Technologia del Mundo
by M.V. Greene
mgreene@ccgmag.com
THESE ENTERPRISING MINDS ARE BRINGING INNOVATION ABROAD TWO OF OUR 40 UNDER 40 SHINE ON THE
WORLD’S STAGE
These days, on the contemporary stage of business and industry, the opportu- nity to climb the corporate ladder often comes down to global experience.
The world truly is in the throes of a dynamically evolving global economy where materials may be sourced in one far-flung location, manufactured in another, and marketed and sold in oth- ers. Those with the ability to traverse the world and understand how to do busi- ness with cultures and countries beyond the United States find their services at a premium.
Two young Hispanic technical manag- ers, Marie Young of Intel Corp. and Miguel Antonio Franco of Halliburton Co., have done just that—led highly
specialized engineer- ing teams
responsible for key assignments for their corpora- tions across the globe. Both Young and Franco were among Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine’s 40 Under 40 recipients in 2010.
Marie Young
On the international dais, both say, heri- tage, ethnicity and skin color largely are afterthoughts to doing business.
“You go into a meeting in Malaysia and it’s very different than if you go into a meeting in the United States and it’s very different than when you go into a meeting in Ireland,” says Young, who
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heads a 65-person team in Portland, Oregon and Kulim, Malaysia, as man- ager of Intel’s Global Platform Analysis Center.
“You have to be flexible enough to tailor yourself to each dynamic as it changes and be open to listening to a completely different way of viewing a problem and/or a situation,” says Young, 40, who traveled extensively as a child in a military family. “As I have worked outside of the United States, it is more important to make a link on a personal level. In the United States, it is all direct, all professional. When you go outside (the United States), they want to know who you are as a person before they are comfortable and willing to share with you.”
Young, whose Native Ameri- can and Span- ish heritage dates back sev- eral generations to the Southwest United States and what is now Albu- querque, New Mexico, directs initiatives with
external Intel business partners globally in the area of boards and sys- tems failure analysis and manufacturing. The University of Arizona graduate with a Bachelor of Science in systems and industrial engineering travels to partner sites in China, India and Ireland in ad- dition to Malaysia, where 70 percent of her team is located.
Intel is a company where “analysis paralysis” is disdained as technical professionals are encouraged by its corporate culture to propel technologi-
cal processes by taking calculated risks on projects, Young says. Risk-taking, she adds, means not always seeking a “1,000 percent guarantee” that some- thing will work.
“You’re constantly balancing your technical capability with your schedule and with your funding. There are times when you have to make a trade off with each project. You take the data that you have—it has to be crisp data––and you have to make a judgment call on the ground and take action and propel a program forward. That’s where people set themselves apart at Intel, being able to make those decisions. And they’re tough decisions, but you have to stand behind them,” Young says.
One of Young’s current key projects en- compasses the area of product ecology, developing internal policies for pursuing sound environment principles that pro- mote the ethical, safe and healthy use of raw materials. One component of the initiative involves the development of diagnostic test equipment to gauge the limits of materials, such as recycling risk assessment, determining specifications and supply chain impact.
For Franco, 31, who is now a mea- surement-while-drilling engineer for Halliburton field operations in Texas and Louisiana, operating successfully on the global stage demands the ability to un- derstand and accommodate the person sitting across from you at the table.
“Building relationships is crucial while working as a field engineer in the oil field services industry,” Franco, a native of Panama City, Panama, says. “This industry is unique in that you both live and work with a team until the job is done, which can take months. Some- times there are several minorities work- ing with me, but many times I am the
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