Simply Rimmy

In my first blog I want to talk about myself. I am Rimmy, and I have created this website to document the things that I have learned and am learning. I do have a habit of journaling so this are would be more like a journal as I want my ideas to be out there in the world. I am an Introvert by nature such that it is really hard for me to share my feelings and my opinions, so this website is also a place for me to come out of my comfort zone and share things.

A little bit of my history.

I was born and brought up in Raipur, Chattisgarh in India. I did my Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur. After that I moved to Delhi (later to Mumbai) where I stated working as an Assistant Manager in Project Control Department of an EPC company. The work was fun initially when I was learning a lot but later it became boring and it came to a point where I quit the job just to be out of that job, without any backup job offers or anything planned. That was a tough time in my life and I cant thank enough my husband for all his help and support during this time. But, now when I look back I feel like that was the best decision that I took in my life. If I would not have taken that decision, I would have never known my real strenghts

After quiting, I started out as a freelance corporate trainer for Excel, Primavera and other MS Office Applications as I was good at it, and already had experience as In-house trainer. We also applied for Permanent Residency in Canada to openup more options for us. The freelancing work started growing quickly and within eight months I was earning almost 60% of my salary and there were new perspectives opening up as well. However around this time our permanent residency for Canada also got confirmed and we decided to move to Canada just to explore whats out there.

Life in Canada

First few months in Canada were really hard, but mainly due to cultural shock. Sunny got job within 2 months of moving here and I started out as a Data Analyst in State Street Financials after 3 months. When I joined the firm, I observed that there were many things that were done manually here, and I knew I could automate it. Especially there was one job that was required to be done everyday and took 8 hours to do. I asked my manager if I can try to automate this process and she was very happy with the proposal. I tried to create a VBA program to automate the process and it worked!! That Job was reduced to 20 mins of work and that too with just a click of a button. After this first automation project, there were many more projects that I completed successfully here.

It was during this time that I became pregnant with twins. I had to change my job in order to reduce the commute time and give more time to my family and my little ones.

I took a job as a Financial Analyst in Oshawa Clinic. Even here I was able to automate the work such that the job that took a whole month now took only 3 full days to complete. And basically made myself out of work. I knew I am good at automating things and I wanted to make this my forte. Hence I started taking classes for Certificate of Data Science from University of Toronto. Long story short, Currently I am working as an NLP Scientist in TradeSun and also providing consultancy to Oshawa Clinic for their process automation work.

This is my newest venture. This is where I want to consolidate my learnings and present the things that I know about. Wish me luck!!