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That's a good question. I would say that there were several influential experiences that I had. That kind of got me where I work. Where I am today. I did an undergraduate degree of voices, State University history, kind of trajectory that was heading towards maybe law school and that history would be a background for that. But while I was in my undergraduate program, I started my own business and ran that business while I was going to school for up to 6-8 years as a Spanish interpreter. Got a Supreme Court, as well as some of the medical facilities, were way, see the whole area. And so after I had that experience of running my own business, I realized that maybe law school and law wasn't the right career path for me and the light. You know how every successful business, but I want a little bit more training and education. So I moved down to Salt Lake City, enrolled in an MBA program at the University of Utah. I would say that an entrepreneurial experience I had early on in my career, coupled with the MBA experience, was hugely influential and hitting me where I am today. apparently worked for a medical device. Cliffy execute Pinson and Into product management for their access devices. And I think without that entrepreneurial experience and with strategy, business finance, marketing, training, and an MBA, I probably wouldn't be a two-point that I have today. I feel like it was hugely influential in, and then a little meeting figure out which path I wanted to go in my career. I finally feel now that I've found an industry that I could build a career in as well as you know, a profession within marketing. It's something I really enjoy, and I love the idea of helping people as part of on the last community.
I'm responsible for a specific product line within our vascular access device or Fulvio. I worked with our Doctors. I have global responsibility for the middle of it. So we have seven regions within, the world and I am the global product manager for the product line. And I work with the regional profit managers that are within each of those regions have lost those products in their specific markets. The one way to look at it is that I'm the product expert globally and they're the market experts and their specific regions and so experts he's worked with them to be able to launch these products, you know, Europe and America, Africa, Asia, all the different regions that we have. So in some ways, it's a little bit like running your own business and that you have a profit loss, responsibility for how the product performs. You worked with all the different functions within your organization to make sure that from a are you standpoint and a regulatory standpoint, quality sample in reading all the firm interested and so it's a fun way to kind of feel like you're a little bit of entrepreneurial spirit. Working in a large corporation. Like BD, I would say the weekly hours that I spent in the office are between 40 and 50. I do do a little bit of work at home, sometimes in the evenings and mornings. One of the exciting parts of how much off is the word travel that I get to do because I'm a Global marketing manager. I get the opportunity to travel internationally of the exterior of Visit India and Korea, Singapore, Brazil, several countries with Europe, Canada. And so for me, that's a really fun part of the job exposed to those different cultures, work with different business units and see the world me had been having optically visit. So I really enjoy the travel aspect of it. My prior ill before this, I was more focused on the US, and so I got to see a lot of US as well. But I really enjoy international travels, I think it says working for a multinational company like BD in some time during the year can be a little overwhelming. But in most cases of you, it is something that's an exciting opportunity to kind of understand our business and travel all parts of the world.
I would say the tools that I use on my role are fairly basic. You know Excel Powerpoint. There, we do have some specialized tools that are unique to BD. But most of the stuff that I'm doing are things that the students learn in business school working with basic windows package. I do speak fluent Spanish, and so I do use some different languages. Sometimes when I'm working with parts of Latin America. We do have some algorithms that we've used recently for some pricing on global pricing initiatives on their very complicated at things got enough to create those. But I do get the information. That's that's true. And I have been So, I prefer to use tools that are very simple. I think other functions within the organization you use more specialized software programs and models, but I mostly monitor Excel.