She previously worked with Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville, AR. She has worked as a networking program director and systems analyst for Fayetteville Police Department, TN Code Academy programming instructor, tnAchieves scholars mentor, Quality Matters certified designer and course reviewer, and A.C.E.-certified forensic examiner. She received the 2012 Faculty of the Year award and multiple Good as Gold Faculty awards from Phi Theta Kappa. For two years she has worked with Nicewonger Foundation Summer Coding Camp teaching coding and networking to middle and high school students, as a writer for the Interim CSTA K–12 Computer Science Standards, Revised 2016, and as a Nicewonger Foundation mobile presenter. Julia’s research interests include cybersecurity, cybersecurity impacts on children, and NSX networks of the future.