Experiences at Kodak

Received technical support calls from Kodak costumers, including those from Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Mexico.
* Liaison with the technical staff.
* Created and sent detailed reports using ScanII, Lotus, and Excel.

* Managed worldwide advertising and direct-marketing programs yielding 40% increase in Photo CD revenue over previous year.
* Maintained marketing communications budgets up to $5 million; saved line of business
average of 15% per year through efficient cost control of integrated marketing programs.
* Produced marketing briefs, strategies, tactical projects for major WW product launches.
* Managed corporate PR activities and crisis communications efforts; generated 30% share-of-
voice growth for Professional business unit through innovative PR initiatives (re-purposing
of vertical trade case histories)....

Learn all you can. Make friends with as many people as you can. Do your job to the best of you abilities and never ever give up.

I learned that conflict if handled correctly can lead to synergy. I learned that a properly motivated team can work miracles. I learned that all work is a process and all processes can be improved.

The comeraderie and daily challenges. Every morning I would arrive knowing exactly what I would be doing that day but somehow within an hour something would come up and my day would get exciting.

Working in an environment of continually shrinking sales, layoffs every 6 months and yet experiencing high employee moral.

A group of us were standing outside of a conference room waiting for the previous meeting to finish and clear the room. Someone told a joke and we all started laughing. The boss walked up and said, "Didn't you get the memo? Laughter is being cut by 10% this year." We looked stunned. Then he started laughing and we all started laughing....

The best team was the Hub Supplier Quality Team. We were asked to meet an extremely aggressive schedule for implementing the quality system for a centralize materials receiving location and we were wildly successful by not only implementing the system but also by increasing quality levels from 3 sigma to 5 sigma for our key suppliers....

I found my job via an on campus interview at Michigan State.

Cutting the export setup logistics time from 4 hours to 5 minutes by automating the process.