"One thing influenced my career goal was that I've seen strong leadership successfully changed the culture of the plant through PEX. It makes me turned to managerial career path that I can add more value and influence more people." 

My career at Corning started back to ten years ago. I was a forming process engineer. At that time, my goal was to be the best in class process engineer. After two years, fiber plant expansion brought me into the project team. My role was extended to coordination between engineering and operation. That is the first time I realized I can do more on leadership. Another thing influenced my career goal was that I've seen strong leadership successfully changed the culture of the plant through PEX. It makes me turned to managerial career path that I can add more value and influence more people.

I grew a lot through leading engineering team, and benefited tremendously from senior leaders by their coaching. My team continuously delivered performance and hit record, which encouraged me greatly that I believe can do even better on leadership. I became supervisor and later on engineering manager. After three years, more opportunities were open to me during that time, driven by high business growth in China. There was a chance of leading prototyping engineering for our research and new business development. I did have some hesitation about my new role. Could I continue to add value? Could I work well with scientists, commercial people and customers? But I knew that I was going to grow more though it's a big challenge for my comfortable zone. Fortunately, I have met great leaders and scientists here, and with their strong support, we have successfully set up the prototyping center.

As Corning's continuous investment in China, there are even more opportunities now and in future. But along with the economy growth out of Tier 1 cities, the new opportunities emerge in Tier 2 cities. Which means talents should be ready to be a nation-wide citizen. And the new journey of my career adventure is going to be started.