I am a detail-oriented, precise, and naturally analytically minded laboratory scientist who is now ready to focus on data trending, analysis, and visualization. While going from test tubes to spreadsheets may seem like a large, strange jump, it feels like a natural progression for me. Data analytics is a major part of the “behind the scenes life” that few people know about, where the laboratory professional is concerned. As a "bench tech", supervisor &/or manager, statistical calculations are used daily, weekly, monthly and annually to assure that patients get the most accurate lab results possible. Armed with an MBA, I moved into the administrative realm and started working with more of the business type data and reports. It was when I was serving as the Director of Regional Quality for a Blood Center that I ran across a free webinar on PivotTables and Dashboards. After viewing this webinar, I was hooked. I developed my first dashboard using the information I gleaned from this webinar and in the intervening few years, I have taken numerous on-line courses and webinars to help enhance and solidify my knowledge of using Excel, PowerPivot, PowerPoint and Word. I am now at a point in my life and my career where I am ready and very eager to take the leap to make data analysis and visualization, the focus of my job, instead of a bullet point on my job description. In preparation to make this career change, I am working a certification as a Data Analyst through the Gener8tor program and am working on learning SQL using education from LinkedIn and Udemy. I am a lifelong learner and nothing excites me more than the opportunity to stretch my brain, learn new things and be able to use my skills & knowledge to assist in advancing my team.