{"id":234,"date":"2009-02-01T14:14:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T18:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=234"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:01:10","slug":"vivian-padron-bba-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/02\/vivian-padron-bba-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Profile: Vivian Padron (BBA \u201903)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alumna Profile: Vivian Padron<\/strong> <strong>(BBA  \u201903)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Marketing Manager, Comcast Sports Southeast  (CSS)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>MBA Candidate, Downtown Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As marketing manager for Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS),<strong> <\/strong>one  of Comcast\u2019s ten regional sports networks, <strong>Vivian Padron<\/strong> (BBA  \u201903) finds herself in a male-dominated field. Not only that: she\u2019s the sole  marketing contact in South Florida, and took the job fresh out of college,  sometimes working with men who had been in the cable and broadcasting industries  for as long as she\u2019s been alive. But she\u2019s relished the challenge, and credits  her experiences at Florida International University with helping her meet  it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe marketing major taught me how to market a business or industry, or  products and services,\u201d she said. \u201cIt also taught me how to market myself. I  learned how to network better, communicate better, and how to work around  different obstacles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now enrolled in the Downtown MBA, which she appreciates because of the  convenience and the fact that staff members handle logistics thereby saving her  valuable time, she expresses the confidence that she feels others will gain from  the college\u2019s programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe undergraduate and graduate schools should give you the confidence to be  the best at what you want to do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>[flv:http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/2009\/02\/videos\/padron.flv 500 334] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna Profile: Vivian Padron (BBA \u201903) Marketing Manager, Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS) MBA Candidate, Downtown Program As marketing manager for Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS), one of Comcast\u2019s ten regional sports networks, Vivian Padron (BBA \u201903) finds herself in a male-dominated field. Not only that: she\u2019s the sole marketing contact in South Florida, and took the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"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":[2648],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24094,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/24094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}