She is an award-winning public speaker and has presented in over twenty countries on overcoming adversity, reaching your dreams, computer security, and project management. She served in the Michigan Army National Guard as a communications specialist and was commissioned into the US Army Officer Signal Corp, serving on Active Duty and later the US Army Reserves. She has worked at both the US European Command and the US Northern Command & North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on multiple communications and IT projects. She served two years as a senior cyber security policy analyst at the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President and currently works as the Senior Cyber Security Advisor for the Department of Energy Chief Information Security Officer.