Growing up, my family moved from time to time as my father established a truck equipment distributorship. Settling in California, I worked my way through college learning equally from my business classes and at my dad's side. After graduation, I spent a year in retail management before returning to our company, eventually becoming the Controller. We grew from $2M to $6M, opened two branches, won government contracts, upgraded facilities, and implemented an industry-specific accounting system during my tenure.

My more recent work experience had me in the CFO seat for a service-based company. There, I refined skills like business valuation, M&A, payroll and tax management in multiple states, HR best practices, cash flow projections, and financial analysis based on large data sets.