professionally

I have spent 22 years in the oil and gas industry with Occidental Petroleum. After beginning my career in Oxy's Geophysics group I moved to the Business Communications department where I was instrumental in introducing most of the business technology used by Oxy's Oil and Gas group through the 1990s, including development of their first remote access capabilities and corporate intranet.

I also spent time managing the Oxy help desk before becoming Oxy's web administrator for the Occidental corporate intranets in Houston. Prior to moving to Houston to rejoin Occidental in 2005, I administered Enron's intranet at their wind energy project in Tehachapi, California. I also developed and administered the City of Tehachapi's official Internet website for over 5 years. While working as a Web Designer between the years of 1998 - 2005 I also had the opportunity to do extensive graphic design for poster and brochure layouts for Fitnus Corporation before devoting my hours full time back to Oxy in 2005.

In 2007 to 2009 I expanded my learning with new opportunities as the web administrator for The Tagos Group and the TagosGreen^TM Business Community Internet sites. In addition to being a full time administrator for their websites I also provided IT support company wide. In April of 2009 I was approached with another new opportunity to be a Graphic Designer and Web Developer for CB&I to which I am currently employed and love the challenges and opportunities this career has brought my way. Redesigning our company website was my challenge for the first quarter of 2010. In addition to this new job I am currently exploring the option of returning to school and furthering my education from ASU Online. Only time will tell where this opportunity and challenge will take me, but I welcome this and am excited to enter back into the school realm.


 

personally

After living in California for most my life I was offered a full transfer to work in Houston, Texas. After talking it over with my family, together we packed it up and moved it all out here. I am married and have two teenage boys. One is currently  attending high school in the Cypress- Fairbanks Independent School District as well as playing club ice hockey for the Houston Wild Organization and the other is play Junior Hockey for the Phoenix Polar Bears in Chandler Arizona while attending the Junior college there as well. Yes, that's right, I am a hockey mom!! My husband Paul is currently employed as a Superintendant here in Texas in the downtown Houston area. Together when we are not working or at an ice rink for practices we are traveling with our boys to their games when ever possible.