background
In 2005 I received my Bachelors of
Science in Graphic Design from
Missouri Western State University. I conducted classes
at MCE and another local center, showing others the techniques I had learned while attending the university. I came away from that office with first hand business management experience, and the practice of good communication concerning financial accountability, media
relations, team and project meetings, and working both with and as a supervisor.
Throughout college and for several years after, I worked for
MidCity Excellence (MCE), a small learning center in St. Joseph, MO. I started
out as a volunteer, trying to do something productive
with my spare time. I convinced the university to donate some systems and
setup the first cpu lab, then developed youth oriented classes for which I
could write grants in order to acquire newer equipment as well as funding
for the marketing tools needed to promote the classes.
Afterwards, I moved to Atlanta for a few months to assist a relative, and I worked as a freelance designer and continued doing some contract work with MCE.
Some months later I returned to the midwest and took on an IT support position with
Applied Measurement Professionals, Inc. where I very much enjoyed working with other like minded IT engineers for a little over two years until I moved to Oklahoma to get married in July of 2010 when I also began working for Oklahoma's
Office of State Finance, IT/Information Services Division. On September 8th, 2011, my husband and I purchsased a home in Shawnee, OK.