>> Hi, I am Penn State Alumni of class of 2010.
I graduated with a degree in Finance from Smeal School of Business,
and my story is when I was a junior at Penn State I applied for an internship at Boeing,
which was a great learning opportunity coming into an engineering company
where the language almost seemed foreign to me because of all the acronyms
that the engineers loved to use in their day to day conversation.
So the first couple of months you know my head really was spinning with all these acronyms
and trying to figure out what does that really mean,
and I think the internship really helped me
to solidify an understanding of what I was getting into.
After the internship, I was able to interview for a rotational program called
"Business Career Foundation Program"
which is a two-year Leadership Development Rotation Program at Boeing.
I believe the financial operations role was really an easy sell for me
because it really involves a lot of the areas that I worked in before,
so I'm constantly working with my contract folks.
I'm always asking questions of the accounting people.
So I've built this network over the two years that I've been
in my assignments during the Rotation Program, and you know, the financial operation's role
that I'm in now you know, really relies on getting information from many different corners
of the company, so it really you know.
I think that's really kind of my story of how I got to my current role, and I'm really excited
about what the future holds, and I think Boeing is a really great company to work for.