He has been a SAS user for more than 20 years and is the author of Applied Statistics and the SAS® Programming Language (fourth edition), published by Prentice Hall. Along with Ray Pass, he has written a book called SAS® Programming by Example, a book of annotated SAS examples, published by the SAS Institute as part of their Books by Users series. His latest books, also published by the SAS Institute, are The SAS Workbook, and the SAS Workbook: Solutions. He is currently under contract with the SAS Institute for a book on Data Cleaning Techniques. Ron has presented invited papers for numerous local, regional, and national SAS conferences.