What I Do After 30+ years graduated as Civil Engineer, today I am working as part of the Business Performance team. We look for opportunities to implement new technologies, improve the existing processes, and for a continuous improvement. Engineers not only solve problems, but we also look for problems (gaps, constraints) to improve.
School Days I studied in Caracas, Venezuela, where I am from. I graduated as Structural Engineer (in US is call Civil Engineering). We studied concrete and steel design, materials, fluids and transportation. Then I did an MBA in Finance, it opened new opportunities later on my career.
My Day At Work Now days is to listen to our stakeholders to understand issues and opportunities, then we frame the potential project and work on improving the processes and look for new technologies that we can pilot or implement. But the most important is to keep the communication with the stakeholders and the affected groups, need to be sure they understand the value of the changes to assure they adopt the new way to do the work.
Best Part Cross-functional opportunities: I worked in construction site, seeing what we had designed, worked in Oil & Gas Refineries, with international Corporations, learning their culture.
Proud Moments Keep learning, keep growing professionally and built a big network (lot of them my friends). Mindset, ready for challenges and changes.
Challenges Chemistry was my favorite subject in High School, my teacher was a Petroleum Engineer, that was the field that initially called my attention, but she mentioned that was a hard area, mainly men job. That was discouraging, but not for you - now female engineers are in all the fields, and we need to keep pursuing for more representation.
Dreams and Goals I am applying the logic & structural thinking, engineering skills, to improve process and the way we do business for Environmental Management. Take care of the environment and clean/repair. I am building fluency in this new area.
Want to be an Engineer? Connect with others, learn, ask questions, recognize if you do not know but reassure that you will learn and do your best.