I am a native Virginian and I have resided in the Washington Metro area most of my life. After completing my degree in Economics and Sociology at UVA, I moved to Los Angeles where I attended the UCLA School of Law. I subsequently moved to Florida where I received an MBA from the University Of Florida School Of Business. I then returned to California where I began my IT career working for Oracle Corporation selling business applications and Decision Support Software.

Although I enjoyed California tremendously, I transferred to the Oracle Campus in Reston, Virginia, in 2000, where I focused on providing integrated business solutions and services to an organization called Oracle Service Industries (“OSI”). It is now formally known as Oracle Public Sector and I worked there until 2007.

I got started in the IT industry using my knowledge of finance, business processes, and managed consulting in order to help organizations leverage technology to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. For the first three years of my career when I was with OSI, I focused on industries whose end product to the consumer was a service (government, telecommunications, utilities, and financial services). Since then I have focused specifically on the Public Sector (federal, state & local, and higher education). As an accomplished IT professional, I have traveled extensively throughout the contiguous United States meeting with customers, participating in trade shows, and delivering presentations, demonstrations, and seminars on the business benefits and value of various types of technology. Consequently, I have a fondness for travel, and I am extremely adept at public speaking, delivering presentations, and demonstrating technology.

I own several Oracle certifications and multiple continuing education credits along with membership in several IT-related professional organizations. My interest in technology, however, extends beyond my professional life. My experience and civic participation has given me the opportunity to leverage my technical knowledge on behalf of non-profit and philanthropic organizations to help them achieve their stated objectives more efficiently and allow me to use my knowledge to contribute to the greater social good. I was a regular participant in The Project Discovery Program and I am a recurring contributor to the Ridley Scholarship Foundation.