Art’s expertise spans a wide variety of client industries ranging from apparel and consumer packaged goods retailers to convenience stores, chemical and forest products manufacturers, academic institutions, nonprofit, and healthcare organizations. He has led process improvement projects in Europe, Asia, and South America, and has taught advanced multivariate quantitative analysis to semiconductor engineers in Japan and chemical engineers in Germany. Art’s clients include AutoNation, Big Lots, Bridgestone-Firestone, LensCrafters, Lowe’s Home Improvement, Meijer, Rent-A-Center, and SAK’s.

Prior to his introduction to Dr. W. Edwards Deming and Dr. Charles Holland in 1981, Art earned his master’s degree from the University of Tennessee at the age of twenty.  He began his career at Union Carbide's Nuclear Weapons Manufacturing Division and pioneered the applied quantitative methods for controlling nuclear weapon materials. His accomplishments include developing the concept of the Weapons Interactive Graphics system. Art’s success continued with his career in the semiconductor industry, where he introduced and developed statistical methods for rapid product development and high-quality, high-reliability, low-cost production.