After all these years, this remains to be a difficult question to answer. I’m American and I have lived in three different countries. I come from a very large family of 10 siblings, and I have a twin sister.

I’m from Dallas, Texas where I worked as an Associate professor at what is called a ‘City College’. Dallas is also where I met and married my husband. In the past 12 years I’ve worked in the advertising, research marketing and communication industry in some form or other. I’m a user experience designer and newly certified data analyst.

I am passionate about learning new things, simplifying tasks, and maintaining a closeness with loved ones. My interests include reading, traveling, learning about other cultures, music, yard work, social causes and watching sporting events.

In September 2001, my husband and I relocated from Dallas, Texas to The Netherlands after he was offered a job opportunity in Zeist. Our weekend trips often took us to visit his family and after five years and many family discussions we decided to relocate for a second time (to Denmark) for what I thought would be a short stay of two years. Long story short, it has been 16 years this September, and in 2020 I became a dual citizen receiving my Danish citizenship.

My first years in Denmark were challenging especially when I started looking for jobs and was told that my BSc. degree in Biology/Psychology from an American University was not valid for work in Denmark.  And was offered to ‘redo’ my advance education if I so wanted to. I took the opportunity to select a new career path in IT and stepped away from pursuing anything further in the field of biology/psychology. I basically had to start over. First Danish language school for two years, and then the next three years of study ending with receiving my master’s degree at AAU Copenhagen in Science and Technology specializing in media management.

In 2019 I was invited to buy into a partnership with a few web developers. That was exciting. However, after speaking with people who knew about partnerships, I instead decided to seek out more collaborations with other entrepreneurs and freelancers. That decision gave me a chance to learn new thing from other small companies like my own and to learn from them in how to build (up) a strong and sustainable client list. I am happy that I made that choice because not only have I been able to improve my problem-solving, communication and Danish (business) skills, I have also made some long-lasting friendships. My most recent  projects, working with a team of data analysts, had such a big influence on me that I decided to switch my career focus into the field of data analytics. In May of this year, I became a Google certified data analyst. I’m looking forward to working with other analyst to improve my data visualization and storytelling skills.

First I would like to say that similar to the other honorees of  ProWoc Celebrates, one of my greatest achievement and definitely the highlight of my career is starting my own business. I have a desire to teach everyone the simplicity of building a website.

As for my career journey it has never been a straight trajectory towards a designated end point. Often times the projects that I work on have dictated the next steps in my career.

I started my professional career as a Usability specialist at an international research firm in Copenhagen. I’m of the school of ‘Simplicity is the key,” and many of the websites that I was in charge of conducting user testing were all but simple. So I sought out to teach companies how they could create a simple website that users would feel a sense of connection with, what was offered.