John Lawson

2101 W 475 S

Vineyard
Utah 84059
lawsonjsl7net
@gmail.com

Experience

Consultant - Researcher

Vineyard, UT
  • Researching improvements in statsistical methods for design and analysis of experiments, quality control and open source software for future publications
  • Working on an NSF research project titled "Unraveling the Role of CO2 as a Reagent: Catalyst Optimization through Statistical Analysis" jointly with members of BYU Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Departments
  • Seeking additional opportunities to work on academic research projects using my expertise in statistics and experimental design
  • Looking for pro bono consulting opportunities with charitable and non-profit organizations involving process troublshooting and process improvements

Professor

Department of Statistics, BYU

  • Taught Classes in Experimental Design, Quality Control, Reliability Engineering, Engineering Statistics, Probability and Statistical Theory.
  • Served as Faculty Advisor to the BYU Student Subsection of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Salt Lake City Section 0615
  • Helped undergraduate students in the Quality Control Class obtain the ASQ (American Society for Quality) Quality Process Analyst Certification (CQPA) Download pdf
  • Supervised student theses.
  • Conducted and published research on improved statistical methods for industrial applications.
  • Wrote and published textbooks on Experimental Design and Quality Control.
  • Collaborated with Chemists, Chemical Engineers and Manufacturing Engineers on Research projects that utilized statistical methods.

Manager of Statistical Services

FMC Corp Chemical R&D Center, Princeton, NJ

  • Acted as an internal consultant at the R&D Center and plant locations throuought the U.S.
  • Managed a small group of statisticians involved in chemical process improvement, new product development, and toxicolology studies on new agricultural products.

Statistician

Johnson & Johnson Corp, New Brunswick, NJ

  • Acted as an internal consultant to the J&J Family of Companies for projects including design and analysis of pharmaceutical clinical trials at Ortho Pharmaceutical, McNeil Phamaceutical and Ethicon Surgical Sutures.
  • Conducted preclinical work included Pharmacokinetics and Dose Response Studies.
  • Worked on manufacturing Troubleshooting and Process Improvements at ESDP (Eastern Sterile Dressings Plant) and Devro Inc.

Education

MSc in Mathematical Statistics

Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ

PhD in Applied Statistics

Polytechnic Institute of NY
Brooklyn, NY

Professional Certifications

American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)

Recent Publications

  1. Lawson, J. "Comparison of Conditional Main Effects Analysis to the Analysis of Follow-up Experiments for Separating Confounded Two-Factor Interaction Effects in Fractional Factorial Experiments".

    Quality and Reliability Engineering International

    Vol. 36, No. 4 2020, pp. 1454-1472. Download pdf

  2. Lawson, J. “Phase II Monitoring of Variability using Cusum and EWMA charts with Individual Observations”.

    Quality Engineering

    Vol. 31, No. 3, 2019, 417-429. Download pdf
  3. Oblad, R.V., Doughtry, H. Lawson, J., Christensen, M. and Kenealy, J.D. “Application of Mixture Design Response Surface Methodology for Combination Chemotherapy in PC-3Human Prostate Cancer Cells”.

    Molecular Pharmacology

    Vol. 94, August 2018, pp. 907-916. Download pdf
  4. Olsen, R, Lawson, J, Rohbok, N. and Woodfield, B. “Practical Comparison of traditional and definitive screening designs in chemical process development”.

    International Journal of Experimental Design and Process Optimisation

    Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 1-22. Download pdf

  5. Lawson, J. and Willden C. “Mixture Experiments in R, using mixexp”.

    Journal of Statistical Software

    Vol. 72, August 2016 Download pdf
  6. Okerson, T., Keyvanloo, K., Horton, J., Lawson, J., Argyle, M. and Hecker, W. “On the Kinetics and Mechanism of Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis on a Highly Active Iron Catalyst Supported on Silica-Stabilized Alumina”.

    Catalysts Today

    Vol. 261, No. 2, pp. 67-74.     Download pdf

  7. Olsen, R.E., Bartholomew, C. H., Enfield, D. E., Lawson, J. S., Rohbok, N., Scott, B. S., and Woodfield, B. F. “Optimizing the synthesis and properties of Al-modified anatase catalyst supports by statistical experimental design”.

    J. Porous Mater

    Vol. 21:827-837, August 2014     Download pdf

R-packages

  1. Lawson J. AQLSchemes: Retrieving Acceptance Sampling Schemes, 2020. R package 1.7-1
  2. Lawson J. daewr:Data Frames and Functions for Design and Analysis of Experiments with R, 2020. R package version 1.2-5
  3. Lawson J. mixexp:Design and Analysis of Mixture Experiments, 2016. R package version 1.2-5

Hobbies

Golf, Tennis, Table Tennis