He has been a SAS user for more than 17 years and is the author of Applied Statistics and the SAS(r) Programming Language, third edition (fourth edition due this spring). Along with Ray Pass, he has written a book called SAS(r) Programming by Example, a book of annotated SAS examples, published by the SAS Institute as part of their Books by Users series. His latest book, The SAS Workbook, was published recently by the SAS Institute. Ron has presented invited papers for numerous local, regional, and national SAS conferences.