Management

“Franciscan does such a great job of combining education, spirituality, and community,” she adds. “It gave me a heart for service.”

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For Holly O’Brien ’13, the strong Catholic values that are naturally part of Franciscan University’s Business Program laid a firm foundation both for her studies and for career success.
“My education was never biased, because it was rooted in the true reality,” she says. “The ethics were so solid, and I didn’t come out questioning things.”
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Caroline Mentyka works with a team to coordinate improvements in Southwest Airlines’ reservation system. She ensures that the airline delivers quality code to customers as well as front-line employees through testing applications from all across the different areas of the company. She is also the culture lead for her department, in charge of planning events for fellow employees.

Joe Norton ’13 belongs to a family of Franciscan University alums. He’s one of eight to attend, and one of six who have already graduated. He’s one of four who have graduated with a computer information science major. Joe minored in business management. It’s a combination that he describes as essential given his career as a software engineer with the social jukebox and music service Radio in San Francisco.“I use cutting-edge technologies on a small backend team to serve data for millions of customers, primarily through writing code for our distributed backend. Duties include payments processing, new feature development, user notifications, data storage retrieval, security, and more,” says Joe.