As a former state and federal prosecutor she specialized in both violent and white-collar crime, securing significant narcotics trafficking, defense procurement and bank fraud convictions. She argued and won appeals on several of her cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. As a Director of an independently-owned investigative consulting and business intelligence firm she led internal corporate fraud, compliance and due diligence investigations, for a variety of private and publicly held Fortune-50 companies. As an attorney for the City Law Department she defended Mayoral agency policy initiatives and actions in the area of civil rights, employment and education.