About Me

Why I do this

I love what I do because it's interesting to me - I take pride in it and it's actually a lot of fun. I get along great with my clients, too. I look for mutually beneficial relationships and I really enjoy working with people who are in the "serving" industries, particularly life and business coaching.

I'm based in Erie, PA and try to keep a normal work schedule (the kind where you start at a certain time and end at a certain time) because I have a lovely son, Aidan, with whom I enjoy spending all of my time when I'm not working!

Where I am on the web

How I learned what I know

To be honest, I really do not even remember a time when I didn't know HTML or how to manipulate and work with many code languages and markup languages. I must have learned at some point in high school, but that was awhile ago and my pre-HTML days are fuzzy memories. I've always been technically-inclined.

I studied at Oral Roberts University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Technical Writing and a minor concentration in Public Relations and Advertising, in May 2003. My internships were in website development and I gained experience working with websites both off and on-campus.

Post-graduation, I worked in technology for 4 1/2 years, first as a technical writer with TV Guide Interactive in Tulsa, OK, then as assistant product manager with the same company (had become a joint venture with Comcast called GuideWorks), and then as a business analyst with a smaller techology company, Overture Technologies.

Through those positions, my knowledge of internet and internet marketing expanded. By the time I left Overture Technologies and started working for myself, I had either learned formally or was self-taught enough to feel comfortable taking on work for others.

My earliest days of business ownership were actually in college, in 2001, when I launched my very first website. I used Dreamweaver and it was really a playground for me. I even had an actual client! I was still in school and eventually the business faded away, but it was a great launching pad for me and was probably where I first began to realize that running my own business might be doable.