I started my career at Washington University as an Administrative Assistant. While in this role, I discovered I truly enjoyed any data project I was given and frequently requested more. This motivated me to apply for the Data Science course through LaunchCode’s CoderGirl program (now Women’s+), largely working in Python with a little exposure to R. After completing the program, I continued expanding my skills through University College’s Data Analytics and Visualization and Statistical Programming with R courses. While improving my data skills, I moved into a new role as Data and Reporting Coordinator, and then into my current role of Reporting Specialist on the Data and Reporting team in University Advancement. I have also returned to LaunchCode as a Teaching Assistant with the Women’s+ Data Analytics cohort.As a Reporting Specialist, I have the opportunity to explore different avenues of data analytics within Washington University Advancement. I spend a large portion of my time building custom SQL outputs, or updating existing SQL to generate new outputs, for the reporting and strategy needs of stakeholders within Advancement. I maintain, improve, and create Tableau dashboards for use within Advancement and to be sent to campus partners. I also work on a cross-functional team to clean up some known data issues within our current database in preparation to migrate to our new database, ARCH, early next calendar year. I enjoy the puzzle of a complex query or getting to the root cause of a data issue we have discovered.As a Data Analytics Teaching Assistant with LaunchCode, I teach and support students who are developing Data Analysis, SQL, Tableau and Python skillsets. I work with students at our weekly class meetings and throughout the week via office hours.