EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT
ESTEFANIA YZAR GARCIA
Quality Control Technician – QC
How long have you been with MMQCI and how did you first learn about our company?
I have been here for 5 months and I heard about MMQCI through my university’s career page.
What are your primary responsibilities?
To test the products after they have been manufactured or filled the same way our customers would use them and make sure they are behaving correctly, troubleshooting when we don’t get the results within specifications, make the testing required to handle costumer complaints, among others tasks.
Describe MMQCI in three words:
Teamwork, organized, friendly.
What do you like best about MMQCI?
The way everybody is willing to help, which is especially nice when you are a new employee.
How would you describe your team?
Fun, hardworking
What are the toughest challenges you’ve had at work?
To learn how all the systems we use work, and the technology behind them, in order to understand the results we obtain from each one. Also, learning why a certain product or procedure is not working as it should.
What has your experience been with our company culture?
Very positive, I felt welcome since the first day and everybody have been helpful and friendly.
What do you like to do in your free time?
Work out, travel, spend time with my friends, play with my cat and read
What’s the most unique part about working at MMQCI?
Learning about the new technologies that are being developed for diagnostic testing and the products MMQCI designs for these new systems.
In terms of successes, which accomplishments are you most proud of?
Moving to another country to study a Master’s in Biochemistry and finding a job that I like and that is related to science.
What’s one thing that’s on your “Bucket List”?
Visit the 7 wonders of the world
What piece of advice would you give to your younger self?
Go for it. Take any opportunity you can and apply to everything you want (student groups, internships, jobs, sport teams), the worst think that can happen is getting a no for an answer and you can move on to the next opportunity.
What do you enjoy most about working here?
Doing the testing, I enjoy being in the lab.
Where were you born and raised?
In Queretaro, Mexico
What’s one thing that surprised you about your current role?
The variety of assays I learned, the different technologies behind each of them and all the paperwork we need to complete for each product.
What’s the last song you listened to?
Brillas, by Leon Laguerri
What, if anything, are you currently binge-watching? Or reading?
I’m reading The Raven Queen, the second book of the Storyweaver saga from D.K. Holmberg and I’m watching the Legend of Korra
What is something about you that most people don’t know?
I practice martial arts (Brazilian jiujitsu and Muay Thai) and I did Japanese jiujitsu back in Mexico.
What best advice can you give someone who might be interested in joining us here at MMQCI?
If you’re interested in joining us - apply! You will not regret it.