Born on the П day of PC's birth year.Raised by an accountant, chemist, & electrical engineer.Started coding in grade school (rare in 80s USSR).Family waited 3 years, then given 3 months to fire-sell & leave Ru; Re-Started as Brooklyn corner day-laborer @17.Graduated Binghamton (back then considered "Public Ivy") Magna Cum Laude in Finance & MIS.Spent a few years in accounting, got my CPA.Started working with "Big Data" a decade before the term was added to the Oxford Dictionary.Worked with data from Tiffany & Co jewelry and Sony C.E.A. video games to BAE Systems' Bradley Fighting Vehicles and biggest global banks' markets divisions.So somewhat accomplished analyst, accountant, manager, and data expert(2) with two decades of experience in banking/economics/capital markets (Federal Reserve Bank), various manufacturing, financial, retail, and media industries (PricewaterhouseCoopers), and the ability to deal with demanding individuals (KPMG). I utilize my extensive background in collaborating with a wide variety of cultures, levels, and personality types to understand the client's need, then acquire and analyze large volumes of data and create visualizations/dashboards/websites for operational analytics and business intelligence. Highly skilled at explaining complex concepts to inexperts, both linguistically and technically. Possess strong critical thinking skills and value this trait most in those around me.Started as a wimpy Jewish boy in the USSR (with all its consequences), escaping as a refugee the perestroika chaos to the U.S. at the age of 16 to start off as a Brooklyn corner day-laborer. I've lived in the Baltics and the Balkans, Russia and Ukraine, both Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and even Africa a bit; I’ve successfully worked with Midwestern CEOs & Middle Eastern Programmers, Christians, Muslims, & agnostics (myself consider spiritual but not religious). I've broken bread with Brooklyn bums and written analytical reports for global decision makers.Student of history above all else, both world & personal.I wont put it in the work section, but if you got this far, fun fact: my first job in my early teens in perestroika-ravaged Leningrad was hustling western electronics my friend's father procured somewhere.1 - In Russian, 2nd meaning isn't "gift" but "reality"2 - As well as decent coder/programmer/developer---------------------------Lastly, if youre still here, you may actually end up @dataSCIsive.com, so please keep in mind: its an experimental work of art+science over ease of use and/or CRO. So you'll find some bugs.