Dr. Carrie Strief is an adjunct instructor for the St. Thomas College of Engineering and also works full-time as a Distinguished Statistician within the Global Operations Quality division of Medtronic. Carrie has served as an industrial statistician for nearly 20 years, with 4 years of experience at Boston Scientific and 15+ years at Medtronic. Her career has focused on statistical methods critical to product quality and quality engineering: lot acceptance sampling, design of experiments, post-market reliability trending, statistical process control, and manufacturing process validation.