NSBE - Winter 2010/2011 - 24

Alysia Green of Chevron enjoying Family and career success
By Phaedra Brotherton
Over the course of her career, Green has developed an interest and skills in leadership and people management and has advanced into supervisory and business management positions. She’s also a leader in the company’s diversity efforts, as a member of Chevron’s Black Employee Network, as the management representative for Chevron’s Women’s Network and as Chevron’s IT team leader for recruitment at NSBE. Although she has had a full and varied career at Chevron, enjoying the personal side of her life has been equally important, says Green, who is married and has an 11-year-old daughter. Those values were put to the test when the opportunity for a plum international assignment for Chevron’s eFoundation project in Germany came up about a year and a half after her daughter was born. The position would require her to leave her baby daughter behind for more than a year. “When it first came up, I said, ‘I really want to do this, but I want “From a company standpoint, I got all the support I needed. to take her with me,’ ” says Green. In addition, her husband had I didn’t have to choose between my career and being a just started a new position and good mom.” couldn’t travel with her. Fortunately, with Chevron’s support, Green worked out a unique solution. The company agreed to cover the expense that required that type of background, as well.” of flying several family members to Germany — For the past 19 years, Green has had ample opincluding her mother-in-law, her parents and her portunity to use her diverse background in a variety daughter’s godmother — at various times to watch of information technology and business managethe baby while Mom was at work. The baby was ment positions with Chevron Corporation. Green also able to spend part of the time with her father, is now the business development and planning back in the States. manager for Chevron’s Gulf of Mexico business unit. “From a company standpoint, I got all the supShe is responsible for strategic planning, developport I needed,” says Green. “I didn’t have to choose ing short-term and long-term business plans and between my career and being a good mom.” managing and monitoring the unit’s performance. As she’s advanced in her career and moved Green works in Chevron’s upstream business, which around, Green says the support of her husband, explores for and produces crude oil and gas. her daughter and the company has enabled her to During her nearly 20-year career with Chevron, balance her career and her family life. For Green, Green, who started her career as a programmer, has a big part of being successful is balancing work valued the opportunities Chevron has given her, in with personal life and developing fully in both arprogramming, IT management, business analysis, eas. In considering companies to work for, Green project management and team leadership roles. believes it’s important not only to look at the Green says she has enjoyed and learned from every career opportunities but also to make sure “the job. company really supports that full development, “They have all helped me grow and get to where I both professional and personal,” she says. ■ am today,” she says. hen it was time to choose a college major, Alysia Green went with her interest in math, although she had no idea what type of career it would lead to. She chose the mathematical and computational sciences program at Stanford University, because she liked the combination of classes. “I saw the degree was a mix of math, statistics, operations research and computers. All of those looked interesting to me,” says Green. “I figured if I majored in something I enjoyed, I would enjoy any jobs
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