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Who Is DataDude? A Little About Myself

Thanks for the intro @DataDude. We need to get together and play. I know it will be different clubs but you're welcome to hit any of my Cobra stuff just to get an idea if you think it would help. Either way, we need to get together with @xThor since you both have big events on the horizon.
 
Great story, thanks for sharing!
 
KY Golfer said:
Thanks for the intro @DataDude. We need to get together and play. I know it will be different clubs but you're welcome to hit any of my Cobra stuff just to get an idea if you think it would help. Either way, we need to get together with @xThor since you both have big events on the horizon.
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We are definitely going to play together this year!!!!!!!
 
Congratulations on the Captaincy!

Kentucky - aren't they known for some type of liquor? :unsure:
 
Great writeup.. I cannot wait to follow along!
 
DataDude said:
I figured after being chosen as Captain of Team Hackers for the Morgan Cup last night everyone might be a little curious about me and who I am so hear you go.

My name is Daniel Tatum. I was born in Manchester, KY and raised in London, KY. That's in Eastern Kentucky in the heart of Appalachia. I left London in 1998 after graduating high school and moved to Louisville, KY to attend the University Of Louisville. I partied a lot and failed out of school after 2 years and started working at UPS as a package handler and at Rafferty's Bar and Grill as a server. It took about 3 months at Rafferty's to make as much money on a weekend night as I did for an entire week at UPS so I quit UPS after working there for 6 months. That 6 months made me realize I did not want to do physical labor my whole life and motivated me to go back to school. I started back at a local school Indiana University Southeast in January of 2001 and graduated with a Bachelor Of Science in Economics in December of 2004 while serving and bartending to pay my way and fund a lot of fun.

I lived with 3 buddies throughout most of that time of my life and we all worked at Rafferty's so we were constantly having people over, going out, going to concerts, etc. During this time I got all of them started playing golf and 6 of my friends from this time are still my golfing buddies and best friends to this day. They all go on our annual golf trip we started in 2007 along with several others we have met along the way.

I met my wife Wendi in August of 2003 when she moved to Louisville after graduating from Western Kentucky University. She had worked at Rafferty's in Bowling Green and gotten a job teaching at Clarksville High School in Clarksville Indiana. She moved to Louisville a month before starting and was just working at Rafferty's to span that month before she started teaching. I saw her the first day she came in, but I was coming in for the night shift and she was leaving from the morning shift. She caught my eye and I asked one of the other ladies who worked that morning about her. Lucky for me my next shift we were both scheduled to open so introduced myself then. After talking for a bit we realized her apartment was right across the street from my apartment in Old Louisville (a section fo town where a lot of U of L students live). After this discovery she states we would have to go grab some lunch sometime. As dense as I can be at times I did not miss this invitation and I asked her out right then and there. We got married a year later. Why so fast? Well I proposed in May of 2004 and literally a week after proposing we found out she was pregnant with our son Saul so we just got married at the end of that summer.

Saul was born in February of 2005 and our daughter Josie was born in 2008. Both of them are amazing. Saul plays basketball and tennis with some mild interest in golf. Josie sings in the school choir and cheerleads. Josie has to prodded along in school (takes after her dad) while Saul is a people pleaser and takes care of everything without being asked (like my wife).

I work for Humana in Louisville and have been here since January of 2014. My career took a few twists and turns after graduating. A degree in economics doesn't really prepare you for anything so it was hard to find a job out of college. I ended up working in sales which I am just not geared for. I sold exporting and importing services for Expeditors International for a year and then sold flooring for 2 years until the housing crisis in 2008. My largest builder went bankrupt and I went from making about $40,000 a year to making about $16,000. I ended up back at Rafferty's working 2 jobs for a year or so before landing at Allstate as a claims adjuster. I did that for 3-1/2 years but it was an absolutely miserable job. If you want to lose your faith in humanity then adjust auto accidents. There is so much fraud on the injury side of that business that it is almost unimaginable. I had to have a change so I studied mathematics at the University Of Louisville for 3 semesters to get the background to become an actuary. I took 47 hours in 3 semesters, passed 2 actuarial exams, and networked like crazy to finally get a job I enjoyed at Humana. Once working there I found I had a real propensity for coding and working with data so after passing 2 more actuarial exams I decided I did not want to devote any more time to that and I transitioned to Business Intelligence Engineering in the company. I lead a team of 2 folks now and I could not be happier with my career.

My golf life started around 12 years old. My dad got promoted to the CFO position of Cumberland Valley National Bank in London, KY and a membership to the local country club was included. Dad didn't golf, but I knew several of my friends from our neighborhood were members and spent a lot of time at the pool during the summer so that's what I did too. I had mom drop me off at the pool at 9 when it opened every day and pick me up on her way home from work. Mid summer there was a golf camp everyone went to so I got a set of old clubs dad had in our basement and cleaned all the cobwebs off them and went to this golf camp. I was hooked from there. I got my first set of my own clubs when I was 13 and dad bought me a used set of PowerBuilt TPS from the pro shop. I also got a King Cobra driver (fitting right) with the pinch on the top that year for Christmas. Later I got a Callaway War Bird 3+ and 5 wood and a Cleveland 56* wedge to round out my set. At 15 I started working in the pros shop and stayed there till I was 19. After my first summer home from college I never went back to London again. My summers from that point on were golfing whichever part of the day I wasn't working and working the other half. I also spent some time hitting on the girls that lifeguarded at the pool of course.

As far as my life now I am also a part time volunteer pastor at a local church. My wife got involved in FCA when she taught and the guy who led that had started a church in his house. When Wendi met him they were meeting at the elementary school gym. We gave that a shot after an invitation in 2006 and 15 years later I help lead the church. We also have a building now and Andy (the lead pastor) is one of my best friends. He worked at Office Depot for years and 5 years ago we were finally able to pay him to be a full time pastor at the church. He is so passionate about ministry I think helping the church pay him full time is one of my proudest moments.

Aside from all that we bought a house directly on a golf course 2-1/2 years ago so I play a few holes a day almost every day. I love golf and I love THP. I put a picture of my family below as well.


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Hope you bleed blue and your membership was to crooked creek; but if your loyalties lie with lil brother and london country club I might be able to overlook them ... eventually

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Great to officially meet you! Awesome writeup will add to the follow as now I feel I know you a bit more! 👊
 
Good luck as Captain!
 
Great stuff! Congrats for being selected to be a captain!
 
TwoGlovesGarcia said:
Hope you bleed blue and your membership was to crooked creek; but if your loyalties lie with lil brother and london country club I might be able to overlook them ... eventually

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What if I bleed blue and I am a London Country Club guy? ;)

Crooked Creek opened my Freshman year of high school. My mom and dad moved out there after I left for school. They sold a year before it closed. Just in a nick of time.
 
KY Golfer said:
Thanks for the intro @DataDude. We need to get together and play. I know it will be different clubs but you're welcome to hit any of my Cobra stuff just to get an idea if you think it would help. Either way, we need to get together with @xThor since you both have big events on the horizon.
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Kentucky repping at some THP events so far this year hope that holds out for me and you @KY Golfer :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Great looking family!
I enjoyed reading your story. Good luck on the MC(y)
 
Good stuff. Nice share. I was a math major and got a 5 on the 1st actuarial and meantime was working thru college with a work/study deal and was exposed to underwriting at the Reinsurance Company I was at...The actuaries were like in a closet while the underwriters went to lunch with clients and played golf...so I went that route early. That was 1979.
 
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Life takes many turns! This turn took you right into Captain of Morgan Cup! Congrats you will do great!
 
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