A. Alexandre Trindade holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Colorado State University and was an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida prior to joining Texas Tech’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics. His main research interests include: time series; multivariate volatility modeling; state-space models and longitudinal data; saddle point-based bootstrap methodology and applications; asymptotic theory and higher-order approximations. His work on saddle point-based bootstrap has been funded by the National Security Agency. Dr. Trindade has extensive consulting experience; in 2003-04 he was the primary statistical consultant on a reliability project with The Boeing Company funded by DARPA, and in 2005 was contracted by Encision, Inc., for a reliability study on medical devices.