151 Millennium - Eighteenth Edition ENERGY, ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING professional success. By 1999, Ms. Graham had become a manufacturing supervisor at Pfizer Inc. She joined Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories in 2008 as a senior manufacturing supervisor before moving into positions as a maintenance supervisor and interim maintenance manager at Coca-Cola Refreshments in 2010. The Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation welcomed Ms. Graham as an engineer in 2011, and she excelled within the company for the following 10 years. Rising to roles as a quality assurance manager in 2012, senior quality project manager in 2014, and facilities engineering manager in 2016, she set herself apart from her peers as a passionate and hard-working employee. Since 2023, she has worked as the associate director of facilities planning and management at Wayne State University, and she is currently pursuing an MBA at the institution. Ms. Graham considers her most remarkable achievement to be her appointment as the first African American woman maintenance supervisor at a plant in Richmond, Virginia, at the onset of her career. This achievement paved the way for two other female employees, and their employment shifted the plant culture, as more women assumed prominent roles beginning in the late 1980s. In addition to completing her master’s degree, Ms. Graham plans to develop her own compliance writing training enterprise for corporations in the coming years. After she retires, she intends to launch her company, where she will once again bring her best self to the forefront and perform at the highest level. B ridget M. Graham has broken boundaries and paved new paths to success in the field of engineering. After receiving a BS in mechanical engineering technology from Temple University in 1988, she began her career as a maintenance supervisor for Philip Morris, USA, a role that became the springboard for her BRIDGET M. GRAHAM ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT Wayne State University Detroit, MI
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