Vandana Jaiswani Builds a New Chapter in Supply Chain and STEM

For Vandana Jaiswani, a career has not been a single, fixed route. It has unfolded through relocation, changing responsibilities and a willingness to enter unfamiliar fields. After beginning with an internship at a small company in India in 2001, she built experience across technology roles in the Chicago area before pivoting to supply chain management in 2025. She is now bringing that adaptable outlook to operational work while developing two organizations with community and educational aims.

The transition connects several strands of Vandana’s professional experience. Her technology background introduced her to the demands of serving clients and helping companies meet their needs. Supply chain management gives her a different setting in which to apply problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on helping companies manage their supply chains effectively and efficiently.

A first view of professional life

Vandana traces the beginning of her working life to 2001, when she joined a small company in India as an intern. Although she remained there for about a year and a half, the experience gave her an early view of a world beyond the one she already knew. It marked the start of a professional path that would eventually cross industries and national borders.

After marrying, she moved to the United States within approximately three years to pursue work. She describes that development as destiny. The move also required her to establish a career in a new country and professional environment. She has since made her home in the Chicago area, including Deerfield, Illinois.

Over the following years, Vandana worked in different technology positions. Her account of that period emphasizes movement rather than a single job title: she navigated a variety of roles while helping companies excel in their work with clients. That client-facing perspective became an important part of her experience, requiring attention to business expectations as well as technical work.

Moving into supply chain management

In 2025, Vandana made a deliberate pivot into supply chain management. She currently works as a supply chain manager, moving from a technology-centered career into a role focused on how companies coordinate the resources and processes needed to operate.

The shift represents a new professional chapter, but it does not stand apart from her earlier work. Technology roles and supply chain responsibilities can both demand structured thinking, coordination and responsiveness to clients. In Vandana’s case, the common thread is practical support for organizations: first through technology and client work, and now through efforts to improve supply chain effectiveness and efficiency.

Her undergraduate education was completed in 2001, the same year she began her internship. Her specialization was computer applications, providing a foundation for the technology work that occupied much of her career. The later move into supply chain management reflects her readiness to build on that background while taking on a different operational focus.

Creating space for service and STEM

Alongside her corporate work, Vandana has chosen to develop two LLCs with distinct purposes. Adopt for a Day is conceived as a nonprofit initiative. ProjectCAD is focused on encouraging innovation and interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics among students.

ProjectCAD brings her professional background into conversation with education. Having started in computer applications and spent years in technology, Vandana is directing attention toward students who may be forming their own ideas about technical subjects and future opportunities. Her stated aim is to drive both innovation and interest in STEM rather than treating the field only as a career destination.

These initiatives remain part of a broader effort to contribute beyond her immediate job responsibilities. Together, they reflect two priorities in her current chapter: creating a vehicle for service and helping students engage with STEM.

Connecting with women who persist

Vandana also wants to connect with women who have survived difficult circumstances, continued to thrive and then helped other women succeed. That interest is grounded in her own emphasis on perseverance. She describes having faced hardships over the 25 years since leaving home, while relying on gratitude for a healthy body and mind to keep moving forward.

Her story is therefore less about arriving at one final role than about remaining open to the next responsibility. From an internship in India to technology work in the Chicago area, and from client support to supply chain management, Vandana has continued to adapt. Her emerging community and STEM initiatives extend that same forward-looking approach toward others.