"After transferring to UMD, I chose Supply Chain Management because I wanted to be involved in logistics with an international organization. I am very proud to share that immediately after college, I joined the largest food producer in the world, Nestle. It was quite a privilege to get started there and now my career has really taken off. After Nestle, I worked at Bird Rides, where I managed the shipment of every Bird scooter in the United States, Latin America, and numerous other countries in the world. Now, I joined Amazon as a Transportation Manager, which is another step in my career. Looking back, I fulfilled that dream that I had at the World Bank. I've worked with three organizations now and I am very proud of that career achievement and how my career has taken off since then.
I want to tell younger alumni to have an open mind. There is so much more out there (opportunities, careers, skills) that you can develop and achieve if you have an open mind. You should explore all the possibilities and take risks! You may not feel confident sometimes, but you should still take the risk to go do an internship, pursue a job, a type of education, and/or a career field that may sound very difficult. If you take the risk, then you will know that you could do it. If you don’t take the risk you will never know. I come from a poor background and I struggled to learn English in high school. But I want you to know that it doesn’t matter where you come from, there is an opportunity to grow in this country, to get ahead. We don’t have to get stuck in the same place where we came from. We can grow, we can change, and go a completely different way."
