Trailblazer Instructor Andrea Creeks

Key Takeaways

I like to look at it like we're not professors. We are professionals teaching the next generation of professionals. I honestly feel very blessed working at TSDC. I felt the need to transition out of industry. I still wanted to do what I did but in a different capacity. All of my mentors in industry, they play a role in helping me be who I am today. they instilled in me the things that they had learned over the years. So, they kind of paid it forward to help me get to where I am. At the end of the day, I do feel that I I've played a successful role in industry um in all of my roles from the oil and gas industry to the US Army Corps of Engineers, acquiring 20 years of experience. Now here in Texas at TSTC imparting my knowledge and the things that I've learned through industry, I now see myself as a mentor with our students and I can share all the things that I did right and I can also share the things that I did wrong. And you can only get that through experience. Joy, success, and opportunity are the three things that come to my mind for TSTC graduations. It's like I'm graduating with them every time they go across the stage. They made it from beginning to end. They didn't quit and they reached their goal. I can only imagine what the students that graduate, what they're going to go on to do. I know that they're going to make us very proud. My name is Andrea Creeks and I am TSTC.