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B<\/span>y Jessica Hirsch<\/p>\n

Over the summer, Christopher Porter (Class of 2016) interned as a sales engineer for Google in the Japan office, located in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m half Japanese, and I grew up in both Japan and the U.S.,\u201d Porter said. \u201cI was doing consulting work before I came to Darden, but I wasn\u2019t using my Japanese background at all, so I was looking for something to help me feel more fulfilled and to use that skill set. This internship allowed me to pull my background into my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Porter stands in the front lobby of Google’s Roppongi Tokyo office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Google, Porter worked as a sales engineer in the Google for Work division, which provides customizable enterprise solutions using Google products to the business world.\u00a0 Porter served as a technical advisor to help companies\u2019 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) understand the benefits and uses of the products which they were considering and purchasing. His role also required understanding the sales cycle and looking ahead to assess how to launch new products in the market.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis opportunity provided a way for me to take my analytical background and business skills and meet in the middle.\u201d Porter said. \u201cGoogle for Work feels like a startup in a huge search company. It was a small team and a very cross-functional experience with everyone working together in that startup environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Porter\u2019s fellow interns hailed from diverse countries such as Japan, India, and France, all of the interns spoke Japanese.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving in Japan wasn\u2019t as eye-opening for me because I grew up with the culture, but I still went through a learning process with business in Japan,\u201d Porter said. \u201cClients often had different concerns than what you would hear from an American company. For example, security is of much greater concern in Japan.\u00a0 I learned to always think about how the brand translates to new markets and how to showcase and develop aspects of a brand or product that appeal to a particular market.<\/p>\n

Porter explained that although Google has a very large presence in the U.S., the company is still working to be seen as a competitor abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never would have realized how different the world\u2019s business cultures and regional markets can be,\u201d Porter said. \u201cThis experience will help shape my leadership perspective and choices down the road. It\u2019s important to not be afraid to take risks and work outside of the typical path.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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