About Kay
I am on the hunt for opportunities to change the manufacturing industry by empowering the people at the heart of it – the producers.
I move fast, able to quickly absorb information and turn it into solutions. Yet, the moments I find most satisfying are not when I understand a topic, but when I can help someone else to understand it. The memories that stay with me aren’t of how quickly I aced my math assignments, but of how I was able to explain that math to my classmates that believed they were “bad at math.”
My degree, my EIT, and my experience in fiberoptic manufacturing and modular housing production are tools to display my technical knowledge. Those tools cannot display the joy I felt the first time my production team called me about a problem – without being prompted to. My value as an engineer is meaningful; my value as an ‘empowerer’ is exponential.
It is my passion to enable the talents of production employees, assemblers, quality testers, materials pickers that spend their workday creating a product the company envisioned. The skill and knowledge on a manufacturing floor is an often overlooked, yet essential part of what a business stands for.
I am inspired by corporate-culture disruptors like Chris Rufer of Morning Star Tomatoes and Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, and my dad. Radical process improvement is not mutually exclusive to a successful business, as long as someone makes a conscious effort to pursue both.
Beyond my work, I value sustainability and zero-waste living. I am a strong feminist who is working to unlearn my implicit biases and support marginalized communities such as BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folks. I love sci-fi (especially Star Trek), comically large bowls of ice cream, and playing with my guinea pigs.
I am looking for a position with an employee-first organization that shares my values of sustainability, community, and responsible business practices.