She is also a licensed civil engineer with a BSCE from Ohio State University with a specialty in transportation. She has worked on many large design/build transportation project overseeing the survey model so is no stranger to extracting as much usable data as possible to optimize the construction process. She has expertise in the entire life cycle of the model, from design/value engineering, estimating, planning, construction and as-builts. She has lived all over the country and now calls Minnesota her home.