Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Steve Prast, Tesla (September 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84401 84401-21624506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Steven Prast is currently a Senior Staff Industrial Engineer at Tesla, having previously held a variety of leadership roles at the Gigafactories in Reno, Shanghai, and now Buffalo. Prior to coming to Tesla, he was a Senior Manager at Accenture responsible for multi-national technology consulting projects for a variety of Fortune 500 clients. Steven founded a software and consulting firm, EOS Solution, in 2007, which he eventually grew to include multiple offices in four countries serving the Aerospace, Defense and Petrochemical industries. He successfully sold and managed the acquisition of EOS Solutions in 2014 to PROSTEP GmbH before joining to Accenture. Steven graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering in 1998.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:22:48 -0400 2021-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-10T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Steven Prast
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Marcial Lapp, American Airlines (September 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84396 84396-21628578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Marcial Lapp is Managing Director of the Revenue Engineering group at American Airlines. His group is responsible for the systems and business process, including forecast & optimization of yield management, pricing and ancillary services/products that power our Revenue Management and Network Planning groups.

Marcial Lapp began his career in 2010 as an intern, where he developed the optimizer for the overbooking system, which is still in use today (though it’s been significantly enhanced since then). Following his internship, Marcial joined as Chief Scientist RM, where he led the development of an improved network controls model and managed a number of domestic markets. Following a period managing the Mexico, Caribbean & Latin America region, most recently Marcial had been leading the Operations Research and Data Science group, responsible for the technical implementations of systems that drive revenue outcomes.

Marcial earned a Doctorate in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan. He lives in Arlington with his wife, Allysen, and his son, Otto.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:05:05 -0400 2021-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Marcial Lapp
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Anne Shen Smith, Southern California Gas Company (September 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84393 84393-21623783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Anne Shen Smith retired in 2014 as the chairman and CEO of Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), a subsidiary of Sempra Energy. SoCalGas is the nation’s largest natural gas distribution utility, delivering energy services to over 23 million consumers.

Smith started her career with SoCalGas in 1977 and held leadership positions in marketing, public affairs, strategic planning, environmental policy, regulatory affairs, customer care, support services and operations. Smith received numerous awards for community service and environmental leadership. She was appointed to policy advisory commissions at the local, state, and federal levels. She served as a member of the board of directors for the PG&E Corporation (a Fortune 500 company), the American Gas Association, Coalition for Clean Air, Southern California Leadership Council, UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center, Asian American Advancing Justice Los Angeles, and California League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. She continues to be actively involved in her community, and is a member of The Trusteeship (an affiliate of the International Women’s Forum) and Women Corporate Directors.

Smith immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in 1964. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and has a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:14:21 -0400 2021-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Anne Shen Smith
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Heidi Smith & Jaspreet Singh, Bounteous (October 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84445 84445-21624505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bios:
Heidi is the Senior Vice President of Program Delivery at Bounteous. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 25 years of experience in project and program management, utilizing both agile and waterfall methodologies. With a combination of both industry and consulting experience, she has a proven track record of successfully leading solution delivery teams in dynamic and fast-paced environments across a broad spectrum of industry verticals and technologies. Heidi has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. She is also a board member of a women’s philanthropic organization, Impact100 Metro Detroit.

Jaspreet is the Chief Strategy and Insights Officer at Bounteous. In this role, Jaspreet is constantly striving to build upon our insights-driven reputation and deliver outstanding results when co-innovating with clients. Strategy and data/insights serve as the North Star in guiding Bounteous' work toward long-term success. The combination of these practices enables Bounteous to work nimbly when executing innovative digital transformations. His favorite part about this job is giving our talented people the support, guidance and tools they need to reach their full potential and soar. Jaspreet has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from NYU (Entrepreneurship/ Innovation & Marketing).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:14:52 -0400 2021-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Heidi Smith and Jaspreet Singh
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Nevena Paripovic, Facebook (October 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84849 84849-21625191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
After completing my MSE IOE, I joined the digital forensics team at a consulting company in San Francisco (SF) where I had the opportunity to work with many different tech companies to improve the inefficiencies for how data flows. It was a rewarding experience that allowed me a wide breadth of interesting challenges and approaches to privacy as well as fun travel and exposure to meet new people. I pivoted in-house to Facebook's (FB's) privacy program where I now work directly with teams implementing privacy by design before products are launched. My engineering background has prepared me to quickly and critically think through product proposals and effectively communicate privacy by design requirements.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:13:21 -0400 2021-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Nevena Paripovic
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Greg King, GAP (October 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86015 86015-21630949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Dr. Greg King is a Senior Director of Advanced Analytics and Data Science at Gap Inc. where he leads the teams that focus on analytics in the inventory management and product domains. The essence of his team's mandate is predicting what is going to sell and where (Forecasting). and then using that information to make the best possible decisions related to the placement of inventory (Inventory Optimization) and the pricing of merchandise (Price Optimization). Greg holds a Ph.D. and MS in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and regularly utilizes tools from Operations Research and Machine Learning for his work.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:51:41 -0400 2021-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Greg King
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Pamela Martinez Villarreal, University of Colorado Health System (October 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84659 84659-21624504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Pamela Martinez is a Health Systems Engineer at UCHealth, a nonprofit health care system that includes 12 Colorado hospitals and more than 150 clinics in Colorado, southern Wyoming and western Nebraska. She holds an MSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering with a concentration in Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety from the University of Michigan. Pamela works to deliver human-centered solutions that drive innovation, improve patient experience and increase the quality and efficiency of health care.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:51:58 -0400 2021-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Pamela Martinez Villarreal
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Kirk Wolfe, MK Capital (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84446 84446-21625746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Kirk is a Partner at MK Capital, an established venture capital firm with offices in Chicago and Ann Arbor. Kirk focuses on software and cloud services sector investment opportunities. Prior to joining MK Capital, Kirk spent considerable time in management roles for leading technology companies, including Ariba, Motorola and Accenture.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:08:15 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Kirk Wolfe
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Christine Hanon, Energy Biomass Sourcing (November 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84400 84400-21624503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Currently living near Paris, France, and raised in Michigan, Christine has pursued an international career. Working between Europe and the US over the past 30 years, she has transitioned from being a managing director in large corporations to becoming a business entrepreneur. After receiving her engineering degree with honors from the University of Michigan IOE department in 1989 and a diploma from the Sorbonne University in France, Christine has specialized in a diverse number of fields: automotive, environment, renewable energies, real estate investment and preventative health. Geographically, she has worked in Europe, the US and Mexico.

