I was raised in a home that values hard work and applied it to a natural and lifelong passion for learning to become the first of my extended family to seek and earn a university degree. This is how I found myself on full-time staff at a large university. The half-tuition benefit helped pay for the tuition of both a Bachelor’s and a Masters’s degree.
I enjoyed a progressive career at the University of Utah with opportunities to work with extraordinary people and explore and master many valuable skills.
Since separating from the university, I have been blessed with the time to consider which of my skills continue to inspire and energize me, and which are most valued in companies that excite me.
My next professional adventure will place me on a winning team at a company whose products are innovative, impactful, and improve the day to day conditions for their customers. I will enjoy this role as I make contributions to help the company improve development and delivery of solutions to their customers.
In 2017, I was promoted to Director and enjoyed buidling and leading a team of consultative professionals that worked on the functional business side of tech implementations, system support, customer success, and process improvement. In this role, I combined all the skills I had cumulatively gained in my career to develop and operationalize a continuous improvement system that worked well. The group was an engaged and successful team of professionals.
The pandemic offered new opportunities to expand skills and find ways to take this effective team and systems to a fully remote environment without losing momentum on in-progress projects. In most ways, we were more successful using remote strategies than in person. I believe the targeted efforts made by many organizations to make the COVID-related remote transition improved the fundamental ways these teams engage with one another.
As part of my life-long passion for learning and a commitment to professional development and upskilling, I’ve had the opportunity to volunteer for several associations concerned with improving the knowledge and expertise of professionals. During this sabbatical, I’ve enjoyed lending some of my experience to helping my husband establish and grow a Utah Chapter of an association of Family Law and Mental Health professionals to help families and children embroiled in conflict.