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Adriana Santana-Thompson

Adriana Santana-Thompson

Capital One

VA USA

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Adriana's work combines: Business, Numbers, and Problem Solving

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Day In The Life

Process Manager

I work on improving processes in a team of linguists that serve a large company translating communications to the public

Skills & Education

Here's the path I took:

  • GED

  • Bachelor's Degree

    Orthotist/Prosthetist

    Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion

  • Graduate Degree

    Business/Managerial Economics

    Georgia Institute of Technology

Here's the path I recommend for someone who wants to be a Process Manager:

Bachelor's Degree: Accounting and Business/Management

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Defining Moments

How I responded to discouragement

  • THE NOISE

    Messages from Society in general:

    Your bachelors degree is from another country. You are a woman, prosthetics and orthotics requires strength. You only made it into the MBA program because of affirmative action. You've got that A because you are a girl.

  • How I responded:

    Just keep swimming, just keep showing up, don't stop!