About Me

I know I lost some of you there.  For many people who know me, this will sound strange.  These are the people who know that art and design are my passion.  Well, I have found a way to use those skills in a more specialized manner.

A little more background on me first. I grew up in Mobile, Alabama.  I graduated from UMS-Wright Preparatory School and moved on to Mississippi State University. At Mississippi State I studied Graphic Design and painting.  After graduating from there with a BFA I moved to Houston, Texas.

I lived in Houston for 3 1/2 years.  While there I worked at Builder Display and Art, Marrot Communications and Edge Creative Strategies.  I enjoyed working in the advertising world and working in print design, but I wanted to be closer to my family.

So I moved from Houston to Birmingham in order to work for CTS, Inc.  I came to CTS to grow their brand.  The company was in need of a fresh mind to think about how to proceed. CTS is a great IT Professional Services firm that was established in 1993.  In the years that I have worked at CTS I have been happy to see the company grow and reach new goals.  The biggest change that I have undertaken as a part of the CTS Marketing team has been a revamp of the corporate look.  As most designers know, this can be quite a challenge.

In working with CTS I was exposed to SharePoint and began to see that this was a technology that I could perhaps enjoy working with. So I have spent 3 years so far exploring SharePoint and how I can use my graphic design knowledge and User Experience skills to work with this web application.

What's Your Mountain?

So here I am today, working as a SharePoint Consultant and Graphic Designer in Birmingham, Alabama. But that too is about to change. 

I now work with Summit 7 Systems, and they are in Huntsville, Alabama.  So the next stop on my journey is life in Huntsville working for a great company and getting to work with SharePoint more and more.  Summit 7 is a great company that does excellent SharePoint work.  I join them as a Senior Consultant focused on Branding, Information Architecture, and Business Analysis.  This is a very exciting new chapter for me and I am very excited for it even if I do have to move for the 7th time in 7 years.

In working with SharePoint I also came to realize that there was a gap in the Birmingham community for a User Group surrounding SharePoint.  So in October of 2008, I launched the Birmingham SharePoint Users Group.

Okay, so that is a little background on me. But here are some random facts that you might not know.

1. I like to paint
2. I quilt
3. I was a ballerina for many years
4. I like to travel and meet people