Dr. David Perkins holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree in Management from Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana. He holds Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Technology degrees from Arizona State University. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering Technology degree from Southwest Minnesota State University. Dr. Perkins is a Professor of Business Analytics at Grand Canyon University. He has 17 years of industry experience, including work as an avionics design engineer on the F-16 Fighter Aircraft program. He has also held Project Manager and Project Analyst positions at MicroAge, National Computer Systems, Motorola and General Dynamics. Dr. Perkins's primary research interests include data mining topics and pedagogical techniques as related to business analytics. He is also a Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®) from INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) from PMI (Project Management Institute). Dr. Perkins has published articles in peer-reviewed academic journals including Spreadsheets in Education, the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, the International Journal of Information Technology Project Management, and Leadership & Organizational Development Journal. One of his articles also appears in the book, “People in Projects. Dr. Perkins has also been a recurring speaker at recent Machine Learning Week seminars and has been a guest speaker at various Project Management Institute (PMI) Chapter meetings in Arizona, California, and Utah.