Her Story
About Lumina
Lumina Mario serves as Functional Manager and Senior Consultant at MTX, where she manages project delivery for clients, oversees a team of 23 with seven direct reports, and focuses on scalable solution architecture and AI integration in Salesforce implementations. With more than seven years in the consulting field, including four years in her current role, she began her career in India at Value Momentum in InsureTech before relocating to the United States for expanded responsibilities at MTX headquarters in Frisco, Texas. She earned a Bachelor's in Technology in Electronics and Communication from Gitam University and a Master's in Business Analytics from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, and she maintains certifications as a Salesforce Admin, in Salesforce Business Analysis, and in Business Architecture. Lumina attributes her professional success to self-learning, consistently pushing beyond her comfort zone to understand team contributions, maintaining quality, and receiving support from colleagues, mentors such as Shantan and Tammy Dobson, and her family. She advises young women entering the field to build confidence through domain knowledge and real-time experience, enabling them to add value and lead in decision-making rooms despite challenges from higher-level stakeholders who may overlook operational realities.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Lumina
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to pushing through self-learning, trying to go beyond my comfort level, not just restricting myself to what I was told but trying to understand what every team member does. Consistency with what I am expected to do, working through it and making sure the quality of the work is good. Support from colleagues, mentors, and my family who supported me through extended hours.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
For young women, confidence is what you need. As long as you know your domain, as long as you've learned it the right way and are willing to learn going forward to expand your role. You don't need to restrict or limit yourself. In every room, you will find people trying to overpower you with their decisions, but with your real-time experience and how passionate you are about your work, you will always add real value. That's where you start making room for yourself in rooms and start leading them.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The biggest challenge I usually face is with people that are in higher positions having their say when they don't know the base reality, and just because they have positions they try to put up something. People try to overshadow, but confidence and knowing my stuff helps me become a dominant figure in these rooms in decision making. It's all about making sure relationships are not harmed but at the end of the day reality is respected and is considered.
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