B.S., Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa, 1998.
M.B.A., Stain Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona, Minn., 2016.

AmerUs Company, Des Moines, Iowa, Legal Department, word processor, 1985-1986; administrative assistant, 1986-1989; legal administrator, 1989-1997; Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company, Des Moines, Iowa, Legal Department, legal assistant, 1997; Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, N.C., Office of Research, director, Industry Relations, 2004-2010; director, Grants & Contracts Administration, 2010-2012.

Joined Mayo Clinic, 1997; Research Administrative Services, research contract manager, 1997-2000; technology licensing manager I, Mayo Medical Ventures, 2000-2004; technology licensing manager II, 2004; Rejoined Mayo Clinic, 2012; Research Administration, research operations manager, Research Administrative Services, 2012-2017; research administrator, 2017-present; Instructor in Health Care Administration, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2022-present.