Graduated in 2016 with a major in Music Business. Principal instrument: piano.
Position: Data and Reporting Analyst at Healthstream, Inc., a large, Nashville-based tech firm that develops and sells many different pieces of medical-related software. Bradley reports regarding software licensure and usage for their clients. On a team of six, Bradley handles 7 huge accounts, each of which spends over $10,000,000 per year on software!) His job is broken into super-huge accounts (health groups with dozens of hospitals) that get full-time attention. He compiles data, analyzes it, and puts it into reports for the sales team and others. In the near future he’ll present to clients, walking them through reports. Between those reports, he handles ad hoc requests as they come in. Currently he’s also working on automating many processes, updating old scripts, etc., so he codes daily.
Overview: In his last year at Berklee, Bradley was working at an Apple store. After graduation, many of his friends were moving to Nashville, so he transferred to an Apple store in Nashville. He gigged and met people, then a year later an Apple store customer who worked at UMG put in the word and got Bradley a position there doing data entry. Bradley worked there for four year, gigging on the side, but at some point the job felt stagnant without the likelihood of promotion. In 2020, he used YouTube and Udemi/Courseacademy to learn SEQL and did a bit of side work on this. In early 2021 he left the UMG job voluntarily, living off savings plus gig income, and started to actively look for other opportunities, applying to 5 – 10 positions each day.
It took over 1,000 applications, but finally one application worked! Bradly was hired into his current positionin the spring of 2022.
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You can see Bradley’s LinkedIn profile here.
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Choice Quotes: “I enjoy the investigative part of data analytics, finding answers to questions, being able to speak a special langage and translating it for those who don’t speak it. It’s like being a translator, folks looking for me to tell a coherent story.”
“Berklee does a good job giving you the tools to be confident enough to know your musical strengths and get up and go do it. That can-do mentaltity translates to many other areas.”
“In today’s job market, most companies (outside of things like law, where you need a degree) are looking for what you can do rather than what school you went to. There are endless resources for you to learn new careers.”
“Our company is packed into the back end of their software usage. We see each time a license is activated, so we track how often a license is used. We partner with the sales team, that then uses the info to see what other needs we may be able to fill. This also includes when software isn’t being used.”
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