Joel R. Fry

12 Aug 2025

Education

Profession Experience

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About Me

Born and raised in Oregon, I moved to Seattle in 1998 to escape a potential pitfall of having a life as documented in “Office Space”. After spending four years at a college I couldn’t afford, studying electrical engineering with a minor in theater, I ran away and joined the circus. By that I mean I spent 20 years and two days in the United States Air Force. I joined to do combat search and rescue, however, ended up spending my first term as a broadcast journalist with the American Forces Network (think “Good Moring, Vietnam” only less funny, but not for lack of trying), then retrained to be a federal agent with the Office of Special Investigations, protecting your tax dollars, collecting digital evidence, and finally working on protecting start-up businesses with Air Force contracts.

I’m taking this class as an elective for my MBA, I am planning on specializing in Finance. I am most interested in learning more about the data mining as I don’t feel like I received enough about that specific aspect of data science.

I just accepted a position to be a career coach for undergraduate business students. I have one child and three dogs on a 27.5 acre ranch where I take care of my parents.

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Experience With R and Data Mining

Tools I Use
  • R
  • SAS/SQL
  • Python
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Excel

Experience

I am trying to incorporate data science into all my MBA projects, and use the tools as I explore Finance and my other courses. Other than completing the MSDA here at UTSA I don’t have much experience and I am trying to make it a focal point of my tool kit.