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Education<\/h3>\n
I have a B.S. degree in Marketing from Penn State University, a M.S. degree in Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a M.Ed. degree in Higher Education Leadership with an advising concentration from Mercer University.<\/p>\n
Career Journey<\/h3>\n
After graduating from college, I worked in large-scale event and sport management for 12 years managing events and programs for the NBA, 1996 Summer Olympic Games, NFL, WPSL, MLB, NASCAR, and Special Olympics. After that, I went to work at a marketing agency where I oversaw marketing events. Based on my skills and interests, I was invited to start a recruiting division for the company. Although I didn’t have any HR experience at the time, I jumped at the chance and became the founder and director of a recruiting division that hired over 8,000 people a year throughout the world. That experience really helps me advise my students. I know what it takes to get hired in the real world. From there I went back to school and got my master’s degree in higher ed, which led me to URI. How did I get this job? Through networking (including informational interviews), hard work, and creativity during my interview process. <\/p>\n
When not supporting career and experiential education at URI, you will find me:<\/strong> Spending time with my family especially my spouse, our 12 year old daughter, and two Yorkies. I love to play tennis, hike, bike, kayak, coach my daughter\u2019s sports teams, read, create photo books, travel, and make videos. <\/p>\nWhat strength do you most identify with and why:<\/strong> My number one strength is Learner, which resonates with me on so many levels. I have always loved learning in all areas of my life through education, reading, connecting with others, and experiencing different adventures. Through my role as a career education specialist, I strive to help students learn things that will help them both personally and professionally.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":25295,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"peoplegroups":[573,508,579,582,597,960,612,615,618,621,624,627,630,633,693,699,726,729],"class_list":["post-16055","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","peoplegroups-biology","peoplegroups-ces","peoplegroups-chemistry","peoplegroups-chemistry-forensic-chemistry","peoplegroups-computer-science","peoplegroups-data-science","peoplegroups-engineering-biomedical","peoplegroups-engineering-chemical","peoplegroups-engineering-civil-and-environmental","peoplegroups-engineering-computer","peoplegroups-engineering-electrical","peoplegroups-engineering-industrial-and-systems","peoplegroups-engineering-mechanical","peoplegroups-engineering-ocean","peoplegroups-marine-biology","peoplegroups-mathematics","peoplegroups-physics","peoplegroups-physics-and-physical-oceanography"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/16055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/16055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37380,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/16055\/revisions\/37380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"peoplegroups","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/peoplegroups?post=16055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}