Mark Lammers serves as the Director of the M.S. Data Science Program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington since 2003 and has held the position of Professor. Prior roles include Executive Vice President at United Advisors, LLC from 2007 to 2009, Assistant Professor at Western Washington University from 2001 to 2003, and Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina between 1999 and 2001. Mark Lammers earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Missouri-Columbia and has been associated with Missouri State University since 1987, where a degree in mathematics was also obtained.