My journey began in Louisville, Kentucky with 12 years of experience in the trucking industry and at that position I was providing network hardware and gateways support. I learned the trucking business and the processes by extracting data and developing reports for managers and co-workers and mentors. This was on the AS-400 system so it's a couple of years ago. By generating that data for those people they gifted me great professional knowledge and with that acumen, I was able to join a team that implemented a new dispatch building and driver paces from across the USA and Canada. I joined Intermountain Healthcare in 2009 as part of the Revenue cycle organization and I essentially repeated that pattern by working with managers to provide information that was not previously presented to them. I created a suite of daily, weekly and monthly reports which I was able to automate to various degrees and I have had the ability to investigate and be creative with my opportunities to learn. I've been very fortunate with that respect.

I am in the analytics department and I am assigned to specific projects and my role is to create business intelligence solutions for people and other departments so I have specific internal customers that I serve in those other departments and my responsibilities are developing reporting solutions for them and maintaining relationships with them, this includes discovering their data requirements, keeping them abreast of progress and deliver solutions which help them manage their departments. In effect, I am the product and project manager of everything I deliver so I need to manage the expectations with my internal clients, negotiate which features will be delivered in which phases of the project and also educate them with respect to both, with the logic that I am putting into the report as well as some of the limitations of the data. Some data may not be there or it may need their extra guidance on how they want something specifically calculated. My position does not require any travel. Sometimes I need to visit a site that is out of the country but It's nothing overnight and it's nothing repetitious, so zero travel for what I do. My boss has asked me my main hours of work are between nine and three because that's when my internal clients are in the office and that's when they need to be able to reach me and I'm allowed to work from home on Mondays and Fridays and I need to exchange one of those days for a different day because I have some sort of personal employment to attend to. I have that flexibility so I spend 40 hours a week working or in the office and like I said Mondays and Fridays, I get to work from home so that's very nice.

The majority of the data that I consume is aggregated into an oracle based data warehouse and in addition to having a laptop, I have access to both a Windows server 2016 virtual environment and the Windows 10 virtual environment, which are fantastic for me. Within these environments, I can develop within Oracle SQL developer I use a data blending tool called all tricks and I also use the data visualization application tableau. Something else that I've been able to do is write batch programs using the DOS command language or the Windows Command language and I can create those scripts and put those into Windows Task Scheduler and then I can schedule those to run in the weekly hours of the morning so that they're done when I come into work. I've been also doing some developing for some automation within both python and C sharp with python needs to have an interpreter when it's executed so that's more of an attended automation perspective and I haven't been trained in C sharp so I'm practicing that on my own but what I hope to do with that is to be able to create some unattended automation by creating some executables that I could then just also put into that batch that window's task scales or batch scripts of those can you can run unattended on the home. I like both python and C sharp for that, I do use oracle SQL developer instead of toad, which is another SQL tool, the oracle SQL just seems easier for me. I use notepad plus instead of just a regular notepad. other things that I use are snagit for screen capture I'll use camtasia for motion capture If I need to create a training type of video or presentation I will use the camtasia screen capture so that I can create something.