FMC has provided me with a lot of opportunities over the course of my career. I started with the company in 1980 in Iowa and transferred to Houston a year later to work as a drafter and designer in research and development. For the next eight years, I went to night school to earn my Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, which was paid for by FMC. But even before I finished school, I started functioning in an engineering role. Just after I graduated, I moved to Brazil as a technical liaison with our facility in Rio de Janeiro, and I worked in various engineering management roles before assuming my current job as manager of Engineering and Technology. Within the engineering group at FMC, there are so many paths you can take—R&D, product applications, project engineering and engineering management, and over the course of my career, I’ve had the opportunity to do all those things.