At the beginning of her career, she held management positions with automotive companies such as Faurecia and over the last 18 years has specialized in environmental issues, directing large-scale projects at the Veolia headquarters (a French international public-utilities services firm). She developed a solid knowledge of environmental systems including water, energy and waste/recycling, as well as a focus on renewable energies later, when she ran a business unit for developing solar and wind energy projects in Europe, including building the largest solar rooftop project in the world at the time with General Motors.

In 2012, she co-founded a renewable-energy biomass company, called Energy Biomass Sourcing, which supplies recycled and non-usable wood to utility companies, producing energy in Europe. She is currently running the company, with revenues of over 12m$/yr.

Being an entrepreneur and owning several companies has enabled Christine to explore different types of businesses and their potential growth. She is also an elected public official in the Parisian region and performs many civic duties (such as giving talks in schools to help children become more aware of the environmental challenges of our times).

She is married, has two children, and regularly practices running, water sports, reading and meditation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:16:51 -0400 2021-11-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Christine Hanon
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Ryan Chen, Orlando Magic (November 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84395 84395-21625186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
After four seasons as a data scientist in the Orlando Magic front office, Ryan Chen is a first-year student at Harvard Law School. With the Magic, his main role was to craft novel data sets and predictive models to guide decision-making pertaining to the NBA Draft. Ryan also supported pro personnel management with prediction models for NBA game outcomes to inform team strategic positioning and draft pick valuations and supported the coaching staff with data-driven analyses to inform in-game strategy. At Harvard, Ryan hopes to build a diversified skill set to enable future pursuits, whether within or outside of basketball.

Ryan is a 2014 graduate of the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial & Operations Engineering and Music Performance (Euphonium). He earned a Master's degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University in 2017.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:13:54 -0400 2021-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Ryan Chen
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Judy Xu, McKinsey Consulting (November 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86017 86017-21630950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Judy is an engagement manager at the Shanghai office. Her fields of expertise include consumer and advanced industries with a particular focus on supply chain management, end-to-end transformation, supply chain strategy design, and implementation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:18:24 -0400 2021-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Judy Xu
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Mike Miller, Stripe (December 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84394 84394-21624977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Mike Miller is the Head of Global Payment Acceptance at Stripe, a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet, aiming to lower the barriers to entrepreneurship and grow the GDP of the internet. In this role Mike and his team are responsible for global payment methods, payment infrastructure, payments APIs, and hosted user experiences, including Elements and Checkout. Formerly, Mike was the Director of Amazon Brand Program & Selling Partner Development. Prior to joining Amazon, Mike was in graduate school at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Arizona College of Law and is an active member of the WA state bar. He holds an undergraduate Industrial & Operations degree from the University of Michigan, where he was the President of his engineering class.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:08:38 -0500 2021-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Mike Miller, Stripe
LUNCH & LEARN: LIFE PLANNING WORKSHOP — Dave Ostreicher, Toyota (December 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89364 89364-21662354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio: Dave Ostreicher is a Manager in the Purchasing Supplier Development Division at Toyota’s North American Research & Development Headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In this role, he leads all facets of the procurement process for the billions of dollars of components needed for all Toyota and Lexus sedan production in North America.

Dave’s previous roles at Toyota have included the education and development of more than 350 supply chain professionals, the leadership of all supplier-facing information systems, and responsibility for North American stamped body shell components – valued at $1.5 billion per year. Dave was also selected for two different multi-year assignments in Japan at the company’s headquarters, the second of which will begin in 2022.

