Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems
Ohio University – Athens, OH
August 1997 – November 2001
However, Ohio University gave me more than a business degree…
With a single parent who worked at Ohio University for 20 years, it’s fair to say I was born and raised on campus. My early years were spent attending the Child Development Center in Putnam Hall, where my mother worked upstairs as a secretary at the School of Dance and my very first experience in organization and project management was assisting her with the production of the quarterly student dance concerts.
By the time I was in middle school, Mom was the Assistant Director of Institutional Equity and I would spend my summer days in town with her, roaming campus. I spent hours at Alden Library, where I quickly mastered the computerized catalog system, ALICE, to find books on the subject of the day (ALICE was my Google) and I was obsessed with combing through old newspapers in the basement microfiche department. I loved walking the halls of the art building where I could peek in at student art installations, and I knew exactly which hours of the day I could secure myself a small private room with a piano in the music building.
Throughout high school, I worked summer jobs cleaning and painting dorm rooms. And throughout college I spent my summers working for Computer Network Services, refurbishing, replacing and updating hardware and software in those same dorm rooms I had cleaned and painted while in high school.
Fast forward to present day, where I now own a home five minutes from campus that I love to share with visiting parents and alumni when I am away from Athens digital nomadding. So yes, I have a business degree from Ohio University, but over the years I have learned and shared much more from this special school in this special town tucked in to the hills of Appalachia.
