Ramon Oseguera introduced us to the world of Westfield in Arcadia, where he manages the mall operations and lease relations with all the tenants.  This is Ramon’s second Rotary club, he was a blue badger at West Covina, but lost that when coming over to Arcadia. Ramon grew up in northern California, in Redwood City.  Ramon attended the University California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), graduating and making the difficult decision of either living back at home with his parents or in Hermosa Beach with 3 of his college friends that had employment as bar tenders.  He wisely chose to live in Hermosa Beach and shortly there after began 6 wonderful years of employment with Enterprise Rent a Car.  While Ramon speaks highly of Enterprise, their Management Training Program that starts you washing cars, then moves you along in the business, he did get a bit weary of answering questions from family and friends about when he was going to go to work using his educational degree.

Ramon was invited by a friend to interview with Westfield whereupon he landed employment managing a mall in the Bay area, he moved and his career and life blossomed.  He married Erin and they were blessed with a daughter, Lauren who is now 6 years old.  Not long after, Ramon was invited to manage a mall in the thriving West Covina area, which involved “selling” the location to his lovely wife Erin.  They moved and not long after had twins, a boy and a girl.  Ramon noted that as the children began to outnumber the parents, management became more challenging, moving from a man-to-man defense to a zone defense, or something like that.

Now at the Westfield mall in Arcadia, Ramon’s twins are 3 years old and life is pretty good.  Jeff Johnson asked if the Internet has had a debilitating impact on physical locations like Westfield mall?  Ramon said that people still want the hands on and social aspects of shopping in stores, business is good.  Great craft talk Ramon!!!!