Ted currently works as a Data Engineer on the Database Operations Team at CARFAX Canada. Ted is an enthusiastic, outside-the-box thinker, who masters new skills or technologies extremely quickly. Like many Data Professionals, his career path was not straight-cut. Ted started programming and building websites at the bright age of 12, and built his first database at age 16 (all self-taught). He studied at Western University (Ontario, Canada) with an Honours Degree in the Medical Sciences. To gain a greater global perspective, Ted spent 2 years traveling and studying overseas at in China. Before finding his calling working in Data, he banked a few years’ experience in Retail Sales Management and Business Development, giving him a balanced mind on both the business and technology side of solving problems.