As a 11+ years experienced IT professional, I have worked in various roles in SDLC lifecycle with various types of projects. I have worked from Project initiation, planning, requirement gathering, analysis, development, testing, deployment, maintenance and closeout in projects like custom software development, report development, loan management system, research and documentation, dashboards, and business intelligence software.
I would like to talk today about my love story with Data. This story started when I went to my masters degree at Cleveland State University in Cleveland Ohio. During my first semester, I came across Data Mining course and I was very fascinated with the possibilities it could bring to the human life. I would spend considerable amount of time working on the course and doing assignments and learning more from outside.
However, as a student, I needed to pay my bills. There was an opening in the social works department for a project with City of Cleveland, Dept. Of Public Health, which needed a web developer. Having prior programming experience, I picked up the job which would pay my tuition and living expenses. The job kept me busy for more than 40 hours a week where I got to learn web development and data modeling. This was interesting too. My love for data mining was taken over by my immediate needs of being able to survive and discovering a newer interesting field like relational databases.
Fast forward 2 years, I was done with my masters, with a resume that would reflect my additional 2 years of programming experience for the City.Needless to say, I ended up with a job in web development and continued for 5-6 years until I realized that even as a web developer, I am more engaged in projects when I am dealing with data.
Fast forward another 2 years, I realized, my web development skills were diminishing where as my interest towards advancement in data field like Big Data, Data Science and Predictive Analytics grew.
After about 8 years, I realized I was at a cross roads in my marriage with my wife(Web Development) and former girlfriend(Data Mining).
Today, when I look back at my journey, I am proud of the accomplishments I have made with web development and the transition that happened unintentionally towards data science with my love for RDBMS and opportunity for working on dashboard and other BI projects which are data intensive.
I would like to talk today about my love story with Data. This story started when I went to my masters degree at Cleveland State University in Cleveland Ohio. During my first semester, I came across Data Mining course and I was very fascinated with the possibilities it could bring to the human life. I would spend considerable amount of time working on the course and doing assignments and learning more from outside.
However, as a student, I needed to pay my bills. There was an opening in the social works department for a project with City of Cleveland, Dept. Of Public Health, which needed a web developer. Having prior programming experience, I picked up the job which would pay my tuition and living expenses. The job kept me busy for more than 40 hours a week where I got to learn web development and data modeling. This was interesting too. My love for data mining was taken over by my immediate needs of being able to survive and discovering a newer interesting field like relational databases.
Fast forward 2 years, I was done with my masters, with a resume that would reflect my additional 2 years of programming experience for the City.Needless to say, I ended up with a job in web development and continued for 5-6 years until I realized that even as a web developer, I am more engaged in projects when I am dealing with data.
Fast forward another 2 years, I realized, my web development skills were diminishing where as my interest towards advancement in data field like Big Data, Data Science and Predictive Analytics grew.
After about 8 years, I realized I was at a cross roads in my marriage with my wife(Web Development) and former girlfriend(Data Mining).
Today, when I look back at my journey, I am proud of the accomplishments I have made with web development and the transition that happened unintentionally towards data science with my love for RDBMS and opportunity for working on dashboard and other BI projects which are data intensive.
