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A brewery made me an engineer. It was at my first job as a Lab Assistant at a local brewery when my Lab Manager came up to me and said, “You should be an engineer”. Up until that point, my heart had been set on going to medical school. Looking at her puzzled, she said “You’re always on the production floor talking to the guys, trying to figure out why things are breaking down. You should think of becoming an engineer.” That was it! I applied and got accepted into the Chemical Engineering Program at Texas Tech University, with minors in Bioengineering and Math. While at Tech, I completed a co-op program with Dow Chemical, where I truly understood what Chemical Engineers do. I realized I was good at it - solving problems. I also learned that being able to communicate the best solution to a problem, was sometimes just as important as coming up with the solution in the first place. After graduating from Texas Tech, I started my career as a Chemical Engineer in the oil and gas industry. I loved what I did, but I never forgot about my passion for Biology. I decided to return to school to earn my Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. Once I completed my Master’s degree, I worked as a Consultant Engineer for many large companies in the pharmaceutical and food & beverage industries, including Alcon, Novartis, Unilever, PepsiCo and even, you guessed it, a brewery. As luck would have it, I led the process engineering design, equipment selection and procurement of the Fermentation Cellar Expansion Project at the Spoetzl Brewery. This expansion allowed Shiner Bock beer to reach its targeted national distribution volumes. I returned to the chemicals industry for a few more years, working for Dupont and BASF, while relocating across the country. (Yes, you can do it all with a Chemical Engineering degree!) In 2020, I transitioned to the pharmaceutical industry at GSK. The problems I solved directly impacted human lives. I was part of a team bringing life-saving respiratory drugs to the market in the middle of the pandemic. I then decided to step out on my own as a small business owner offering technical writing services at WordsbySimone.com. I leverage my expertise as an engineer with my passion for writing to translate the most complex content into something that's easily understood. Now, I'm focused on scaling QuneUp™ - an intuitive asset management software that reduces equipment downtime and boosts productivity. With QuneUp™, you're able to access all your critical equipment data with a snap. Equipment. Data. Digitalized. QuneUp.com