Hello Steemians, I am excited to meet you all and have high expectations for the potential of this transformative platform.
My name is Devon, and I am a 29-year-old market analyst for an international Ed Tech company based in Cape Town, South Africa. My primary role is to analyse the market demand and potential benefit of various subject matter vertices to help Universities decide on which courses to develop for the online market. In this capacity, I have the amazing privilege of working with some of the world's most prestigious Universities such as Harvard, MIT and Cambridge to name a few, and, apart from working with some amazingly intelligent individuals, I have the added bonus of being able to research and learn about interesting things all day, which, in the near future I hope to share with you.
Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devon-king-92149b54/
I am a father of soon to be 2 beautiful human beings, although the verdict is still out on the second, and, apart from work and family, my interests include:
All things technology
Blockchain
IOT
Machine Learning
Data Analysis
Consumer Psychology
Global Economics and Politics
Sustainability
Playing music
And a little bit of cheeky gaming when the wife allows
I consider myself an open-minded individual although I am still trying to understand the post-truth Trump era we find ourselves in today. In my younger years I used be a professional athlete and after exhausting my family's budget representing South Africa on numerous sporting tours (not funded by the government over here) I made the move to the UK to represent the country in their olympic potential triathlon team due to my family being British and me having dual citizenship. There I had the chance to train and compete with now, 2 times olympic champion Alistair Brownlee and his brother Jonathan, as well as, having all my tours and equipment funded, much to the excitement of my father and his bank account.
After realising that hurting oneself for 5-7 hours a day in training was best left for the Brownlee's, I decided to pursue my studies at UCT where I learnt a great deal about socialising, the power of the human liver and kidneys (thankfully I still have both) and most importantly just how little I knew and would ever know about the world. Starting with an LLB Law and moving to a Bsc in Politics, Economics, Philosophy and Statistics before landing a job in Digital Marketing…… (The traditional education model is weird, I know) I developed a healthy appreciation for inebriated social dynamics, poor living standards and unhealthy food but, also left with a very diverse perspective on life guided more than anything by the privilege of being able to interact and engage with an intelligent peer group.
My career started with a chance meeting with the CEO of a company which at the time was working in the new and exciting field of SEO and Digital Marketing, and although a weird direction to take given my studies, the field allowed me the opportunity to upskill and become an expert far faster than would have been possible in a more traditional and established industry, and, being able to provide guidance and advice to senior executives far more experienced and knowledgeable than I, due to the subject matter being foreign to them, really stimulated my thirst for knowledge and technology. Through working with digital advertising platforms I learnt to make use of statistics for data analysis utilising search trends and social indicators as well as integrating lessons learnt through psychology and consumer behaviour to develop a skill set in analysis which has lead, in what seems the blink of an eye, to 6 years later and back to the top of this page where I am today.
I am excited to join this growing community as well as to stop this somewhat embarrassing overshare, and look forward to contributing some of my thoughts and findings on topics ranging from education, the business applications of blockchain technology, random commentary on the laughable state of our current political economy and pretty much anything I find interesting from the general research I do.
Here is too meeting as many of you in the near future as possible.
All the best
Devon
Hello & Welcome Devon,
I am @digital-gypsy - nice to meet you:)
I think with your topics you will reach out many people here and get their attention !
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Good Luck & Cheers
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Welcome to this fabulous community! I post about cryptos, economy, silver,etc. Please checkout my posts to see if they interest you and my policy is if you follow me I will follow you. Welcome again and Steem on!
Hi Lengle2811, thanks for the welcome. I will definitely have a look through your posts as I am neck deep in crypto research at the moment and always enjoy another perspective. :-)
Aloha Devon, welcome to Steemit!!
Awesome introduction. You will do very well on this platform.
I am looking forward to more posts from you.
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Thanks Quaintrelle. :-)
Welcome aboard this amazing community where you'll meet great minds.
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Wow ... So much range of intrest ..such a beautiful family .. awesome hobbbies I can go on) ..Man you sure are cool ... .. would love to read more posts by you .. keep posting
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You Can follow me @utfull if you like
Will follow you back! See you around.
Thanks for the kind words Utfull, how could I not follow you after that. :-)
Congratulations on landing yourself on the hippest and fast growing Social Media platform on the planet.Get ready buckle up !!!!! we going to mars with STEEMIT SHUTTLE!!!!!
THANK YOU
Welcome to this amazing community!
We just started a blog as well about me and my wife's music career, you're welcome to check it out :) @leoandbell
Welcome to the platform, I wish everything work out for you. It’s not easy here but not difficult neither but just ask an extra effort, engagement is the key good luck I’m @goodaytraders Start by following people and they will do the same.
Thanks for the welcome and advice. :-)
Welcome to the community!!! It seems like you are a perfect steemian. Steemit is full of like minded people and you will feel right at home.
I look forward to seeing your future posts!
Thanks arqtype.
Welcome mate!
Welcome to Steemit! I hope you like it here as much as I do. I'm always learning from others, so feel free to connect with me @lulita 😀
Thanks Lulita.
Welcome @devonking to Steemit, and Upvote🙂
Great introductio post Devin! Welcome to Steemit! I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do! :-)
Thanks Bart, from the looks for it I am sure I will.