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Here we celebrate and showcase dedicated, talented people whose work helps inspire innovation and continuous improvement. Hover over or click on each person's picture to read more about them and their time at Emerson.
Joyce Demetria
Educational Services Instructor
Round Rock, Texas
Time with Emerson: 11 Years
Education: Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering degree from University of the Philippines - Diliman
What do you do? As an instructor, I help train our customers and partners, often the next generation of engineers, on Emerson’s DeltaV™ distributed control system, so they can help their organizations improve performance and production by making safe and effective operational decisions on a daily basis.
Why engineering? I’ve always been fascinated by how chemistry and chemical engineering improves our daily lives. Almost every consumer product in the world involves chemistry and chemical engineering at some level. Also, engineers are problem solvers and I’m excited by finding solutions to challenges.
What’s the best part of being an engineer? Being an engineer has allowed me flexibility to dive into different roles from a support and field engineer in Manila to an instructor in Singapore and now in Austin, Texas. All the while, engineering has allowed me to travel and meet people, including many wonderful customers, from Asia to here in North America.
What inspires you most about being an engineer? It might seem funny, but Marie Kondo is my current inspiration. To me, she exemplifies how you can turn things around with a positive attitude and influence others in the process. Her method is so simple, but effective and helps remind me to find ways to spark joy in my life and others.
Xinhao Gu
Manager, Web Software
Kennesaw, Georgia
Time with Emerson: 5 years
Education: Master of Science, Computer Engineering degree from Kennesaw State University and Bachelor of Science, Computer Science degree from Xi’an Shiyou University
What do you do? I am a Software Engineer and I work on our Flagship product, the Site Supervisor.
Why engineering? I like solving puzzles, being an engineer is like having the privilege to solve all kinds of puzzles.
What’s the best part of being an engineer? The best part of being an engineer is having endless fun while helping the company solve the problems.
What inspires you most about being an engineer? “Consider It Solved” – John Wesley Emerson established Emerson in 1890, targeted to solve the world’s and customer’s problems. Now after 129 years, the company continues its journey to make the customer happy by solving their problems, and that significantly encourages and inspires me every day working at Emerson.
Ben Skal
Product Manager for Plantweb Optics
Round Rock, Texas
Time with Emerson: 4 years
Education: Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering degree from Penn State University and Master of Business Administration degree form Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business
What do you do? Currently I am the product manager for Plantweb Optics, Emerson’s asset performance platform. I work closely with our customers to understand how Plantweb Optics can improve their workflows and help digitally transform their operations to improve operational performance and reliability. I leverage my engineering and business backgrounds to understand the market and our competitors and develop a product roadmap that continually evolves Plantweb Optics to meet customer and market needs.
Why engineering? Engineering is all about solving problems. Today, many opportunities exist around the prevalence of data. With all this data being generated by devices and systems, how do you use this information to gather new insights and drive better decision making? That’s an exciting problem to solve and one of the ways that engineering challenges me in unique ways.
What’s the best part of being an engineer? You never know what you might be working on next. Through my experiences, I’ve had the opportunity to work in all sorts of different functions and industries. My first role in Emerson was in project management for power plants and applying automation technologies to control the plants. Next, I spent a year working on business development for wind energy and it was exciting to learn about and see the growth in renewable and alternative energy. Today I’m working in reliability and how we help our customers improve operations by improving their ability to use data.
What inspires you most about being an engineer? I’m inspired by the fact that I am surrounded by bright and motivated individuals. In my current role, we have created a product, Plantweb Optics, that’s unique in the marketplace. We’re challenging the market with new applications and tools to solve our customers’ problems. I am excited by how committed our team and Emerson is to making new technologies that help our customers do things they’ve never done before.
Mariana Dionisio
Product Marketing Manager for Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) for DeltaV™
Austin, Texas
Time with Emerson: 3.5 years
Education: Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering degree from University of Oklahoma, Ph.D, Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Texas at Austin & Master of Business Administration from University of Texas at Austin
What do you do? I’m a product marketing manager for process automation HMI software for Emerson. I work with our customers and software engineers to develop software that is intuitive and easy to use and helps engineers that operate plants across the globe make safer, faster, and better decisions.
