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Cox Associates Clients:

We welcome you to contact any of our clients! Below are our recent clients for the following service lines:

Telecommunications       Financial Services and Insurance       Health Risk Analysis

Telecommunications Clients

Client Contact Phone/E-Mail Deliverable
AriaWest, International (affiliated with MediaOne International) John Vondras, Managing Director

Ernest W. Tuttle, CFO

+61 (21) 739-8222
(Jakarta, Indonesia)

Detailed business case for net revenue potential of a new services network in Indonesia.

Simulation forecasting model of customer values and demands for telephony, PCs, and multimedia in Indonesia.

 

A T & T Wireless Mike Salaiz +1-303-573-3128

New design for a Colorado network, demonstrating > 20% immediate savings in monthly costs of leasing DS1 and DS3 facilities for backhaul of cellular traffic, with much larger potential future savings as additional hubs are added.

 

AT&T Wireless National Planning Peter Neill
National Manager of Capacity Planning
+1-425-580-6290 Two-day workshop on integrated demand forecasting, capacity planning, and network design and optimization. This workshop brought together a dozen executives from marketing, RF engineering, network planning, and finance to develop a more effective planning process for AT&T Wireless's entire set of operations.
Level 3 Communications Russ Rushmeier 303-926-3213 Russ.Rushmeier@Level3.com Graphic User Interface to Strategic Pricing Model (October, 1999)
MediaOne Dave Pezzutti 303-858-3169 Identified and quantitatively evaluated systems and IT options for reducing service provisioning delays
PrimeCo Dr. Silver Miller
Director of Pricing Strategy
+1-972-337-3115 New causal forecasting method for predicting customer demand and load growth on PCS base stations.
Redback Networks Mark Jencks, Product Manager NetPlanner +1-720-932-7160 Network optimization suite for card-level configuration and deployment of Redback SmartEdge.
Sprint Corporation Magesh Srinivasan, Network Planning +1-913-534-5890

Delivery of a SONET ring planning tool used for legacy and next generation ADM and DCS modeling for Sprint national network.

Delivery of a DWDM Mesh topology planning tool used for OXC and DWDM modeling for Sprint national network.

 

Sprint Corporation Mike Johnson, Network Planning +1-913-534-2551 Metropolitan dark fiber network optimization tool for studying the economic tradeoff between purchasing dark fiber facilities, leasing facilities from the LEC, and using available capacity from existing microwave and SONET ring transport facilities.
Sprint PCS Dr. Dean Sirovica, Director of Switch and Interconnect +1-714-623-5561 Backhaul network optimization for a small city, saving over 12% of monthly backhaul costs.

Demand forecasting, engineering cost, and optimization model of switch capacity requirements, network load growth, and facilities planning and optimization. Identified 10% potential savings in switch module costs.

TCI (now A T & T Broadband and Internet Services) Paul Ernst +1-303-267-7442 Analyzed data from over 400 cable franchises to identify clusters of factors that best predict customer satisfaction and behavior.

Applied data mining algorithms to survey data to identify specific groups of customers who are most likely to (a) Upgrade to digital cable service; and
(b) Purchase combined cable and long-distance services from AT&T/TCI.

U S WEST Advanced Technologies Richard Berger, Director, Mathematical and Statistical Modeling +1 (303) 541-4066 -- Simulation model showing how technician appointment-scheduling processes can be revised to reduce delays experienced by customers without increasing operating costs.

-- Simulation model and analysis of Megabit Service Delivery processes.

-- Web-based (JAVA) graphic user interface for browsing and displaying trunking network reliability data and forecasts.

 

U S WEST Advanced Technologies Scott Parrish +1-303-541-6015

Discrete-event simulation model of trouble ticket-handling process. Identified changes in process and staffing that could reduce throughput delays by over 50%.

 

U S WEST Communications B.J. Deering,
Director of Market Intelligence and Decision Support

Dr. Jovan Barac

+1-206-345-7932 Causal forecasting and empirical validation of forecasts for access line growth in 14 states and for customer attrition behavior in King County.   

Data mining method and transition models for predicting customer purchase behaviors and targeting products to customers. Identified 50% potential sales revenue lift, based on survey data, by better statistical matching of product offers to customer needs.

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Financial Services and Insurance Clients

Client Contact Phone/E-Mail Deliverable
Allstate Dennis McGregor, Executive Vice President 847-402-1075

Data mining and quantitative modeling that supported the implementation of customer scores and predictive modeling tools at a Fortune 100 insurance company.

Merrill Lynch John Mcaffrey 609-282-0771 Data mining and predictive modeling support for Customer Imformation Management effort (January, 2000)

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Health Risk Analysis Clients

Client Contact Phone/E-Mail Deliverable
AlliedSignal Dave Paley +1-973-455-3302 Statistical design of sampling procedures for residential soils surrounding a hazardous waste site. The new statistical methods, developed in cooperation with the regional EPA, helped to focus the investigation and produce high-quality data for decision-making at far less cost than would have been expected using older sampling designs.
American Petroleum Institute (API) Pat Beatty 510-242-7037 Simulation model of the hematotoxic effects of drugs such as cyclophosphamide on stem cell populations in the bone marrow and more mature blood cell populations in the marrow and in circulating blood. The model has been shared with other scientists and hematologists and used to make useful predictions that were subsequently confirmed by experiments in mice.
Engine Manufacturer's Association Glenn Keller, Executive Director 312-644-6610x3549
Glenn_Keller@sba.com
Biostatistical review and comments on causal and epidemiological relationships between diesel exhaust exposure and human lung cancer. Major findings, including absence of an apparent causal relationship, were presented to the Clean Air Science Advisory Committee (CASAC) in May of 1998. The attached report contains detailed comments and up-to-date technical references, including many web links. These comments generally support CASAC's decision to have EPA revise their draft risk assessment and offer constructive suggestions for new methods and approaches that can help to overcome limitations in earlier risk assessments.

See the attached report for more information.

Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. Dr. Michael Bird 732-873-6067 Advanced software prototypes for (a) Detecting patterns in large databases to help predict the likely health effects of chemicals; and (b) Rapid exploratory simulation of stochastic models of carcinogenesis using different assumptions about cytotoxic and cell proliferation potencies of chemicals and their metabolites.

Others:

American Industrial Health Council (AIHC)

ARCO

Arthur D. Little, Inc.

California Department of Health Sciences

Chemical Manufacturer’s Association (CMA)

ENSR Engineering and Consulting

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Mobil Oil Corporation

Monsanto

PACE (Canadian Petroleum Association)

U S Department of Agriculture

Wastren

Western States Petroleum Association

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