Today on the podcast we have Vicki Knott, tune in to learn how this young 30 year old literally automates the control room! She went from working at a major corporation having her ideas shut down to starting her own company CruxOCM.
Vicki originally wanted to work in forestry, after living in a logging camp she decided this wasn’t the path for her. She ended up switching her major to engineering, she picked chemical engineering because of her summer jobs in pulp and paper. At 19 she wrote a published paper on how to automate the pulp and paper mill to be more efficient. Wait until you hear her talking about the algorithms she put together… at 19!
Vicki took on a role at one of the biggest oil and gas pipeline companies in the world. As a junior engineer she purchased her managers to let her work in the operations room. A position many junior engineers would not be able to do. She talks about her motivation behind wanting to work in the role and how it helped develop her skill set.
Vicki challenged the company on automation and new processes. She had ideas to go beyond excel sheets and hands off processes that can be done from any location. No one wanted to hear her ideas, they would rather keep the same processes they have adapted over the years. After being shut down she decided her idea on automating the control room could become a stand alone company. She took the risk, left a comfortable job with a big career ahead of her, to go head first into CruxOCM. Vicki talks about what success means to you and the changes you can make in your environment if you are not comfortable with where you are, or not happy in your position. She tells how you have to overcome the fear and follow your true passion.
She describes the struggle and why she hired a career coach early on. It's about knowing yourself and understanding your personality traits. She talks about going two years door to door with no sales and putting everything on a credit card. It was hard to get buy-in from people who weren’t willing to change their process. Vicki tells how she learned to run a business from not even understanding how to raise capital. Once she started receiving funding and buy in her path began to change. If you are looking for inspiration, this is the podcast for you.
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