Vivian
Business Information Specialist Associate Consultant, Princeton Office
Education
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
B.S.E. in Industrial & Operations Engineering, 2001
Activities at Michigan: Michigan Engineering Consulting Club, Chinese Christian Fellowship Church, Alpha Pi Mu, Chinese Student E-Magazine (a magazine which my friends and I founded), studied abroad in Hong Kong
Memories of Michigan: Spending many late nights studying and hanging out with friends; free pizza as dinner during the recruiting season; grocery shopping at Meijer 3 am in the morning; volunteering in the security squad during the Naked Mile (the Michigan tradition for seniors to run naked for a mile the day before the final exam week)
Hometown
East Hanover, NJ
ZS Career Path
Business Information Specialist, 2004
Business Information Specialist Associate Consultant, 2006
On the work
"I am currently on a call planning project for a major pharmaceutical client. My team creates a quarterly plan for our client's sales force, which provides information to direct their sales representative to target to the right physicians. Essentially, my project role is to administer the process to generate the call plan reports. One time our client had re-structured their sales force, and I was responsible for modifying the input data into the new and usable format in order to start the call plan process. By the time I finished writing and compiled the program that modified the input data, it was such a great feeling of achievement. It was hard work, but it felt good afterward."
On ZS values
Get It Right: "One of the most important lessons that I learned when I first started working at ZS is that we should always deliver quality work to our clients. I remember the time after our call plan reports were created, the entire team, including the project manager, would spent days to double check and triple check the reports, to make sure the correct information and format were printed. If we found just one minor mistake, we would rework the entire batch of reports immediately. Sometimes it may be repetitive, but it is all very worthwhile because our quality work directly impacts our client's business."
On life outside work
"I like to go to the gym (or at least I try to) for kickboxing, step aerobic and spinning classes. In the spring/fall, I like to go hiking in nearby parks like Bear Mountain and Cat Skill Mountain. I am also a member of the ZS volleyball team that plays against other companies in Princeton area during the summer."
On the Princeton office
"There are a lot of things to do around the Princeton area, like shopping at the nearby shopping malls and dinning in an array of restaurants in the area. You can conveniently take the train from Princeton straight to the heart of New York City, any time you want. In the summer, you can head down the Jersey shore to relax from the work week. In the winter, you can go west to the Poconos in Pennsylvania for some skiing action."