As a marketing major at the School of Business, Megan Gold learned the value of communicating messages effectively. That’s something she applies every day in her job at Lockheed Martin as a software engineer. Megan doesn’t have a science background, but she is effective at explaining complex topics to other audiences who lack a technical focus. She credits her time at RMU with preparing her for this role, including an internship at the company that eventually hired her.

ANDREW MILLER loves a big game, and he came to RMU to pursue his dream of being a sports broadcaster. However, once he started taking classes, he discovered other opportunities to explore that led him in directions he wouldn’t have dreamed of in high school.

After retiring as a sergeant in the Marines after four combat deployments in Afghanistan, MYRON ELLIS was ready to start thinking about a career in either labor relations or human resources. His wife was from Pittsburgh, so that was where they decided to take the next step. After speaking to a number of universities in the area, Myron decided RMU was the best place to build on the skills he had already learned.

For Katie Marseilles, challenging projects are all in a day’s work in her role as an investment coordination and analysis specialist at Covestro in Leverkusen, Germany. She holds a highly strategic role that supports the company’s European and North American polycarbonate manufacturing sites, coordinating projects, ensuring regulatory compliance, and developing business cases for large projects with capital investment over 2 million euros.

He knew he wanted to study business, but Jordan Frazier wanted to keep his options open. So Jordan wound up triple-majoring at RMU in accounting, finance, and economics. And quadruple-interning — twice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, once at KPMG, and once at a local healthcare technology startup, where he worked directly under the CFO helping to prepare for their first real audit.