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Kylee Sigmon
By Josie Walker

     Kylee Sigmon, a 2019 AECT alum, has recently started her career at Tyson Foods. Sigmon’s mother and father both are employed at Tyson; therefore, it only seemed fitting she carry on the tradition. Sigmon’s official title is Associate Manager BU Innovation-National Accounts & Convenience-Stores.

     “As a project manager for Poultry Innovation for National Accounts (Burger King, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, etc.) and LC Convenience Stores (Casey’s, 7-Eleven, etc.), my job is twofold. My team works reactively daily to respond to customer driven requests,” said Sigmon.

     Sigmon takes the product from an idea to reality. Her team helps guide the cross functional teams through development until the product is ready to be commercialized and scaled up for manufacturing. Though Sigmon is relatively young to be in such a position at Tyson, she handles her responsibilities well.

     “I am constantly working with an array of people that range anywhere from 5-25 years older than me. Luckily, this has never been a problem. I am not naive to the fact that the majority of people within the company have much more experience than I do,” said Sigmon.

     Sigmon takes every opportunity she can to learn from others. She considers it an honor to be in contact with older people all day, because she is able to learn from their personal experiences. However, sometimes she feels intimidated to speak up and share her opinion whenever she feels it is relevant, she said.

     “My favorite part of my job is that no day is like another. One day I will be really focused on project management and another day I will be busy scanning our research/insights databases to pull data to support a new product concept,” said Sigmon.

     Being able choose different tasks each day keeps her alert. Sigmon is always looking for improvements to be made, which is what makes her job so unique.

     “The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to let my pride go and ask questions whenever I am uncertain. I would rather ask a million questions and execute a task properly than assume that I will figure it out and then have to rework the task to correct errors,” said Sigmon.

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