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After graduating from IU, I decided to stay in Berlin. My life took two paths: passion and career. On the passionate side, I got involved with Space2Grow, an NGO founded by my friend that provides education to Women of Colour who have recently arrived in Germany and helps them settle in their new home. On the career side, I secured a position as a Senior Architect at PMS AG. We work on large public renovation projects, for example the Theater an der Parkaue in Berlin and the Velodrom in Regensburg. In both my honorary position and my career, the skills and competencies I learned during my MBA studies at IU have made a big difference in many ways. These include working in teams, managing projects, planning strategies, working with stakeholders and much more. My goal is to move up to a leadership position where I can use my architecture assets while focusing more on management.

Looking back on my studies, I can say: I had a great time at IU. I was able to get to know many people from different regions, with whom I am still in good contact today. However, the best thing about studying at the IU was the practical orientation, which prepared me very well for professional life. Thanks to the IU's close contacts in the business world, I was able to apply a lot of what I had learned directly. The good knowledge of English and the appropriate skills were ideal preparation for working in an international environment. Studying at the IU is the first step towards this.  

I got the job at Lohmann & Rauscher while I was still a student - partly because of the distance learning programme, and partly because of my many years of professional experience as an operating theatre nurse. When I started there, I was immersed in a completely new and different environment. My tasks include the implementation of various processes in the product life cycle, the qualification of new raw materials and the evaluation and improvement of our product portfolio. We work on these tasks in an interdisciplinary way with very different teams.  

In my job as Global Portfolio Manager, I can perfectly combine the two components of many years of hospital experience and newly learned specialist knowledge from my studies. Since I have used many medical products myself, I know the customer side very well. What also helps me, of course, is the specialist knowledge from my studies, but especially the business management knowledge, such as marketing, project management and business administrati

During my dual studies, I first gained all kinds of experience in the management of small to medium-sized properties - first as an assistant, later as a property supervisor. I got to know accounting, facility management, property supervision and much more. Then I gained insights into business management, including personnel management and development, process optimisation and controlling. Here, my theoretical knowledge from my studies helped me a lot. Finally, in addition to my property management activities, I took over the management of RAU Facility Management GmbH as a managing partner. In mid-2018, we founded our own agency together with an experienced real estate agent: RAU Immobilienagentur GmbH. Here, I am now the managing director for the area of administration and responsible for building up the start-up. In my day-to-day work, I work in all three companies: In property management, in facility management and in the real estate agency.