LEADERSHIP SPOTLIGHT Sean O’Leary | Floodproofing.com, Inc.
Name: Sean O’Leary
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Title: Territory Manager PA NJ NY
What is your business motto?
Age: 32
“Be open and honest. If something isn’t worth doing right, it’s not worth doing."
Company, City: Floodproofing.com, Inc,
When did you first become interested in your career path?
Years in field: 10
I grew up in the coastal town of Longport and I was a senior in college during Hurricane Sandy. Being in Philadelphia it was easy to run back to my parent’s home to check in on any damage except the islands were closed for a week to everyone. Personally I hated that feeling of helplessness. Once we were allowed back, it was a heart ache seeing the devastation caused by Sandy so when I graduated, I was able to take those lessons and experiences and grow into this industry protecting structures in the communities I grew up in.
Mt Royal NJ
Education: St. Joseph’s University City of Residence: Audubon, NJ
What is the most rewarding part of your job? Least rewarding? The most rewarding part without a doubt is having the ability to affect change. I can sleep easy at night knowing my clients and many communities are better suited to protect themselves in the face of the next storm. The least rewarding is the reactiveness part of the job. Building Code requires products I manufacture and represent to be installed on structures so addressing a new building is easy. But following a flooding event, going into these affected communities seeing the devastation caused, it brings me back to the feelings of helplessness I had in 2012.
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