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Ive been programming since the fourth grade, Gmez said.I pulled down a book on BASIC, a general, high-level programming language, and I taught myself. By the time I went to CNU, I knew multiple programming languages already. I always loved nerding out with the other programming students, and knew I wanted to be a programmer after college.

After graduating from CNU in 2008, Gmez worked in a couple of different programming jobs before landing his current job with Silverchair, a Charlottesville-based company that delivers technology and publishing platforms to scientific, medical and technical publishers. He started out in programming and software development, and soon after joined an area Python meetup, where he developed a passion for data science. Gmez remembered it all clicking for him after attending the TomTom Founders Festival Machine Learning Conference.

Hearing from speakers and professional data scientists, it suddenly became real to me that data science was something I could do, he recalled. I loved computer science and I loved math. Data science mixes these two passions of mine, but would open career opportunities.

Gmez chose the online Master of Science in Data Science program because he wanted to continue his work at Silverchair, and the program allowed him the flexibility to do both. It also allowed him to stay in Charlottesville close to his parents, both of whom work at UVA, and to complement his CNU degree with a UVA masters.

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