I was originally raised in Utah and I lived about a year and a half in Japan, two years in San Francisco, four years in Pennsylvania and now I'm back in Utah. I am married and I have four daughters. I enjoy sports, music, and travel.

I don't know the exact distinction between which jobs undergrad get or grad get. But, I'll try to figure that out. So, as far as our undergraduate curriculum - I think that we have one of the most technical undergrad IS program around. Where they have already programming classes before they're admitted into our program. And then we have, what we call the junior course, during junior year. And we've got four classes in fall, four classes in winter term. I think some covers the spring term and they integrate in teams across those four classes/ So, you are with that team of four, for all of your classes that semester; we have projects that integrate across those classes. So, in the fall we have the third programming class essentially; database class, system analysis, system design and project management. And then in winter term again - some people switch group in semester break, another stay in same groups for four more classes together the next semester. For the next term, we have data analytics class; we have datacom; we have information security and controls; and the fourth one is kind of enterprise development level. So, at that point they're actually building in connection with some of the other classes and interactive website that can process transactions; they do up front and the back end and build their own servers and all that. So, that's junior year for everyone and then what was interesting about our program is: we have an integrated masters program. Such that if you get accepted and you apply after that junior year, so based on the grades that they earned during junior year, especially; we can admit sixty - so we have a hundred twenty in our undergraduate cohort each year, we have fifteen in our graduate cohort each year. And so we get that the top sixty from that group of hundred twenty and they start as seniors slash first-year master students. So, the advantage of that is that, the first year is considered undergraduate tuition and then just their second of the masters as graduate tuition here. We have some overlap between the bachelors, the senior year group and the first year masters. So for example, one of the classes is a second BI class - data analytics in kind of a capstone - for just the bachelor students; then they have some more of the business classes. So, I think they have operations and ethics, supply chain - I can't remember exactly what are other business classes in their senior year. But then, for master students; in their first year, they have again that share class; second business intelligence class; they have an advanced security class; they have an enterprise infrastructure class; organisational behavior with other graduate school students in the business school and; they've rearranged a few things I can't remember, might be supply chain. Then in winter term - when they start taking electives - and they have a few other required classes. So, like they take my user experience design class the second year and they take a capstone class second year. So, fall semester we kind of coordinated these two together. It is kind of preparing for their capstone then in coordination with my class, where we do kind of a ten milestone, design - but user testing all along the way; kind of planning UX class. And then winter term they build it out and about a hundred fifty hours per team member; they can have team up to three people. The other great thing is that in this master's program, we have a number of tracks. So. we actually have five tracks officially; so depending on your interest you can take your electives in these more narrow areas. So, for example if business analytics is kind of your thing, then we have extra statistics classes you take across campus; their capstone project is going to be statistics based, their you are gonna have some sort of data analytics capstone that you are gonna do If you want to be a developer, then you take the development elective. So, we have a data structures class, we have advanced database and other classes through the computer science department. If they like security; so they will take our main security class; they'll take our digital forensics class; they will take a class across campus on penetration testing - the capstone would be on a security topic. We also have a PhD prep program and this is actually fantastic, so if you're thinking you want a PhD: now we have a kind of intro class- intro to research in IS - it is very collaborative that we have the student in that class working with professors on research to get started, as well as explain what a life of an academic is. So, what we found from that is that we have a very low washout rate for our students, so we don't have a PhD program but the students from our program go onto a PhD - most of them finish. Because they already know what is expected of a PhD program and as a researching faculty members. And most of them have research record established even as masters student. So, they can have a hit at the beginning of their PhD program; we had a lot of success with those students. I will add regarding to new fifth track and it's on healthcare and in data science kind of integrated with couple of other departments on campus as well. So, those are our five emphases in the master's program and depending on your preference you can kind of customize your curriculum.

Right now, I've been involved in a lot of initiatives to get women into the program as department chair. But as also the only woman in my department recruiting... Mostly it's just counteracting down the stereotypes that, women don't belong in tech. So, I especially encouraged the women that you do belong, you could do well in this area.