9/3/2019 Graduate Spotlight: Jeffrey DavisJeffrey Davis Class of 2013 - STEM Academy Northwest High School Currently, I am a Project Coordinator for Jacobs Engineering Group in Fort Worth Texas. By the end of this year I'll be working as a Deputy Project Manager and obtaining my Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification. Soon, I'll be working on 4 projects with AMTRAK, and I'll be working between Ft. Worth and Denver. My "journey" rarely goes according to plan but I think I'm right where I need to be for now. I studied Mechanical and Energy Engineering at UNT for 3 semesters... it didn't work out. I tried to transfer to UTA to study architecture, but it didn't work out. I went back to UNT and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies focusing on Engineering, Management, and Technical Communication in 2016. During my second semester of college I was looking for internships. I worked for a company that designed and manufactured airplane parts for a day; it didn't work out. I signed up for UNT's SAE program and went to a couple meetings. That didn't work out, either. Finally got an internship as an Estimator for a construction company. When I finished my internship as an Estimator, I was offered a full-time position as a Lead Estimator. After 3 months as a Lead Estimator I was recruited by a startup construction company as an Assistant Project Manager and Estimator while the company transitioned from north Texas to Houston. After the transition, I left to finish school and at that point I was back at UNT for Integrated Studies. However, I realized school wasn't for me and I needed to get out and work. I had about 60-70 hours left of schooling so I averaged 20 hours or so during my spring, summer, and fall semesters and was finished with my college career in 3 years. It took an enduring amount of time from graduating to getting a job at Jacobs. I worked several odd hourly jobs until I was hired as an Assistant Project Manager at the construction company where I started my internship as an Estimator. With nearly every project I encountered in STEM I somehow got squeezed into a managerial role. It was my junior year in high school, with the first ever rocket project, when I realized project management wasn't just a roll I got suckered into, but a calling. Working directly with multiple teams and people to develop a rickety rocket refined what I wanted to do moving forward after high school. Just working on team projects all throughout high school leveraged me above others in college because I already had 4 years of team project experience. It made these monstrous semester projects easy to a degree and manageable. Want to read about more CTE graduates? Click here!
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