Her accounting travels before joining Canary Systems started in banking as a teller and worked her way to a branch manager. She then moved on to a nonprofit covering the front desk and doing payroll and medical billing. While at the nonprofit, she was able to achieve her Accounting degree from Franklin Pierce College in the evening program. She then started to work for a CPA firm in Meredith and became the office assistant doing financials and tax returns to include personal, partnerships, and corporations. Following this she became the office manager for an inn in Bridgewater doing the daily bookkeeping, month end financials, and coordinating the weddings and functions. She then moved on to the assistant manager at the country store in Bridgewater being a team leader and doing daily bookkeeping. Following this, she moved on to an accounting office in Plymouth doing monthly financials for a combination of 35 restaurants, condominiums and stores, as well as preparing 20 nonprofit tax returns with various due dates.