, a SAS and statistical consultancy in Seattle, Washington.

George Fernandez, professor of applied statistics serves as the statistician for the Nevada Experimental station and Cooperative Extension.  He has more than 23 years of experience in teaching applied statistics courses and SAS programming.  He is a professional SAS programmer and has over 22 years experience in many statistical and graphical SAS modules.  He has won best paper and poster presentation awards at the regional and international conferences.  He has presented several invited full-day workshops on "Applications of user-friendly statistical methods in Data mining:  American Statistical Association Joint meeting in Atlanta (2001), Western SAS users conference in Arizona (2000), in San Diego (2002), and San Jose (2005), 56th Deming's conference, Atlantic City (2003), Key-note Speaker and workshop presenter, 16th Conference on Applied Statistics, Kansas State University.  Many international and national SAS users are currently using his user-friendly SAS applications for data analysis via on-line.  He has also organized 7th Western Users of SAS conference (WUSS) at Los Angeles in 1999 and served as the section chair, SUGI31.  His book on "Data mining using SAS applications" (CRC press / Chapman Hall) contains many user-friendly SAS macro-applications.

Malachy (MAL) J. Foley is a software engineer and an Independent SAS programmer/Analyst/Trainer.  He is associated with the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) where for 10 years Mal was a senior SAS programmer/analyst working with clinical trail data.  Moreover, Mal has worked with financial, HR, moldeling, engineering, survey and research data for more then 30 years.  His list of consulting/training clients includes IBM, Dow Chemical, Ford-Rockefeller Foundation, United Nations, GE, Department of Agriculture, Agency for International Development, GSK, and Research Triangle Institutes.  Mal hold a degree in Engineering and has several speaking awards from Toastmasters International.  He teaches at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels.  He presents papers and gives seminars at local, regional, national, and international SAS users' groups.  Mal is the immediate past president of the Research Triangle SAS Users' Group (RTSUG) and chaired the Pharmaceutical Industry SAS Users Group Conference (PharmaSUG) in 2006.

Eric has been a Unix programmer for 25 years. He joined SAS in 1995 and has been working on ODS ever since.  His first task was the creation of the ODS HTML destination.  He is also the author of the original style templates, as well as the original version of the RTF destination.  Most recently Eric created ODS Markup and the tagset template language that it relies upon.  Working on tagsets to refine and create new ODS destinations now consumes much of his work life.

Kirk Paul Lafler is consultant and founder of Software Intelligence Corporation and has been programming in SAS since 1979.  As a SAS Certified Professional and SAS Institute Alliance Member (1996 - 2002), Kirk provides IT consulting services and training to SAS users around the world.  He has written four books including PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS by SAS Institute, Power SAS and Power AOL by Apress, as well as more than two hundred peer-reviewed papers and articles.  Kirk has been invited as a speaker and workshop presenter at more than two hundred International, Regional, and Local SAS User Group Conferences.  He also writes a popular SAS Tips column called Kirk's Korner that appears regularly in the BASAS, HASUG, SANDS, SAS Institute, SESEG, and WUSS Newsletters and websites.  He can be reached at kirklafler@cs.com.

Pete Lund is a SAS Certified professional who has used the SAS System for over 17 years.  He currently works for Looking Glass Analytics in Olympia, WA as Information Systems Manager.  Pete has extensive experience with the DATA step and SAS macro language, SQL, SAS/GRAPH and SAS/IntrNet and presented over 50 papers at local and regional SAS Users Groups as well as at SUGI, where he won the "Best Contributed Paper" Award in 2000, 2001, and 2002.

Sy Truong is the cofounder and president of MXI (Meta-Xceed, Inc.) since 1997.  MXI provides software solutions within the Pharmaceutical Industry specializing in CDISC data standards, SAS validation, electronic submission, data analysis and reporting.  Sy is one of the committee members of the Bay Area SAS User Group (www.basas.com).  He is a frequent contributor and presenter at PharmaSUG, WUSS, and SUGI conferences.  He's currently writing a book for SAS Publishing entitled Becoming a SAS Clinical Trials Programmer.