Michael Rodriguez

Background

About Michael Rodriguez

It's not easy to summarize your personal and professional life into text. Instead of a short essay, here's the bullet points that make me, me. 1) Born and raised on the Gulf of Mexico, but I've lived everywhere from Wisconsin to Germany. If I had to give a review, the best places to live are the places with great food and good music. 2) I'm a chemical engineer by training, but a communicator by heart. Technical knowledge only has value if the audience understands the message. I love being the bridge between understanding the technical and communicating the message. 3) The trait I am most proud of is my enthusiasm. New challenges are a rush, for me, and I think I spread that energy with me on teams I lead. I love nothing more than being given a complicated, tangled problem and being told "see what you can do". 4) Professionally, I'm trying to predict the future. Anticipating customer demand, market shifts, logistical challenges - these are some topics that excite me. I like to build strategies and help teams prepare and react to anything. Anticipate the possibilities and then respond to the realities is a mantra I like to live by.