The Owners' Manual | Issue 21 | Spring/Summer 2021

JULIE SCHEMBRI MELVILLE | ENGINEERING 02.01.21

When did you join BL Companies? I first joined BL in August 2012 in our New York City office. After 3 fun years in the greatest city on earth, I transferred to the Houston, TX office. There we got to experience Rodeo and some of the best TexMex and BBQ in the US. In April 2017, my husband’s company asked us to move to Oslo, Norway for what we thought would be a 1-2 year adventure. The adventure ended up lasting nearly 4 years when we made the decision to move home to New York with our 3.5 year old son, Alexander. If you are doing the math, yes, we had our son in a foreign country (in a different language) and that was quite the experience! What made you decide to come to BL Companies? One of my first calls upon deciding tomove back home, was of course to BL. I was beyond excited to be able to rejoin this amazing team and it feels like not a day has passed since I left! What do you enjoy doing in your free time? In my free time I love to cook, travel and spend time with family. All of which we were able to do plenty of while living in Norway. Living abroad definitely had its challenges, like trying to understand Norwegian or missing family, but it also enabled us to travel and explore so much of Europe. issue 21 // 11

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