I grew up along the Gulf Coast, living in Corpus Christi and New Orleans before settling in Houston. The moves along the gulf were following opportunities in the oil and gas industry, as my dad was a Reliability Engineer for Shell before he moved into consulting. My mom began her career as a Chemist, and later became a Nurse. These days, my own family keeps me busy: I’m a mom of two, a wife, and a lover of dogs and a good glass of wine.
I grew up with a love for math and chemistry, but initially majored in Business when I started at Texas Tech University. By the end of my freshman year, I had completed my required math and science courses and realized those were the classes I enjoyed most. That realization led me to pursue a degree in Chemical Engineering.
After graduating from Texas Tech, I began my career in upstream oil and gas, supporting operations in the Eagle Ford Shale with production chemical treatment. In 2014, I moved into water treatment solutions in the commercial and industrial sector, providing scale and corrosion chemical treatment.
After five years in the field, my transition into mechanical integrity came in 2016 when I joined Pinnacle Reliability, where I supported fertilizer, midstream, and refinery clients through risk-based inspection program implementation as a Project Lead and later Senior Project Lead. I left Pinnacle in 2019, to join Add Energy where I focused on maintenance and reliability consulting, progressing through project management, operations leadership, and business development roles before becoming Managing Director.
I met the Cognascents team while I was still working at Add Energy when we partnered on a client’s integrity and maintenance project. I loved working with them because I trusted their work and appreciated their honesty about what they did well, their limitations, and where they could help most.
In 2024, after Add Energy was acquired and my career goals didn’t align with the new company’s direction, I joined the Cognascents team. Today, I work as Director of Business Development at Cognascents, and my role is simple – I help our clients find solutions to their problems across process safety, asset integrity, reliability, and process engineering.
I have never, ever considered myself a salesperson, but I enjoy listening, learning, problem solving, and building trustworthy relationships, which is why I’ve landed in business development. And I am proud of what I sell. Cognascents is not only a very technically talented team, but the degree in which honesty, integrity, and doing the right thing drives everything we do is why clients buy from us. We deeply care about doing good work, and in my role, I take great lengths with every client to make sure we deliver.