Teisha DuQuesnay, managing director of Supreme Audio and Electronics (SAE).
As a doyenne of the audio-visual digital trade Teisha DuQuesnay, managing director of Supreme Audio and Electronics (SAE), has for greater than a decade been a visionary behind a spread of initiatives within the areas of fabrication, set up, upkeep and the restore of audio, video, and public deal with programs domestically.
Via the corporate established by her husband Staurt DuQuesnay in 1999, which she joined some years later, DuQuesnay, alongside together with her daughter Abigail and different help employees now, works to ship a variety of providers to residential and business purchasers, providing them audio-visual options, intercom, entry management, public deal with programs, and rather more.
A educated enterprise administration skilled, her experience within the area didn’t come in a single day as she needed to, on many events, get her arms soiled — and some of her nails chipped — as she challenged herself to be taught on the job, which finally helped to form the trail in her changing into a trailblazer in what is basically thought to be a male-dominated trade.
“I’m largely liable for the day-to-day enterprise operations of the corporate — which incorporates human sources, accounts, and a lot extra — however I do become involved with initiatives on occasion. I didn’t anticipate to turn out to be the supervisor for a corporation that offers with fabrication and audio visible tools however I’ve learnt to use myself over time, as while you function in such an area it’s not sufficient to know simply the executive side but in addition the technical elements of the enterprise, which usually offers with what the enterprise is admittedly about,” she stated.
Crediting the efforts of her husband who has helped to push her development within the area, the managing director stated it was his help in educating her the enterprise that has led her capacity to maneuver previous the fundamentals to mastering the basics.
“I’m a steady pupil of the trade however it feels good once I can go to the manufacturing space and have a fulsome dialog with the totally different members of the group about what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, and so forth. Within the absence of the manufacturing supervisor I can even run that division with no points as I perceive the areas and may provide recommendations on doable options,” she informed the Jamaica Observer in an interview following her choice as certainly one of J Wray & Nephew’s (JWN) Spirited Ladies for this yr’s season.
Supported by a succesful employees complement of some 20 members, the SAE group is made up of different in-house professions together with carpenters, metallic fabricators, automotive electricians, technicians, engineers, and different specialists.
“There’s numerous collaboration on this area as gone are the times when one may simply get a chunk of board, screw it collectively, and put a speaker in. There’s now numerous technical work concerned, and so collaboration is essential as enter from numerous group members is extremely required,” she acknowledged
Notably happy with her firm’s cellular software service, this section, she stated, permits her to work with JWN and plenty of different giant purchasers comparable to NCB and The UWI for which her firm designs and installs cellular options. With the cellular items, companies are in a position to lower some prices whereas benefiting from the chance to take their companies on the street, whether or not for promotional or operational functions.
“We design and construct cellular options for firms, which may take the type of a cellular workplace, kitchen, or promotional automobile. For firms comparable to JWN we’ve got been working with them over 10 years, and our partnership continues to develop as we assist them to fireside up their totally different promotional campaigns. We began out with fabricating their cellular options however have later expanded in offering audio visible tools for them, which is used at their Appleton Property location for rum excursions,” she stated.
Grateful for lasting partnerships, particularly that from JWN which has helped to push her firm ahead, DuQuesnay stated each mission has compelled her to turn out to be extra dynamic and versatile, as designs change to go well with a specific model or marketing campaign.
As a spirited girl and a dynamic feminine within the trade, and with a necessity to remain targeted and extremely organised, she credit sturdy household help which over time, she stated, has continued to be the driving pressure behind her work ethic and successes. As a spouse, mom and group chief, she additional cites the necessity to compartmentalise as a vital technique for any career-driven girl.
“For me, that work-life stability is essential because it includes how one takes care of themself and may nonetheless discover time to incorporate others. As such, I keep a really strict calendar — which suggests if a activity or appointment will not be penciled in, it gained’t get completed. As a girl in enterprise I believe organising oneself is essential and so I urge individuals to discover ways to delegate and to prioritise, based mostly on the order of significance,” she famous.
With synthetic intelligence (AI) now the order of this period, the combination of robotics and extra technologised processes, she believes, will additional assist to maneuver the trade ahead because it aids in having present processes result in new and improved options.
“We’ve been incorporating plenty of the newest merchandise in our providers however we additionally need to get to a spot the place we are able to additionally manufacture numerous these, as a substitute of getting to depend on imports. That is additionally a profitable trade, so we need to be sure that we’re positioning to make the most of all alternatives as we proceed to supply the most effective in service to all our purchasers,” DuQuesnay stated.
