I am a first-generation Mexican/Dominican American and also the first college graduate in my family.  My journey has taken me from working in the service industry as a barista while I helped pay my way through college and then working my way up to a retail sales management role. These roles really helped me cultivate skills in communication, collaboration, problem-solving while identifying the needs of different stakeholders.

My education culminated in Data Science where I first learned technical skills in Python & SQL to develop predictive and classification models. The pivot to Data Science occurred after taking a financial analysis class while earning my MBA, using quantitative analysis for financial reports. I soon learned that with Data Science you can use a variety of analytical techniques to derive insights using a variety of tools on a variety of datasets at tremendous scales.   I found myself locked in and teaching myself the basics of Python and Pandas.  At that moment I knew this was what I wanted to do.  I joined General Assembly's Data Science bootcamp and punctuated the commitment by quitting my job and selling my car.  There is no doubt I am extremely passionate & committed to data.  

Since then I have been able to apply my technical acumen and craft as an Analytics Engineer in startup and corporate environments.  I have been able to learn about various ways of ingesting data, transforming it, testing it and producing insights through reports and dashboards.  Here I realized my passion is in the various ways you can work with data