The CANA Connection

"All models are wrong, but some are useful." - George Box Nick joins CANA as a Hiring Our Heroes Corporate Fellow as he transitions from over 22 years of active duty military service. Nick spent his active duty years as a Navy Supply Corps Officer where he gained experience and leadership in logistics, inventory and supply chain management, budgeting, contracting, and manpower analysis. He is on the Executive Council of the Military Operations Research Society, Chairperson of

Team CANA would like to welcome Anna Sterrett, our new Director of Business and People Operations! We are excited to have Anna as a member of our team. Get to know Anna below. Anna Sterrett Director of Business and People Operations “We can choose courage, or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.” - Bréne Brown Anna is experienced as an innovative director, supervisor, private practitioner, and trainer, with over 25 years of progressive behavior

Please welcome to the CANA Team Adam Evans, Principal Operations Research Analyst, and Donovan Holloway, Senior Project Manager! We are excited to have Adam and Donovan a part of our team. Get to know them below! Adam Evans Principal Operations Research Analyst “Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?” - Allan Bloom Adam has a little over 22 years of experience stretchi

CANA would like to welcome aboard Shawn Charchan as our Technical Director of Energy Solutions, and Mark Raffetto as our Senior Operations Research Analyst! We are excited to have Shawn and Mark a part of team CANA. Get to know them below! Shawn Charchan Technical Director of Energy Solutions “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.” - George S. Patton Shawn joins our team with ten years of experience as a Marine, having served first as a logistician and

We are excited to announce our recent addition to Team CANA, Jesse Kemp! Jesse joins CANA as a Principal Program Manager. Get to know Jesse below! Jesse Kemp Principal Program Manager Jesse joins our team with over 27 years of experience in the U.S. Marine Corps. His career highlights include multiple overseas and combat deployments serving in a wide range of command and staff billets along the way. As the director of logistics integration at Headquarters Marine Corps, Combat

I was pleased to participate as a panelist in a lively discussion on AI Bias at the 6th annual Business Analytics Symposium on Thursday, March 3, 2022, hosted by The University of Texas at Arlington Center for Innovation and Digital Transformation. The theme of the conference was “Explainable and Unbiased AI – Going Beyond the Hype.” The in-person symposium provided a forum for industry professionals and academics to exchange information and knowledge in the area of analytics

Margaret Hauser, Ph.D. Senior Operations Research Analyst "Wherever you go, there you are" - Unknown Margaret joins the CANA team from a research associate position at the Naval Postgraduate School where she worked alongside faculty and students to support Navy and Marine Corps logistics and operations research. She earned a Ph.D. in Operations Research from North Carolina State University; her dissertation investigated the adoption of additive manufacturing for the mass cust

We wanted to highlight four of our team members who recently were awarded the 2021 CANA Excellence Award for their significant efforts this

Team CANA would like to welcome Chris Cichy, our new Principal Artificial Intelligence Analyst! “If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.” — Simon Sinek Chris Cichy Principal Artificial Intelligence Analyst Chris has a diverse background with over 23 years of military experience in the Army and Marine Corps, as well as training, education, and deployment with the Navy and Air Force. Chris served as a Joint Terminal Att

Team CANA would like to welcome Tamara Harvey, Data Science Fellow, and Dallas Bowers, esports Intern! Tamara Harvey “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”- Maya Angelou Tamara comes to CANA with a unique background that includes three years of teaching experience in various settings such as Texas and China. During that period, Tamara gained unique perspectives and honed her an