Sentences with phrase «many years working»

When the meal was through, they had learned a lot about him — his years working abroad, his days as a partner at an IT consulting firm, and his time on Wall Street.

Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.

After graduating from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business, she spent five years working in international operations management.

Seznec spent years working in banking in the Middle East and still travels to Saudi Arabia regularly.

-- Shannon O'Brien, ranked number one career coach and number one life coach in Boston on Yelp and founder of Whole U, a career and life strategy consultancy she started after seven years working and studying at Harvard and MIT

Under the Obama - era program undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as minors can apply for a renewable two - year work permit that would protect them from deportation.

Tim Harris, co-founder of 30 Under 30 honoree Swift Navigation, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008 and spent the next couple of years working as an industrial planner for OR Soft, a German software and consulting company.

We spent about two years working with a distillery to get it exactly right.

A more nagging problem is that «failure to launch» has led to more people in their prime earning years working minimum wage jobs.

He called his years working as the princess's personal chef the «happiest years at Kensington.»

Following her graduation in 2009, Toshack spent several years working at the Boston Consulting Group in Sydney before enrolling at Harvard Business School.

Bob Lachky, a marketing executive who spent 25 years working at competitor Anheuser - Busch gave this campaign some high praise: «It was arguably one of the greatest campaigns over the past 30 to 40 years.»

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

After 37 years working at Chevron, CEO and Chairman John Watson, who took over the helm in 2010, is hanging up his cleats and headed for retirement.

To reach full access within 10 years this worked out to 11 % per year.

(Tech startups often bring in workers on temporary three - year work permits with the intention of sponsoring them for permanent residence; each application usually requires an LMIA.)

He had spent years working in the industry.

Hoffman — who spent six years working at Hasbro — mulled over the name and his imagination started to run wild.

Essentially, the study concluded that for every additional year worked, the risk of dementia is reduced by 3.2 %.

If someone with 10 years work experience can do this in a tough investment period following this approach, a team with more experience and execution intelligence should be able to readily best them.

«Longevity and viability are key factors,» said Snyder, who previously spent five years working on Apple's security and privacy team.

He spent nearly a year working on a unique business idea - a reverse job board - that he felt could provide a valuable alternative to the array of options currently on the internet.

«It took me seven years working at a big company to build a clientele,» says Michael Nunziato, a now independent hair stylist in St. Charles, Illinois.

While completing his dissertation, Clark spent two years working for the central planning ministry of the then - socialist African nation, and the first of his four children was born there, with only a midwife present to support the birth.

After a year working with Thyssen in Miami, Otis called and asked for a meeting, Reich - Rohrwig says.

The group has spent the last year working with mobile industry stakeholders to adopt a kill switch as a default, opt - out solution for mobile devices.

The world's largest aerospace company spent its year working to reclaim the ground it lost during its centennial.

You've spent years working this job that hasn't been what you wanted for your life, but you smile because it's almost over.

After six years working with corporate and military clients, Fatigue Science is now preparing to tackle the consumer market.

The idea had its genesis just three years ago, upon Tetrick's return to the United States after spending seven years working for nonprofits and international organizations on education and food supply in sub-Saharan Africa.

That program, instituted under President Obama, makes certain undocumented people who came to the U.S. before the age of 16 low - level priorities for deportation while also granting them legal, three - year work permits.

Back then, DiCostanzo was enjoying new life as an entrepreneur after 25 years working for a manufacturer of automotive chemicals.

After years working in completely different industries, in 2012 Mary and Pat Scanlan and Mark Kleckner started producing vodka from heritage varieties of potatoes in the Woody Creek Valley outside Aspen, Colo..

Acton joined CNBC as a producer in 2015 after eight years working in investment banking and asset management for Goldman Sachs, PIMCO and Merrill Lynch between London, New York and Dubai.

«Basically, I just spent two and a half years working on utility - scale energy,» Griffith says with a sigh as he chews at a slice of fancy pizza.

Sankhla's six - year work visa is about to run out and his green card application has inexplicably stalled, even though he has gathered more than a thousand pages of documentation to verify his accomplishments.

If there's a billing dispute it can take months of phone calls and emails to get a case resolved, said Conley, who gained an insider's knowledge during years working for insurance companies.

They spent years working on Google Glass, their take on connected eyewear.

In that piece, Polk shares details about his first year working as a trader, which resulted in a $ 40,000 bonus.

For years I worked at different food concepts as a low - level employee, learning the ins and outs and trying to find one that matched the high standards I had acquired from my years at Erbert & Gerbert's.

Yet to qualify as a real estate professional, you must meet the IRS definition, which includes spending at least 750 hours a year working on that rental business.

The Economist extrapolates that even a 2 percent bump on a $ 45,000 a year salary can lead to as much as an extra $ 67,000 over the course of a 40 - year working career, if you were to set aside your language bump in savings and figure in compound interest.

His years working alongside Steve Jobs shaped his work as chief evangelist at Canva and co-founder of Alltop.

On Sunday, engineer Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing what she diplomatically dubbed her «strange» year working at Uber — a tenure that she says included, among other things, a) her manager propositioning her on her first day at work; and b) her repeated complaints about the incident ignored and dismissed by the company's human resources department, under the aegis of not sullying the guy's career for an «innocent mistake.»

The opposite is true at Maple, a New York restaurant startup that has spent nearly two years working to perfect food delivery.

When I started First Insight in 2007, I had been a retail merchant for 15 years and then spent several years working in retail technology.

He said his own tax rate last year worked out to just 17.4 % of his income, less than anyone else in his office.

I spent 10 years working at Walmart with the story of working to lower the cost of living.

Now, after spending most of the past year working under the expectation of the merger, Ainsworth has to come up with a Plan B.

The nine graduates spent the entire year working diligently to become better leaders.