-: For me, I really like the breadth
of what I get to experience.
I've been an engineer in my previous roles
at Honeywell Aerospace,
and I've learned a ton about the technical sides
of developing a product, manufacturing a product,
and then it's really cool about my job now,
is I kinda get more exposure
to some of the strategies we have
when we are starting a new product.
You know, how do we decide what kind of features
are gonna be in the product,
how do we decide what customers
we should go try to sell it to.
And then I also get to see more of the,
I'll call it the financial aspects of running this business
which as an engineer, you do get to see that,
but I get more direct accountability now
as a program manager, which is really fascinating to me,
to kinda be able to combine some of the
technical background that I have
with the more financial and business acumen
that is needed in a big for-profit company.
I work with a very geographically disperse team,
so I actually don't work with anybody in my same state.
I work with people in Canada, in the US,
a lot of people in the Czech Republic,
the United Kingdom, India, China.
So I try to do a decent amount of traveling,
and for me really like to be with the team,
and be able to interact with them on a face-to-face basis.
I'd rather do a personal face-to-face meeting
rather than a phone call.
So some of that can be difficult
just for my management style.
I like to be face-to-face,
so being on the phone all the time
kind of gets a little bit fatiguing over time,
but it kind is a good opportunity also to be able to travel,
and it gives me great exposure to different cultures too,
which is something that I didn't have as an engineer,
mostly working with US-based teams.