{"id":10682,"date":"2019-05-30T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T13:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=10682"},"modified":"2019-06-10T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:10:06","slug":"graduate-profile-barbara-ortner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/05\/30\/graduate-profile-barbara-ortner\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate profile: Barbara Ortner, BA English and American Literature and German"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Barbara Ortner<\/p>\n<p>Course: BA (Hons) English &amp; American Literature and German, 1975-1979<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you doing now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am Head of Market Reporting, a global role at a major data company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to your course, and to Kent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed speaking German and reading literature. I particularly enjoyed my year abroad in Vienna, teaching English and speaking German.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What impressed you most about our academic staff?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They were very well read, and we had fun in the translation class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which skills\/knowledge did you learn on your course that you use most now in your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fluency in German and the discipline to learn other languages, like Mandarin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you still in touch with any of your fellow students?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am still married to one, and we recently had a reunion of our friends in Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Could you describe a typical day in your current role?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I travel all over the world, train up reporters in London, Houston and Singapore, and do internal audits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your future plans\/aspirations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope to manage an acquisition company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your favourite memory of Kent? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parties in Rutherford College and college discos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice would you give to somebody thinking of coming to Kent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t go home to London at the weekends!<\/p>\n<p><strong>How would you describe your time at Kent in three words?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fun, friendly, worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/05\/ICIS_Sutton_2-crops323.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10683\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/05\/ICIS_Sutton_2-crops323-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/05\/ICIS_Sutton_2-crops323-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/05\/ICIS_Sutton_2-crops323-768x909.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/05\/ICIS_Sutton_2-crops323-865x1024.jpg 865w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/05\/ICIS_Sutton_2-crops323-1920x2272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Barbara Ortner Course: BA (Hons) English &amp; American Literature and German, 1975-1979 What are you doing now? I am Head of Market Reporting, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/05\/30\/graduate-profile-barbara-ortner\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34790,"featured_media":6197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10682"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10757,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions\/10757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}