>> I studied supply chain management at Pennsylvania State University
and the Smeal College of Business.
Originally, I went into school with the direction I'm getting into marketing
so I started out as a marketing major but you really don't declare
and make it official until your sophomore year.
At Penn State, they have a great supply chain program.
So, as I was taking my undergraduate--
or my beginning level classes and entry level business classes,
you started to hear this thing call supply chain which a lot of people
at the time were not familiar with.
And I myself, you know, kind of thought
that it was very much transportation, trucks, warehousing.
And I didn't really understand the whole world that was involved in supply chain
and how essentially a supply chain touches every company.
So, once I was kind of in the business school and you see a lot of that marketing going
on around that, I decided to try it out and switch over.
So, when the team kind of [inaudible] major I went the supply chain route and I loved it.
To me, it's a huge interface of marketing and supply chain with those business principles
that the Smeal College of Business provides no matter what major you are.
And so, starting in my junior year I started to realize I want to get into consulting
because I wanted to do a little bit of everything.
I didn't want to go and do the same thing everyday on the job.
And so when I graduated, I went that direction.