Ronald D. Moen was a statistician, consultant, and teacher to industry, government, healthcare, and education. He was a co-founder and partner of API (1984) and Adjunct Lecturer in the Physics and Engineering Science Department at the University of Michigan-Flint (1995-2005). His experiences of over 40 years include General Motors Corporation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He served as a Deming helper at 70 of his 4 day seminars (1983-1993). He was a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) since 1998.

He had advanced degrees in mathematics and in statistics and had given over 80 presentations and technical papers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Asia over the last 40 years. He received the Craig Award in 1988, 1990, and 1998 from the Automotive Division of the American Society for Quality. He co-authored the book Improving Quality through Planned Experimentation, third edition (McGraw-Hill, 2012) and The Improvement Guide, second edition (Jossey-Bass, 2009). He published in numerous journals, including ASQ’s Quality Progress in 1987, 1989, 2010, and 2016. He presented at the JSM 2019 conference on Deming’s Statistical Legacy.

He was a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the American Statistical Association (ASA). He was a Founding Member of Board of Trustees (1994-1997), Member of Advisory Council (1997-2017), and Trustee Emeritus (2018) of The W. Edwards Deming Institute. He, also, was a founding member of the Greater Detroit Deming Study Group (1987) and founding Member of the GQFW (1988, an international group of Consultants). In 2002 he was the recipient of the ASQ Deming Medal. .