About Me

My Background

I majored in English at The Ohio State University and followed it up with a Master of Education at the University of Dayton. I followed my husband to Northern Virginia, where I taught high school English for fifteen years. I was fortunate to teach in a place where many of the students' guardians are heavily invested in their student's success, so my customer/community relation skills have been essential, including my ability to interface with people who are in C-level positions.

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After becoming a team leader in the English department, I gained project leadership for two large-scale initiatives: The Exhibition of Learning and the Sophomore Interdisciplinary Team. While planning, implementing, and scaling these projects, I was also working with 150 students to gain the skills required for their grade-level English course as required by the Commonwealth of Virginia. 

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Since leaving the classroom, I have worked as an instructional content writer for Propello and a technical content writer for Vertex Innovations. At Propello, I learned how to use content management systems, Asana, and assessment engines. While at Vertex Innovations, I was subcontracted to the Rapid Innovation Team of Google Public Sector (through LTIMindtree). I packaged demos (made demo decks and guides), worked on marketing pitch decks, wrote one-pagers, and produced enablement videos for customer engineers. I learned to work with a globally dispersed team and build collegial working relationships with software engineers and Figma.