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Bronin's staying put in city hall
"After thinking hard and
wrestling with this decision,
I have decided to end my
exploratory committee and
stay focused on my work as
mayor."
Hartford Mayor Luke
Bronin on his decision not
to run for governor.
Tej Anand | Chief Data Officer, CareCentrix
By John Stearns
jstearns@HartfordBusiness.com
Hartford-based CareCentrix, which oversees
homecare service and equipment providers
on behalf of insurers, launched a program in
January training military
veterans for data-analysis
roles, injecting the company
with new perspectives while
providing employment op-
portunities for vets.
Vets for Data, developed
with New York nonprofit
Workforce Opportunity Ser-
vices, has been professional-
ly and personally rewarding,
said Tej Anand, chief data officer at CareCentrix.
The first cohort has injected CareCentrix with
fresh talent, trained specifically on data and ana-
lytics, Anand said.
"It's been a real honor to work with these col-
leagues and to offer them this opportunity to
launch their career in a new direction," he said.
Workforce Opportunity Services (WOS) found
the vets for CareCentrix and the two developed
a training program and trained four vets in
CareCentrix's Stamford office over five weeks.
The vets are now consultants for CareCentrix
and full-time WOS employees. After six months,
CareCentrix, which has about 500 workers in
Hartford, can hire them full time, Anand said.
Why did you start the program?
We are working hard to rethink the way health
care is delivered. Our goal with the program was
to infuse the organization with colleagues whose
experience in the armed services would provide
a fresh approach to revolutionizing health care.
What's the competition for hiring data analysts?
While the competitive landscape for hiring
data analysts is challenging, our main motiva-
tion was to create opportunity for veterans; build
on their strengths — leadership, discipline, criti-
cal thinking; and train individuals to do analysis
based on an approach that integrates critical
thinking as the leading component (this is differ-
ent than what's taught in many universities).
Tell us something about you many people don't
know.
I am passionate about making insights from
data available to people without the minutiae
of underlying math. In 1989, I joined a few col-
leagues and imagined the field of data mining
and knowledge discovery in databases. This com-
munity blossomed and pioneered what's now
known as data science. Since about 1994, I have
worked in health care, where I believe the poten-
tial of using data to make a difference in lives is
the most pronounced.
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CT tests driverless cars
"Make no mistake,
autonomous vehicles are
the future of transportation,
whether it is people looking for
a safer and easier commute,
more efficient and cheaper
commercial transit, more
precise ride-sharing and for-
hire services, or beyond."
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on the launch of the
state's driverless vehicle testing program.