My name is Bill Graziano. I live in Charlotte, NC. My background is in development, business analysis, data analysis, IT management, and all the skills that goes along with them. As the ability for a corporate office to remote into satellite business locations, the need for a larger IT staff has significantly decreased, expecially in management. Many corporate offices are reducing satellite locations to one or more desktop support technicians for hands on support and relying on the department managers to report back on the success of failure of these technicians. I found myself looking for a new and exciting career in IT where I can use my background and the skills that I really enjoy doing. I started to notice a trend in the skills that employers were looking for. After researching them, I discovered Data Science, Big Data, and Data Visualization. I found my destination and needed a path. After researching several university data science programs, I found that the University of California, Irvine Extension offers certificate programs in Data Science, Predictive Analysis, Big Data, and Data Warehousing and Business Intellegence. I will have my certificate in Data Science (as an 'A' student) in December 2015. I will start the Predictive Analysis program in early January 2016 and have all four programs completed by the summer of 2016.
Bill Graziano
