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Trade Compliance Manager, Hermetic Motor Division, Emerson
No one has to tell Marlene Marengo that "the world is flat." As a senior materials manager for Yobel, a major logistics firm in Lima, Peru, she oversaw export operations and international vendors in a dozen countries for her firm and a sister company based in Miami.
After nearly 10 years of growing responsibilities, Marlene believed she had reached a plateau. An industrial engineer by training (and recipient of the highest honor for students in her own country), she realized that she needed the battery of skills best provided by an MBA program at a prestigious American university.
She won the Lanier Scholarship from Owen, where she concentrated on Finance and Operations Management while applying her accumulated knowledge to real-world projects (such as a feasibility study that she conducted for Nissan North America and that she enhanced by using geographic information systems).
Meanwhile, Marlene made Owen a winner in more ways than one. In 2006, she was part of a team that took first place the International Operations Case Competition at Carnegie Mellon. And in 2007, she completed an internship at Emerson, which then hired her full-time upon her graduation in 2008.
Marlene Marengo
Vanderbilt MBA 2008Trade Compliance Manager, Hermetic Motor Division, Emerson
Marlene Goes Global
Peruvian Engineer Helped Team Win International Case CompetitionNo one has to tell Marlene Marengo that "the world is flat." As a senior materials manager for Yobel, a major logistics firm in Lima, Peru, she oversaw export operations and international vendors in a dozen countries for her firm and a sister company based in Miami.
After nearly 10 years of growing responsibilities, Marlene believed she had reached a plateau. An industrial engineer by training (and recipient of the highest honor for students in her own country), she realized that she needed the battery of skills best provided by an MBA program at a prestigious American university.
She won the Lanier Scholarship from Owen, where she concentrated on Finance and Operations Management while applying her accumulated knowledge to real-world projects (such as a feasibility study that she conducted for Nissan North America and that she enhanced by using geographic information systems).
Meanwhile, Marlene made Owen a winner in more ways than one. In 2006, she was part of a team that took first place the International Operations Case Competition at Carnegie Mellon. And in 2007, she completed an internship at Emerson, which then hired her full-time upon her graduation in 2008.
