Teaching and sharing knowledge as well as making life easier through automation of processes is her passion. Alida loves working with data and used VBA, SQL, Python and Microsoft power BI extensively. Throughout her life she has written numerous applications using SQL and VBA. She has worked at numerous financial institutions as a data scientist, fund manager, risk analyst and researcher. She has also been privileged to teach at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She obtained her PhD in statistics in 1994 on modelling non-linear growth. She won 2 governors and numerous team awards at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) through automation of processes in the Financial Markets Department (FMD). She loves life and is passionate about everything she does. Her motto is to maximize and go with the flow..