Hometown Pride Meets High-Tech Promise
Liam O’Connor ‘24, MBA ‘25 Joins Global Policy Communications Team at Micron
Liam O’Connor ‘24, MBA ‘25 is a seventh-generation Central New Yorker. Not surprisingly, O’Connor is deeply invested in the region’s success. He wants it to be a place where young people can not only find professional opportunities, but also a sense of community and belonging. O’Connor believes that the area is at an inflection point, one that he believes will bring more talented young people to the region, buoyed by an industry that will almost certainly play a role in shaping the future.
I want to see the community I love grow and to be a place that more and more people are as proud to call home as I am. I want them to see how many opportunities there are to make a meaningful impact right here in our backyard.”
O’Connor works in global policy communications for Micron, a Fortune 500 company that designs, manufacturers and sells memory storage products. As he explained in a letter to the editor in the Post-Standard, the company is investing $100 billion in a new facility in the Syracuse suburb of Clay. It is expected to bring with it 9,000 direct jobs and tens of thousands of indirect ones. O’Connor is charged with preparing briefings for the organization’s leaders, up to and including CEO Sanjay Mehrotra; contributing to the company’s media campaigns; and helping to draft informational materials for various government agencies.
It is a role that requires attention to detail and the capacity to juggle multiple competing priorities. Those are skills O’Connor cultivated earlier in his professional life, in his work for numerous political campaigns in the Central New York media market and with the Onondaga County Human Rights Commission. He also draws liberally from his time at Le Moyne, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in communication and a master’s degree in business administration. He regularly applies the lessons he learned on the Heights about communications, operations and strategic leadership to his role at Micron. His education shaped the way he looks at the world, and his place in it. It nurtured his capacity to look at things from a variety of perspectives and to promote cooperation among a variety of stakeholders.
“Le Moyne educates its students very holistically,” he says. “I think it makes us better people and more interesting people out in the world. It has certainly helped me in my career and in my life.”
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