Silvia is a leader and a liaison
Thanks to the Roux Institute, Silvia Guzmán Carbuccia is using new project management and leadership skills to build teams—and dreaming of her own business.
Growing up in the Dominican Republic, aspiring entrepreneur Silvia Guzmán Carbuccia didn’t have to look far for inspiration. Her mother ran three beauty parlors and a restaurant, and on the side, she sold used cars.
Guzmán Carbuccia, too, had an ambitious spirit. Eager to study in the U.S., she earned a scholarship to attend high school in Maine and then majored in new media at the University of Maine. She’s now a market development manager at Generac, which manufactures generators for residential, commercial, and industrial use.
Silvia Guzmán Carbuccia used her project management skills to help execute a solar project in the Caribbean.
If you want to be able to achieve something, the Roux Institute gives you the opportunities. It’s up to you to grab them and make them yours.”
Silvia Guzmán Carbuccia
Master of Science in Project Management
The Roux Institute
At Generac, Guzmán Carbuccia manages and tracks logistics on solar and storage system installations in the Caribbean market. When, in the summer of 2020, she discovered the project management graduate program at the Roux Institute, she saw an opportunity to gain skills that would make her more valuable in her job.
“It’s everything I’ve always wanted in a career,” she says. “All projects have a beginning and an end, and no two projects are the same. That really appealed to me.”
Her courses—particularly in leadership—have proved exactly what she needed to better guide installation projects from start to finish and serve as a liaison between distributors, installers, and customers.
An entrepreneur at heart, Guzmán Carbuccia aspires to run her own gym someday. She sees the Roux Institute as helping her make that dream happen, as she finds opportunities at every turn. She’s enrolled in the Entrepreneurship Summer Immersion Program and is considering a second master’s degree once she completes her current one, in 2023.
“If you want to be able to achieve something, the Roux Institute gives you the opportunities,” says Guzmán Carbuccia, whose tuition is covered by the Alfond Scholars Initiative and Generac. “It’s up to you to grab them and make them yours.”