Instructor Biographies
Mal Foley
Malachy J. Foley is a senior SAS Programmer/Analyst in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Mal has worked with all types of data for more than 30 years. His career in computing includes being an
international consultant, a department manager, a university professor, and a CEO. He has consulted to IBM, Dow Chemical,
Ford-Rockefeller Foundation, United Nations, GE, Department of Agriculture, Agency for International Development, GSK,
Research Triangle Institutes and many universities. He has taught dozens of computing courses at the undergraduate,
graduate, and professional levels. He frequently presents papers and gives seminars at local, regional, national and
international SAS users’ groups.
Gerald Frey
Gerald Frey joined Systems Seminar Consultants, Inc. in 1999 as a SAS ® Instructor and4 Consultant. He has over 10 years of
programming and consulting experience in mainframe applications and development with a background in the financial services,
insurance and health care industries. He is actively involved in SAS training.Gerald graduated from DeVry Institute of
Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems and a minor in Business Accounting. Professional
associations include various local and regional SAS Users Groups. Gerald is also a SAS Certified Professional V8.
Morgan Wang
Morgan Wang has a Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State University. He is presently employed as a Professor and Director of
Institute of Statistics and Data Mining Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Central Florida. He has
developed a masters and a certificate program on data mining, attracted and managed research funds in excess of two million
dollars, published 37 papers and one book, and presented 64 (23 using SAS Enterprise Miner) invited papers.
Art Carpenter
Art Carpenter's publications list includes three books, and over five dozen papers and posters presented at SUGI, and various
regional and local user group meetings. Art has been using SAS since 1976 and is a SAS Certified ProfessionalTM. Through
California Occidental Consultants he teaches SAS courses and provides contract SAS programming support nationwide.
Ben Cochran
After more than 11 years with SAS Institute, Ben Cochran now heads his own consulting and SAS Training business, The
Bedford Group. Ben has authored and presented several papers at SAS Users Group International Conferences, his most
recent one being Using the Passthrough Facility in PROC SQL to Access Sybase Tables (Indianapolis, 2000).
"Tall Stacks ... Tall on SAS!"