Prior to joining Toyota in 2004, Dave earned a BSE and MSE in Industrial & Operations Engineering, and an A.B. in Japanese Language & Literature from the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Nov 2021 11:24:59 -0500 2021-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Dave Ostreicher, Toyota
How can you leverage your IOE degree towards executive leadership roles? Learn from three successful IOE alums (April 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93065 93065-21700318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

IOE alums work in a wide range of industries, from consumer products to private equity to consulting, with many ultimately reaching executive leadership roles like Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Managing Partner, to name a few. The panelists for this lunch and learn will share their lessons learned in defining a career path to the highest levels of management in industry organizations like Amazon, Crate & Barrel, McKenzie-Childs, Unilever, Stride Consumer Partners, and more.

Sharon’s Bio:
Sharon Fox joined Stride as a founding member in 2019. She works closely with the investment and portfolio company management teams to identify and develop growth opportunities. Over the last 20+ years, she has gained hands-on experience across a wide range of customers, brands, and companies – specifically in brand and performance marketing, brand strategy, eCommerce development, new product innovation, consumer insights, digital product features, customer service, and omni-channel management. Prior to Stride, she was the CMO at Freshly and Melissa & Doug. Fox also led brand management for several organizations, including Amazon, Ralph Lauren, and Unilever. Fox grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Fox has a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Steve’s Bio:
As part of the founding team at Stride, Steve Berg helps entrepreneurs and founders build the next great consumer brands while building a next-generation investment firm. Prior to Stride, Berg was a Managing Partner at Castanea Partners. He joined Castanea because he wanted to work with entrepreneurs at a critical stage in their companies’ development to help them build their businesses. Prior to Castanea, Berg worked in the private equity group at Bain Capital, where I was involved with larger consumer and retail brands. He holds a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Wharton.

John’s Bio:
John Ling has been the CEO of passion brand MacKenzie-Childs, a high-end home furnishings retailer since September 2015. Ling spent much of his career (15 years) at Crate & Barrel, a leading home furnishings retailer with retail, catalog, and e-commerce presence. Ling provided leadership for Crate & Barrel’s e-commerce platform, international retail operations, global sourcing, vendor management, and end-to-end supply chain operations. Prior to MacKenzie-Childs, he was CEO for Artissimo Designs, the leading provider of fashion-forward and licensed wall-art to retailers. Early in his career, Ling was at Frito-Lay for 10 years with roles in plant management, industrial engineering, distribution, transportation and manufacturing engineering and subsequently spent four years with Merck-Medco Managed Care in general management, customer service, and engineering roles. Ling has a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA in Business Management with an emphasis in Finance from Southern Methodist University.

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Presentation Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:29:38 -0500 2022-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation Sharon Fox, Steve Berg, John Ling
How can you leverage your IOE degree towards executive leadership roles? Learn from three successful IOE alums (April 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94042 94042-21719400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

IOE alums work in a wide range of industries, from consumer products to private equity to consulting, with many ultimately reaching executive leadership roles like Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Managing Partner, to name a few. The panelists for this lunch and learn will share their lessons learned in defining a career path to the highest levels of management in industry organizations like Amazon, Crate & Barrel, McKenzie-Childs, Unilever, Stride Consumer Partners, and more.

Sharon’s Bio:
Sharon Fox joined Stride as a founding member in 2019. She works closely with the investment and portfolio company management teams to identify and develop growth opportunities. Over the last 20+ years, she has gained hands-on experience across a wide range of customers, brands, and companies – specifically in brand and performance marketing, brand strategy, eCommerce development, new product innovation, consumer insights, digital product features, customer service, and omni-channel management. Prior to Stride, she was the CMO at Freshly and Melissa & Doug. Fox also led brand management for several organizations, including Amazon, Ralph Lauren, and Unilever. Fox grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Fox has a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Steve’s Bio:
As part of the founding team at Stride, Steve Berg helps entrepreneurs and founders build the next great consumer brands while building a next-generation investment firm. Prior to Stride, Berg was a Managing Partner at Castanea Partners. He joined Castanea because he wanted to work with entrepreneurs at a critical stage in their companies’ development to help them build their businesses. Prior to Castanea, Berg worked in the private equity group at Bain Capital, where I was involved with larger consumer and retail brands. He holds a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Wharton.

John’s Bio:
John Ling has been the CEO of passion brand MacKenzie-Childs, a high-end home furnishings retailer since September 2015. Ling spent much of his career (15 years) at Crate & Barrel, a leading home furnishings retailer with retail, catalog, and e-commerce presence. Ling provided leadership for Crate & Barrel’s e-commerce platform, international retail operations, global sourcing, vendor management, and end-to-end supply chain operations. Prior to MacKenzie-Childs, he was CEO for Artissimo Designs, the leading provider of fashion-forward and licensed wall-art to retailers. Early in his career, Ling was at Frito-Lay for 10 years with roles in plant management, industrial engineering, distribution, transportation and manufacturing engineering and subsequently spent four years with Merck-Medco Managed Care in general management, customer service, and engineering roles. Ling has a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA in Business Management with an emphasis in Finance from Southern Methodist University.

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Presentation Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:17:32 -0400 2022-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation Sharon Fox, Steve Berg and John Ling