Business Associate Consultant, ZS Associates
BS, Bioengineering, 2014; MEng Bioengineering, 2015
Current job description:
I am a strategy consultant in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry.
What makes you good at your job?
My drive for striving to find solutions to complex problems and to help others keeps me motivated and helps me be successful in my role.
What skills did you learn during your time in the BioE program that make you a success in your career?
During the capstone program projects I have undertaken during my time at Berkeley, I have learned several skills that makes me successful at my job, including the technical approach to problem solving and deriving solutions, importance of sophisticated communication, and significance of collaboration and teamwork. I use these skills daily in my current line of work.
What keeps you enthusiastic about your job?
The thing that keeps me enthusiastic about my job is the feeling of helping others in a useful way. In consulting, you are faced with difficult problems for which you have to use creativity and technical skills to develop solutions for your clients. When I am able to deliver valuable and impactful work that our clients appreciate, I feel satisfied and motivated to do my best each day.