Jason Mosery has wanted to design cars since he was 5 years old.
Today, the 2015 University of Louisiana at Lafayette grad is working for Ford in the same place his former professor, Jerome Malinowski, helped design the Mustang’s red, white and blue logo 50 years ago.
Mosery’s journey to Dearborn, Mich., is featured on the Automotive News website.
“Mosery had a bit of luck, some help, a mentor and good timing. But it was more a combination of hard work, determination and social media savvy that landed him his job at Ford fresh out of school earlier this year,” writes Richard Truett, technology and engineering reporter for Automotive News.
The 29-year-old Mosery had dropped out of school and was working at a bank in Monroe, La., when he told a customer about his dream of designing cars.
The customer encouraged him to contact Malinowski at UL Lafayette. Mosery enrolled in its industrial design program and caught the professor’s eye.
“I saw a passion in Jason that I probably have never seen in any student,” Malinowski told Truett.
Before graduating in May, Mosery used social media to network with folks in the auto industry about getting a job in Detroit.
He managed to get an internship, which ultimately led to his becoming “one of about 140 clay modelers working at Ford’s Product Development Center in Dearborn, in the same building Malinowski worked 50 years ago,” Truett writes.
Caption: Jason Mosery works in Ford’s Product Development Center in Deaborn, Mich.
Photo credit: Ford