Denise has worked with numbers and people just about her entire working life. Whether in cost accounting, scheduling production for food productions plants, tax preparation and accounting for financial statements with a small tax accounting firm, or as office manager at Texas State University in the Department of Political Science, people and numbers have gone hand in hand. Managing people, making sure they get paid, have the supplies they need in order to do their jobs successfully, keeping order in budgets and providing administrative staff and student workers the opportunities and space they need in order to grow professionally and personally.

Regarding education, she earned a BBA with a Finance major in the early 80s and an MSA in accounting later in life. She has recently retired from her full-time position with the university but could not let it go completely. She is the CPM program’s part-time administrative support, again working to make sure speakers and suppliers are paid, and the behind-the-scenes paperwork is done allowing the faculty to concentrate on all of our CPM candidates’ successful completion of their programs.