Chris Mankle
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MIS, University of Texas at Austin 1993
MBA, University of Notre Dame 2006
What work brought you to your job today?
Being a consummate project and general management executive with 20+ years of experience developing solutions to drive growth and profitability in challenging and competitive markets. Strong leadership, motivation, communication, negotiation, creative and analytical skills. Decisive, solutions-focused and results-oriented.What do you do in your current job?
*Drive and deliver innovation. *Identify and drive new business opportunities.* Develop and execute a technical strategy and recommend the best technologies. *Create a vision that promotes innovative technologies and helps with the application of those technologies.What do you value from your MIS education?
It will provide you with the tools to perform market research, drive transformational strategy into market-leading products and solutions, and create growth for your company. How do I know this? UT did it for me.What is your advice for current students?
Read and read some more. Make sure you get inputs from various sources. Also, I can not stress this enough, have a mentor, someone who will give you sound advise and is looking out for what is best for you even when you do not want to hear it.