She received a BS in Computer Science from USF and taught several semesters of computer science and math courses at USF. After leaving USF, Nancy went to work for the Department of Radiology at the UCSD, while also consulting on the side. Her lifelong goal to work for NASA was actualized when she accepted a position as Technical Higher Education Assistant at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View. While at NASA, she was inspired to pursue her Master's in Computer Science at USF, where she completed her thesis on analyzing the effectiveness of tags in blogs. Her research papers have been accepted to a number of conferences, including the World Wide Web conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.