{"id":21800,"date":"2018-07-25T16:39:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=21800"},"modified":"2019-06-18T19:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T23:29:34","slug":"military-samsung-veterans-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/military-samsung-veterans-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Military to Samsung: Veterans in the Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung<\/strong> knows that few experiences are as challenging as those faced by America\u2019s veterans. Responsibilities can range from saving people\u2019s lives to managing operations worth hundreds of millions of dollars in fast-paced, high-pressure environments. Oftentimes transitioning into civilian life presents challenges of its own, but Samsung recognizes that many of the skills that veterans develop make them valuable, capable employees. This summer, Samsung welcomed three veterans as interns; Joe Drury (US Air Force \u201908 \u2013 \u201816), Louie Terrazas (US Navy \u201812-\u201816), and James Thomas (US Navy \u201910 \u2013 \u201817). We sat down with them to learn more about their background and why they feel at home at Samsung.<\/p>\n

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Louie Terrazas served in the U.S. Navy from 2012 to 2016. His internship is with Samsung Product Marketing.<\/p><\/div>\n

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While day-to-day life in the military and at a business like Samsung is drastically different, Thomas found his role working with the Consumer Insights team intersected with his military work as an Intelligence Officer. \u201cThe Consumer Insights role I applied to was really interesting because we do research across all product lines,\u201d explained Thomas<\/strong>. \u201cThe analytical skillset is really similar to what I did in the military, where I made recommendations for operational military commanders based on intelligence research I did\u201d.
\nHaving been in Linguistic Intelligence Operations for the Special Forces and now in Product Management for monitors, Drury agreed with Thomas\u2019s sentiment. \u201cIn the military intelligence role, I was dealing with large amounts of data. I had to paint a picture of what was happening with all this data,\u201d\u00a0Drury said<\/strong>. \u201cAt Samsung, I\u2019m making decisions and writing reports on the competitive landscape, consumer desires, and consumer decisions. Using quantitative and qualitative analytics to figure out what people are thinking is analogous to what I was doing in military intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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James Thomas served in the U.S. Navy from 2010 to 2017. His internship is with Samsung Consumer Insights.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Being in the military also provided opportunities for leadership development and growth \u2013 experience that all three veterans agreed carries over at Samsung. Although Terrazas<\/strong> worked as a police officer in the Navy, he found that his second role in project management, where he was often tasked with doing maintenance on electrical equipment, helps him at Samsung. \u201cWe\u2019re kind of left to do our own work. I have to detail things to how I see fit and make my own plans and I learned that in the military. In the Navy they want you to be a self-starter and it\u2019s perfect because in my role doing product marketing for audio at Samsung, I think it\u2019s the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a very similar work ethic in the military and at Samsung in terms of being motivated to do your job and to advance the organization,\u201d Thomas added<\/strong>. In the military, he said, \u201cpeople\u2019s lives can actually be on the line, so you really want to succeed. I think that drive for success also exists at Samsung.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joe Drury served in the U.S. Air Force from 2008 to 2016. His internship is with Samsung’s Product Marketing, Memory Division.<\/p><\/div>\n

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When asked if their military experience impacted their decision to intern at Samsung, all three veterans agreed their interest in tech and business was their biggest motivation for choosing to work at the company. However, Drury also credits Samsung\u2019s commitments to Korean War Veteran\u2019s family members as a major selling point in leading him to the company. \u201cI got the opportunity in Korea to see that there was a real respect that Koreans have for Americans,\u201d Drury elaborated<\/strong>. \u201cI got to see the memorial that Koreans put up near the Korean Demilitarized Zone for all the Americans that lost their lives there. It was very cool for me to work for a company that values American veterans in particular, especially for a company which originated outside of America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samsung knows that few experiences are as challenging as those faced by America\u2019s veterans. Responsibilities can range from saving people\u2019s lives to managing operations worth hundreds of millions of dollars in fast-paced, high-pressure environments. Oftentimes transitioning into civilian life presents challenges of its own, but Samsung recognizes that many of the skills that veterans develop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29719,17571],"tags":[889,8769,249],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-21800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","category-corporate-workforce","tag-internship","tag-samsungsalutes","tag-veterans"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/14122322\/SamsungVeteranInterns.jpeg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/14122322\/SamsungVeteranInterns.jpeg","primary_category":{"term_id":29719,"name":"Corporate","slug":"corporate","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29719,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1029,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/category\/corporate\/","term_path":"corporate"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21800"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=21800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}