Upon graduation from the University of Virginia in 2004, she was assigned as an Instructor, then Associate Professor, in the Department of Systems Engineering at West Point, New York. Her next assignment was at Fort Carson, Colorado, where she served as the 242nd Ordnance Battalion (EOD) Executive Officer with deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. She was then assigned to our Nation’s Capital to serve as the Aide-de-Camp to the Director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Defeat Organization. In 2010, she was selected for command of the Special Troops Battalion (STB) of the 3rd Sustainment Brigade, Fort Stewart, Georgia with deployment to Iraq in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn.