Manufacturing Industry
XLR8-ing.(XLR8 consulting firm)
IIE Solutions, April, 2000
When Eve Strella quit her corporate job two years ago to join her former boss in founding their own consulting firm -- The XLR8 Team -- it wasn't the first time she'd taken a leap. After all, she's a former champion equestrian. And industrial engineering wasn't her first career.
Before she became an IE, Strella worked for 11 years as a certified expanded duties dental assistant. "I just naturally rearranged the offices to suit my needs from a time-and-motion standpoint," she remembers. Her late husband, David Strella, was an industrial engineer with Eastman Kodak. "I would come home and tell him about this, and David kept saying over the years, 'You really need to think about industrial engineering.'" When she was ready for a change, Strella enrolled in IE...
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