After taking ~5 years off from school, I have decided to go back and work on my Masters of Science in Analytics at Texas A&M. Getting my MBA there was life changing, and I am proud of the growth and knowledge I earned there. The culture at A&M and the core values are something that are important to me and were a part of this decision. 

While many parts of this degree are things I have done on a daily basis for many years, I also hope to gain insights in the parts of the process I wasn't as familiar with. My goal is to become not only a better practioner and analytics evangelist, but a better teacher of analytic techniques as well. 

This week I took a HackRack test for a job interview. I didn't do as well as I expected. The code I wrote was functionally correct, but it was timing out on some of the longer use cases. I rewrote it a couple different ways, each time improving, but in the end time ran out while I was working on it and there was a bug left in it. 

Here is a link to my profile there.

In addition to testing job applicatants, they also have challenges in coding to demonstrate your abilities. I have since "leveled up" and learned much better what they are looking for. This week I went a little crazy and have earned two badges and completed 50+ challenges. 

EDITED: 8/18.2024

I posted too soon, there were a couple of slow Cardinals games so I finished SQL Gold. 

I have taken a lot of personality tests. Recently, I took a personality test as part of a job interview which was a first. While talking with a friend in sales about personality types, I realized that he didn't realize his customers were, what I am going to call,  Personality Signaling.