I work as a Data Analyst, but in reality I’m a Swiss Army knife. You need some data engineering? I got you. How about experimental design and hypothesis testing? I can cover your Frequentist and Bayesian needs. DBA? I’m handing out Postgres roles right now. Dashboards? I eat them for breakfast. What’s that? You need an RShiny application dockerized? I’ll build it and containerize it. Now you want time series forecasts? I cut my teeth writing ARIMA models on the initial release of RStudio. I’m a data focused tech nerd, late to the software engineering party because they spent too much time hanging out in the ecology research world. Along that journey, I spent some years working in specialty sales and operations. In all seriousness, the variety of work not only opened doors, but underpinned the central motif of my career thus far: Identifying a problem is easy (usually), understanding the problem is the hard part. Quality analytics isn't just fixing data centric problems or building data centric solutions. It’s also comprehending the broader implications that both the problem and potential solutions impose on systems, workflows, or organizations. Moreover, delivering meaningful solutions depends on the art of persuasion. Convincing folks to think outside of the box is a valuable skill, and one I continually work on. I do a lot of things in the data space. I enjoy the data space. Lately, I spend most of my time using a combination of R, SQL, and Power BI, with a little bit of Python here and there. My work and professional interests lie at the intersection of statistical modeling, developing analysis tools and applications, and solving general business optimization problems. I value scalability and robust documentation so that data products and systems I work on are intuitive to use, collaborate on, and maintain. Moreover, I strive to foster a sense of curiosity, transparency, and openness. A group, a team, an enterprise, an institution, is not as strong as the strongest individual, they’re only as strong as the weakest link. Taking time to lift a single person up makes the whole group stronger.