It is difficult to list all the people who help a person formulate a set of experiences and frameworks that constitute a career. I’ve been fortunate to have had the opportunities to work on challenging and interesting problems with some rather amazing people. Here are the high points–errors of omission are sincerely regretted! We’ll start with decision analysis: Tom Sciance (now an adjunct professor at the University of Texas) was the visionary leader at Conoco who started both David Skinner (author of Introduction to Decision Analysis) and me on the DA adventure. SDG was our early DA mentor and helped us through those first Conoco projects. Hollis Call of ADA was also a source of advice and encouragement. Gary Bush, Pat Leach, ...
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