Well hey there. Thanks for taking an interest in me. My name is Chaz Mc Bride. I’m American, born in Kansas City, Missouri, raised in Sacramento, California. I was raised by mid western farmer parents with a military background. My parents worked my brother, sister and I hard when we were kids. I say we were raised with farmer values in a city setting, so a bit of both styles in me. My mother and father divorced when I was just a baby so every year my siblings and I would go back to Missouri to visit family for the summer. When we got old enough we would take turns going just 1 of us at a time, I started traveling cross country by myself at age 10, and this instilled a love of travel in me.

After I graduated university in 2010 my main goal was to travel and see more of the world and learn what all else there was out there. I have lived in South Korea for 6 years, Vietnam for 3 years, Germany for 6 months, and traveled to ~40 countries. I speak Korean and Spanish reasonably, though both are getting rusty due to lack of practice. I know some basic phrases in probably 10+ languages, and I am currently working on my Vietnamese, though I must admit it is an incredibly difficult language to get past the initial learning phases.

I love to learn and grow as a person. I was a teacher for over 10 years, though have held many various jobs in my life, from maintenance technician, safety technician for a fire spinning group, soccer (European football) referee, bartender, IT installation tech, English curriculum developer, voice actor, party promoter, accountant, window washer, and more. I thought I was going to be a teacher as my career, but when I went to set my roots back down in California and was teaching full time at public schools in my hometown, I realized it was not what I wanted. Part of me loves teaching, and always will, but I want more possibilities than teaching allows. So I started playing around with Python without a specific purpose for doing so. As I got more into it I started looking into what I might be able to do with it that interested me. I browsed through possible career change options and Data Analytics caught my eye. I took a couple basic courses on it and really enjoyed it. As I kept working in Analytics, learning SQL, Tableau and other skills it solidified my decision that this is what I want to do. Analytics allows me to learn not just technical skills that grow my skills, but also use those skills to find real life applications and solutions to problems in infinite domains. I would love to be able to work in different fields and learn about those fields while helping people with my findings. That is what I am now, a Data Analyst.