Her Story
About Faith
Faith Easter has been active in the fields of engineering and data analytics since 2018. She began her career with a focus on engineering but transitioned to data analytics, drawn to its investigative nature of uncovering insights from data. Her professional experience includes data analytics roles in supply chain and sales operations, and she currently serves on the after-sales operations team at Hyundai. Faith earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, followed by a master's degree in data analytics and an MBA in IT management. She maintains professional memberships in the Society of Women Engineers and Women in Data. She attributes her success to her faith and family, values being teachable and accountable, and advises pursuing advanced degrees after gaining work experience to align education with career interests.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Faith
01What do you attribute your success to?
It would be God and my family. Like, the way my parents raised me, they raised me to be an open-minded person, to feel free to kind of experiment with things, and have the ghost mindset, and not a fake mindset.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Don't get your master's until you've started working. It came in handy because if I had gotten a master's in engineering and then found out later that I wasn't trying to be as concentrated in engineering, I would have felt like I wasted my time, but being able to work and see what part of work I was actually enjoying, and then pursuing my Masters in that, I think that was really helpful.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Not to put any societal lips on themselves. Things like, you should not be the loud, problematic woman. You should just kind of be quiet and stay in your lane. I think that they should challenge those people's societal expectations, and basically, shine their light, wherever they see that they can make an impact, to go ahead and do that.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The opportunity is the challenge. Lately, everyone has kind of been freaking out about AI being out, and people AI can now do it cannot do data analysis, it cannot do graphs and all of that. But I think the opportunity that comes with that is that we can sharpen our AI skills and use it to our advantage, instead of looking at it as a disadvantage. We can kind of use it to get better and improve whatever it is we're going to be working on.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Being teachable and being an accountable person.
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