William Brenneman

William Brenneman is a Principal Statistician at the Procter & Gamble Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. His current work at P&G is focused on providing statistical support within the Beauty Care business unit. William works on a wide range of projects that deal with statistics applications in the areas of design of experiments, robust parameter design, reliability engineering, statistical process control, computer experiments, and general statistical thinking. William has also been instrumental in the development of an in-house statistics curriculum that provides statistics training to P&G scientists and engineers from around the globe.

William received a Ph.D. degree in Statistics at the University of Michigan (2000), an MS in Mathematics from the University of Iowa (1989) and a BA in Mathematics and Secondary Education from Tabor College (1987). His research interests include experimental design and analysis, reliability engineering, statistical process control and robust parameter design. William is a member of the American Statistical Association, the American Society for Quality and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has served as Senior Editor of the newsletter for the American Statistical Association Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences and as referee for several statistics journals.

William also has seven years of experience as an educator, teaching mathematics at Iowa Mennonite High School (1989-1993, basketball and baseball coach) and at Hesston College (1993-1996). Away from work he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children. He also likes to run, bike, swim, and play various sports.