♦ I owned my first business when I was 21 years old, catering.  I gave up that business when I got married and joined my husband in lawn maintenance.  I gave that up when I got divorced. This is when I joined the corporate world. Many years later I turned my soapmaking hobby into a business; and then into a wholesale business, selling to retail stores across the nation.

♦ In the late 1980’s I went to technical school for computer operations and this is where my love of technology began.  I eventually ended up in marketing at a fortune 500 company, managing their website.  I continued to advance and after 17 years, I ended my career as a Business Intelligence Architect (those are basically big words for GEEK).

I’ve closed my soapmaking business in 2016.  Why?  Because I moved ‘back home’ to beautiful Sarasota, Florida.  The Florida regulations for soap & cosmetics are brutal.  Honestly, I took this as an opportunity to get back to my first passion, the technology industry… here I am!