Employee Spotlight: Melida Aizpurua, Sales Manager

Our latest spotlight is about Melida Aizpurua, Accumet’s talented and long serving Sales Manager. Our Employee Spotlights focus on the individuals who work hard to help Accumet innovate and accelerate the manufacturing process for our clients.

What is your role at Accumet?
I take pride in being a trusted advisor to our clients for over 20 years. As Sales Manager, I lead a wonderful team of smart, hard-working, sales people and key personnel who I consider to be like family. We collaborate with our clients to develop solutions for their precise specifications and deliver with fast shipping and consistent reliability. We are passionate about taking care of our clients' needs whether it’s hitting critical delivery dates, resolving R&D design issues, or managing the steps to convert small prototype orders into high volume runs. You see, we all are very aware that our mission is to make a valuable difference for our clients. For me, there is nothing more rewarding than hearing about our many client success stories and knowing that our work matters. 

What is your background?
For most of my career I have been working with the amazing people at Accumet. I started on the production floor in 1992.  After that I became a QA Inspector, then I was an assistant in the engineering department, and eventually I became a production manager. After witnessing a steady stream of manufacturing advancements at Accumet, I was promoted to sales management to help our clients achieve a clear path to manufacturing success. I love staying on my toes about innovative product materials and process methodologies. I share the latest industry knowledge with our clients, every day. I love working at Accumet because I am part of an organization that provides avenues for employees to reach their individual career goals and we do great work for our clients. Even though I have worked here for years, each day brings a new interesting challenge. We are all given the opportunity for growth, and I appreciate that! No day is ever boring.

What is something that someone may not know about you?
I am bilingual. I speak both English and Spanish fluently.

What is your favorite thing about working at Accumet?
It’s the people: co-workers and customers alike. I am so blessed to be in daily conversation with such wonderful, caring and considerate people who also inspire me. 

What are 3 words you would use to describe Accumet?
Exciting. Ever-changing. Innovative.

If you could pick anyone, who would you pick as a mentor?
Denzel Washington. I watched a video of the graduation speech he gave at the University of Pennsylvania. It was the most motivational speech about always giving it your all and never giving up. Denzel was so passionate. I love how humble he is, is spite of his success. I would love to have lunch with him. 

What is your favorite thing to do outside of work?
I love, love, love to cook. Arroz con Pollo is my specialty. I am occasionally featured in my son’s food blogs.

What would you do as a career, if you weren’t doing this?
I'd be a Chef.

If you could learn to do anything, what would it be?
I would love to learn other languages. French and Mandarin Chinese would be at the top of my list.

Get to know more about the Accumet team by reading our Employee Spotlights in our Updates section. If you have a question about working at Accumet or our advanced manufacturing capabilities, contact us today.