Obviously,
perspective is key to their differences. For example, says Commissioner
Lynum, “I stopped cooking many years ago (my ex-husband
was an excellent cook, I wasn’t), but I could have sworn
Juan was older than 10 years old. I know I taught them to cook
and do laundry, but at age 10?”
Among
her fondest memories is the timE That Sean, then 16, was fired
from Wendy’s. “I was away on a trip and he didn’t
think he was supposed to go to work in the rain,” said Lynum
laughing as she told the story.
Commissioner Lynum and her boys lived in the home that her father
and ex-husband built over 30 years ago. Her husband, a builder
and ex-chief of police in another Florida city, was away from
home most of the time. So the famed mother and sons trio became
content doing what mothers and sons do best––the sons
playing tricks on Mom, and Mom insisting on cleanliness and academics.
According
to the Commissioner, it was not hard to steer Sean into the direction
of academics. He was educated in private schools, and loved it.
Juan would have no parts of private school. Rather, he insisted
on attending Jones High School, where he flourished. The younger
Lynum was selected out of all other Orange County high school
students to be an engineering intern at Lockheed Martin. He was
elected “Mr. Senior” and SGA treasurer during his
senior year.
Now
among the ranks of Jones High Schools up-and-coming notable alumni,
Juan attended Florida A & M University, where he majored in
mechanical engineering. During his junior year, he changed his
major to business administration. He earned two of the top internships
- spending eight months in IBM Financial Co-Op program in New
York in 1997, and eight months with Bristol-Myers Squibb’s
sales internship program in Buffalo, NY.
As
an intern in Buffalo, Juan achieved top 10% market share growth
with Plavix. He received an offer to work with BMS upon graduation.
He accepted the offer and moved to Frederick, Maryland in 1999
as a sales representative. Juan began working on his MBA at Hood
College at night, and then he attended Mount Saint Mary’s
College. After being named “Rookie of the Year,” he
was promoted to Regional Sales Manager of the New York, Pennsylvania,
Virginia region. At age 24, he had become the youngest sales manager
in the company.
Juan
finished his MBA in accounting, during the summer of 2001 at the
Rider University in Lawrenceville, He later studied global business
in Budapest and Paris. From there, he pursued international opportunities
with the company in Spain, where he studied Spanish full time,
and worked as an international marketing intern in the Madrid
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