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During a typical workday I work directly with maybe one or two people. Indirectly I am working with about ten, whatever I am working on gets reviewed by my mentor (he is the Engineering Manager) and from him it goes to either Marketing or the head of the Engineering Department.
What I am working on is a collaboration between the Marketing and Engineering departments. It influences this company pretty directly. The Quick Start Guides are one of the first things a client sees when they get there completed ROV. I was given drafts of guides that had been done previously and was able to redesign them to be easier to understand and pleasing to the eye.

For me I think knowing that this is what a client uses to get started impacts what I do greatly. If the guide is really technical and confusing then a client will have a very hard time understanding it and might end up doing something that will damage the ROV.

I am not sure how this department would work if they had someone other than my mentor as Manager. Bruce seems to somehow know about everything that is going on and finds a way to juggle all of and still get things done. I think that if someone new was to come in the department would fall apart for a while, and any hope of collaboration or getting a new product out would be at great risk.