My career as a Corporate Child Care Director for a hospital afforded me the opportunity to work with staff and parents as well as children. I also interacted with corporate partners at the hospital, making sure that we were providing a high-quality service to attract staff that most other hospitals had not even thought of doing. Hiring, counseling, training, working with a diverse group of people, planning and implementing systems were activities that I dealt with daily.

In the 1990’s I led the Child Care Center through the National Association for the Education of Young Children accreditation process. The process was very extensive and required making many changes over several years to the way we managed the center, trained childcare professionals, presented curriculum, provided guidance and carried out many other aspects of activities needed to provide a quality experience for the children.  I was honored by being nominated for director of the year in 2006. In 2007 the hospital outsourced our Center to a large multinational company, Bright Horizons. This company helped the Center to rise to an even higher level of competency by providing staff professional development to help them better understand early childhood and the education and activities they needed to provide for the children.

I was very blessed to be part of many families lives and privileged to help those families during their children’s early formative years.