7:00 am: By the time I get online, our European engineering team is already up and working, and our early bird Houston teammates have begun sending emails. I love our diverse and global team but learning not to check email immediately after waking up has been a difficult lesson to…
Dianna Liu is the founder and president of ARIX Technologies, a robotic inspection company using pipe-crawlers and a data analytics software platform to help manufacturing companies better manage corrosion and schedule maintenance. Prior to founding ARIX, Liu was an engineer for ExxonMobil with roles in logistics/operations and engineering. She also has had R&D experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries and prior entrepreneurship experience in founding and managing a 20-year-old continuously operating online game. Liu holds dual mechanical and biomedical engineering degrees from Duke University and an MBA from Yale University.https://www.arix-tech.com.
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