Kraig is in the Leadership Development Program with healthcare-giant Aetna. In the midst of a three-year rotational program, Kraig is currently overseeing a virtualization project within Aetna.
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>> I would say being able to work at a level where there's a lot of visibility in the company. I know a lot of, you know, my friends and just regular college graduates that go into an entry level job, and they just work to work. Whereas I am making a career, you know, meeting upper level managers. I've met with the CEO of the company. And our company is like 33,000. And we just acquired another company. We are at 55,000 now. So to have a lot of visibility and meet and work with a lot of executive level managers or close to it is very invaluable because it's, again, it goes back to networking. So you know certain people. So it kind of goes off of being able to move your way up in the world. I guess currently because I'm a project manager, and I was a computer science major, business skills weren't exactly my strongest suit. I have people skills to kind of do what I'm doing now, but I just wasn't fully prepared for it. And so I guess being able to adjust coming from an engineering background to managing a team of engineers, you know, they are 30, 40, 50 years old, and they're taking order or, you know, listening to somebody who is 24. You're like, just being able to balance that out and, you know, use your technical skills and people skills to kind of do my job and do their job.
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