I am Lourens, I am married and have one daughter with another on her way. Other than that, all you really to know is that I'm always right even when I'm wrong and by the way I'm awesome.
(Now that we have got the ego out of the way).
After studying and attaining my BCom Honours degree in Econometrics, I entered the working world, not quite knowing what to do with myself. I started as a financial advisor, or rather a glorified life insurance broker. After almost two years of dismal sales, I did a short stint in accounts for an online retailer and then moved on to an admin position for a medium sized brokerage. Here I stayed for two years, during which I revisited an old love of mine, computer programming. I proceeded to teach myself VBA through examples, implementing time saver techniques for things such as the disclosure documentation of the various brokers. During this time I also started to study towards a BSC degree in computer programming developing skills in SQL, HTML, PHP, C++ and VB .Net.
After two years at the brokerage, I realized that although I still did not know what I wanted to do, it was time for an actual challenge and I applied for the position at CDA as Reports Coordinator. I started in March 2012 and soon realized for the first time, I am doing something that matters to me. I proceeded to automate many of the repetitive tasks that were being performed (I call this donkey work) and this allowed me to not only provide better reports, but also branch out and assist in other areas of the business, which therefore led to me becoming a reports analyst (officially) in 2014.
I have been involved with ODDS from the beginning providing thoughts and running the process to score our leads. Moving forward as the senior reports analyst, I will be in charge of developing a team of report analysts in order to provide more efficient reports which will continue to evolve, this will assist our clients in making more efficient decisions. I will also be developing the ODDS model and any other BI tools to minimize uncertainty and maximize our awesomeness in providing better solutions to our clients. I'm also ranked at number three for the most difficult person to work with, in the company, my biggest goal is to reach number one in 2015.
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