Why engineering? The night before my final exam in college physics, we had a review session with the professor. He told an anecdote to the class about a student that would ask questions during office hours about the practice exam; she not only wanted to know the correct answers, she wanted to know why they were the correct answers. He later told me that story was about me. From early childhood through to high school and college, I had a passion for problem solving and understanding how and why things work the way they do. I’m an analytical and curious person by nature, and these traits align well with a career in engineering. A career in engineering involves a lifetime of continuous learning and fulfilling challenges, with many possibilities across different fields including pharmaceuticals, environmental, food and beverage, automotive, and energy.
What’s the best part of being an engineer? The best part of being an engineer is applying my knowledge, skills, and analytical mindset to solve problems and have a positive impact. The next best part is I get to do all of that while collaborating with a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary team of other amazing engineers. It has been an extremely fulfilling career path for me with continuous learning, challenges, and successes.
What inspires you most about being an engineer? My father was a Chemical Engineer (also Ph.D), and we shared a curious, studious, and analytical nature. From a young age, we would study together and early on he encouraged me to consider this career path. Needless to say, I’m forever grateful that I did.
Alexandre Peixoto
Product Marketing Manager for DeltaV
Round Rock, Texas
Time with Emerson: 9 years
Education: Bachelor’s degree, Electrical Engineering (emphasis in automation and control) degree from the Federal University of Itajuba (UNIFEI) in Brazil. Currently in the Executive MBA program at Baylor University.
What do you do? I’m currently a product marketing manager and one of the subject-matter experts for cybersecurity and networking for the DeltaV control system. My responsibility as a product marketing manager is to make sure we come up with innovative solutions so that the DeltaV system can best help our customers safely and securely operate plants across the globe.
Why engineering? I grew up “breaking” things apart to learn how those things operated. I always found ways to fix things and I would gather more information about specific topics, which I had to do before Google or the Internet existed. I knew early that engineering was for me, no questions there, and a couple of internships exposed me to its diverse opportunities. As an engineer, I’ve worked in automation, production, maintenance, project execution, consulting, and business development. With engineering, I get to keep putting all my passion into new subject areas all the time.
What’s the best part of being an engineer? Engineering is curiosity and if you’re curious, you feel you are always young and you always have the energy and passion to learn more and every day is more exciting. It’s addictive in that way. In a more practical way, engineering has very broad applications and the logical, problem-solving mindset that engineers have helps in many different things beyond technical projects. As an engineer I feel comfortable dealing with finance, economy, statistics. Since I also enjoy communicating closely with people I get to use my technical expertise to work directly to help customers.
What inspires you most about being an engineer? My parents, my spouse, and my working colleagues, with their diversity of knowledge, inspire me daily. They help me build my personal and professional skills and expertise and inspire me to always be a better person. I truly believe that you don’t have to be the most famous person in the world or the highest rank in your organization to be and feel successful. There are many ways to be happy and complete wherever you are.
Sandra Schmall
Senior Project Manager
Chanhassen, MN
Time with Emerson: 5 Years
Education: Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Minnesota
What do you do? I manage schedules, tasks and finances as part of an engineering team to develop custom electronic controls for both internal and external customers.
Why engineering? Engineering allows me to work in an environment that relies on problem-solving skills and technical curiosity.
What’s the best part of being an engineer? The best thing about being an engineer is to be p part of the process that creates products to improve and enhance everyday living.
What inspires you most about being an engineer? As an intern, I worked for an engineering manager who was part of the first class of female engineers allowed to graduate from the University of Minnesota Chemical Engineering program during WWII.
Stephen Mozia
Business Development Leader for Plantweb
Round Rock, Texas
Time with Emerson: 4 years
Education: Bachelor of Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering degree from Cornell University
What do you do? I lead sales and business development strategies around Emerson’s new digital platforms, which help drive operational excellence through data integration and workflow management.
Why engineering? I’ve always had a keen interest in understanding how the world actually works. With engineering, you can see the world from a unique perspective. I also knew that engineering would enhance my problem-solving capabilities and foster my creativity.
What’s the best part of being an engineer? The best thing about engineering is not only being able to understand the sciences but also understanding how to apply that knowledge in the physical world.
What inspires you most about being an engineer? My father has always been my inspiration. He really showed me through hard work all things are possible. From an engineering perspective, it would have to be Neil deGrasse Tyson. I really admire people who can take difficult scientific topics and simplify them for people to understand.
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