Data Science vs. Operations Science

Mark Spearman is the Technical Director of the Project Production Institute and Director of Technical Solutions for Strategic Project Solutions.

Before joining SPS, Spearman was associate professor industrial engineering and management sciences at Northwestern University, professor of industrial and systems engineering at Georgia Tech, and Department Head of industrial engineering and systems engineering at Texas A&M University.

After leaving academia in 2001, he formed Factory Physics, Inc., a consulting and software company dedicated to helping manufacturing companies improve their operations. In 2018, FPI was acquired by SPS and he joined the team.

Spearman is coauthor with Wallace J. Hopp of the book, Factory Physics, named the Institute of Industrial Engineers Book of the Year.

William Spearman joined Liverpool FC in 2018 as Lead Data Scientist. From 2015 to 2018, he was a Data Scientist at Hudl. William has used spatiotemporal tracking data to identify tactical insights and key moments in football. He has used physics-based modelling to construct visualisable models of open space, pass difficulty, and off-ball scoring opportunity.

Before Hudl, William completed his PhD, a measurement of the mass and width of the newly discovered Higgs Boson, at Harvard University through a collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).