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I still code in R… One role I had for many years was to lead technical training events for the global specialist systems engineers, which we called the Ambassador Program. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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