I am an experienced business professional and educator. Here's my story: 

• I graduated Siena College with a Bachelor's in Business Administration (BBA) with accounting as my major. I worked at Loftus, Ross + Co., CPAs (now MMB + Co.) for 3 years, gaining a vast knowledge of accounting and taxes.

• I then was hired as a senior accountant at Organichem (which became Albany Molecular Research, which is now Curia Global). Here, I oversaw all cost accounting functions, working closely with plant management. At this time, I also began my own tax practice preparing individual returns.

• After Organichem, I worked at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals as a cost accountant. One of my primary responsibilities was the design and installation of the costing and accounting functionalities of OPM: Oracle Process Manufacturing.

• I was recruited and hired as an Assistant Controller at Lydall Thermal Acoustical, Inc. At Lydall, I was promoted to Controller, where I was one of the top executives at the plant (the others were the General Manager, Director of Operations and the Director of Sales & Marketing). I managed the accounting, human resources, and IT departments.

What is my instructional experience? 

Though I was very successful and my career was progressing rapidly, I felt a tug, a compelling, a pull in another direction. I felt like I needed to pursue my purpose and follow a life-long desire to be a teacher. I knew I would make much less and there was not a lot of business teaching openings at the time, but I had to take the risk and see what the world had in store for me.

• I received my Masters in Secondary Education from The College of Saint Rose and became certified in:

  • Business and Marketing K-12

  • Mathematics 7-12

  • Mathematics 5-6 Extension

  • Work-based Learning

• I worked at Chatham High School teaching a variety of business classes, building a highly successful business program. At Chatham, I was a teacher leader, a teaching mentor, a technology leader, a union treasurer, and more.

• After 10 years at Chatham, the Questar III New Visions Business, Finance, & Marketing program was looking for someone with basically MY business background and MY teaching experience and MY ability to build a new program. Though I never saw myself leaving Chatham, I couldn't pass up this calling for what seemed like a job description written specifically for me.