One Powerful Operations Officer, Debora Shoquist Is Very Cool!
Running a business is, joke intended, a full-time job. The bigger the business, the more complicated it is to maintain and grow the business. Big companies are not the place for micromanagers; all of the great executives have a staff that they depend upon to deal with specialized divisions of their company. Arguably one of the most important roles a CEO can fill is that of an Operations Officer. Executives in charge of Operations are the professionals who ensure that the supply chain is uninterrupted, the facilities are fully functional and products in production are shipping according to schedule. For the computer memory manufacturer Nvidia, the Executive Vice President of Operations is Debora Shoquist.
Debora Shoquist is one of many executives at Nvidia who has a strong knowledge of both engineering principles and biology, which are essential skill sets when working at a company involved in data storage. But at Nvidia, Shoquist has developed her management talents as opposed to working in development. When Debora Shoquist joined Nvidia in 2007, it was actually a lateral move for her; she served as Senior Vice President of Operations at JDS Uniphase.
That Deborah Shoquist became intimately knowledgeable in the business processes of manufacturing that make for an exceptional Vice President of Operations is a bit of a surprise when one considers her background. Shoquist attended Santa Clara University where she earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Biology. She had an almost complete change of career ambitions when she went to Kansas State University. At KSU, Deborah Shoquist studied electrical engineering and graduated with a B.S. in that! Her Electrical Engineering degree guided Deborah Shoquist to Hewlett-Packard where she worked first as an engineer and later as a manager.
After ten years with HP, Deborah Shoquist found she was more interested in the management aspects of big business as opposed to the manufacturing end. Shoquist left Hewlett-Packard for the opportunity to get more management experience at Quantum. Over the course of eleven years, Shoquist ascended the management ladder to become the president of the Personal Computer Hard Disk Drive Division of the company. That level of experience made her an attractive hire to Coherent, who hired her as the vice president and general manager of their entire Electro-Optics division. Continuing to gain experience in the way the various parts of a business interacted, Deborah Shoquist made the leap to Senior Vice President of Operations at JDS Uniphase. It was there that she excelled enough to appear on Nvidia’s radar.
Since joining Nvidia as their Executive Vice President of Operations, Deborah Shoquist has continued the company’s tradition of delivering innovative new technologies to the market at promised and promoted times. With her wide range of experience and success in meeting the operations needs of Nvidia, Deborah Shoquist will, no doubt, be in demand from even bigger companies!
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