Carrie Vennefron

In high school, I naturally excelled in many of my classes, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to be. I liked chemistry the most out of all my classes, so I decided to pursue a degree from the University of Cincinnati in Chemical Engineering. My first few years were tough as I acclimated to college life. 

I landed an internship at the world's largest chemical manufacturer: BASF. I worked at their Cincinnati site for about 4 months as a Process Laboratory and Quality Control Laboratory technician, then I worked as an Esters Department engineer for about 3 months. Next, I transitioned to their Louisville site for 8 months as a Technical Engineering Services & Manufacturing Process engineer. Finally, I transitioned back to the Cincinnati site for a 3 month rotation in the Business & Marketing Department.

In between my rotations with BASF, I would work as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Cincinnati in the Department of Engineering Education. I would grade, mentor, and assist in teaching freshman engineering students the basics of MATLAB, LabView, VBA, and Python. For my contributions, I was recognized with an official award for "Top Facilitator". 

I obtained my Bachelor's of Science in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Chemistry and a Pre-Medicine certificate in 2020. A month before my graduation, I started an internship with Segue Technologies, Inc. 

While working at Segue, I became a Pega Certified System Architect, which allowed me to understand the Pega language well enough to create an application. Hearkening back to my chemical engineering experience, the application I created was a tool to guide and assist engineers in creating Process Hazard Analyses.