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She started her career as a physicist, engaging in meaningful academic research as early as her freshman year at MIT, pursuing original research for the next 11 years spanning condensed matter experimental physics, chaos theory, semi-classical mechanics, dark matter theory, field theory and star formation theory and analysis at University of Michigan, UCSD and Harvard University.  The research was published in peer reviewed journals or in university publications and required original analytical calculations, computational simulations and data analysis.  She received her B.S. in physics from MIT and PhD in physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  This formed the foundation that would enable her later to deep dive into any technology, understand its essence, then adapt it or innovate on it to engineer a successful product to serve specific needs.

Wanting to make a mark in the real world, she then pursued a career in the automotive industry (GM, Aptiv, Magna) starting as an individual contributor in 2001, until she left automotive in 2021, working her way to leading cross-functional engineering teams to successful R&D (earning several patents for the team and employer), product/service specification, development, testing and launches in telematics, connectivity, infotainment, active and passive safety, EV motors, data analytics, camera lenses, coatings, powertrain waste heat thermal management, etc.  In her early career, she had the privilege of working under the mentorship of a public policy leader, thus gaining experience in coordinating industry data standards for passive safety and crash notification at the dawn of telematics.

In 2021, she left automotive to pursue a life calling to do her part in moving the needle on the adoption of clean energy and sustainability.  She conceived of a solar PV solution architecture that yields a substantially higher energy conversion efficiency and proceeded to write and submit a patent request with the help of the USPTO’s excellent pro se department.  She hopes to develop this into a product in due course.  She underwent training in PV engineering design, sustainability reporting, GHG inventory management, sustainability reporting and several other key clean energy and sustainability subjects.  She uses this newfound continuous learning to better understand corporate sustainability needs and then leverages her foundational depth in technology, science, engineering and innovation to identify and define solutions that meet these needs.

Through her various experiences, she has acquired a deep appreciation of collaborative teamwork, how to best lead a team by aligning individual objectives to a common definition of team success, and by working alongside team members to inspire, teach, learn from and engender success.

Born and raised in Essexville, MI, I left home before turning 23 to join the United States Marine Corps. One reason was because I wanted to serve since 9/11 and the wars at hand.  After spending 4 years active duty serving in the Pacific theater (2004 Tsunami Relief) and a tour of duty in Iraq  in 2006, my career was cut short due to various injuries, which forced me to seek employment outside of the manual labor field.  Since childhood and through my years in the military, I maintained a strong work ethic and desire to help others by performing honest work.  In 2011 while living in Wisconsin, I was hired by the top insurance restoration company in the country and quickly rose to the top of the ranks.  After spending almost 4 years with them and opening up an office in Michigan, I decided it was time to part ways, due to an integrity conflict that wouldn't allow me to adhere to the company's corporate, greed driven business model.  Hence the formation of United Restoration Disaster Services...  The company that holds the insurance industry to the same level of integrity that we expect from our country's finest.