{"id":1488,"date":"2009-01-02T14:54:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T14:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2014-03-19T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:38:07","slug":"alumnus-profile-emilio-vazquez-bba-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/01\/alumnus-profile-emilio-vazquez-bba-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Profile: Emilio Vazquez (BBA &#039;95)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alumnus Profile: Emilio Vazquez (BBA &#8217;95)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Senior  Vice President and Regional Branch Manager<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Coconut Grove  Bank<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For <strong>Emilio Vazquez<\/strong> (BBA \u201995), who began his banking career  as a teller and now serves as senior vice president and regional branch manager  for Coconut Grove Bank\u2019s five branches, job satisfaction focuses on people.<\/p>\n<p>[flv:http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/2009\/01\/videos\/emilio.flv 480 360]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s most rewarding is working with clients and employees, helping our  employees learn and reach their personal goals, and watching our customers grow  and prosper,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As he reflects on how his education in the College of Business Administration  has contributed to his success, he points to several factors including the  emphasis on projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did lots of team projects that helped us understand that we cannot  succeed if we are doing it alone,\u201d he said. \u201cThe lack of teamwork is the main  reason businesses fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, as someone who took seven years to earn his degree, attending evening  classes after working eight to ten hours, he is in an excellent position to give  the following advice:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t get tired. Continue to be enrolled. Be focused. At the end of the  road, you will be a cut above,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumnus Profile: Emilio Vazquez (BBA &#8217;95) Senior Vice President and Regional Branch Manager Coconut Grove Bank For Emilio Vazquez (BBA \u201995), who began his banking career as a teller and now serves as senior vice president and regional branch manager for Coconut Grove Bank\u2019s five branches, job satisfaction focuses on people. [flv:http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/2009\/01\/videos\/emilio.flv 480 360] \u201cWhat\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[52,285,769],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22871,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/22871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}