>> I'm a lifetime Penn State student, to I started out at the Penn State Schuylkill campus,
which is in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania.
I came in, as I said, with about nine different business majors, nine different business majors.
So it wasn't until right before my junior year that I came up to State College University Park
that I decided upon the HPA degree.
So once I decided on the HPA degree, I liked it.
Like the college, the professors, everybody in the college was great.
The information that, you know, the information that we've been provided was very interesting.
So it kept my attention.
After I completed the degree, I did an internship.
Right before my senior year, I did an internship with the hospital
that I was born in in Jersey City.
So I must have done a great job because on my graduation day, I got offered a position there
in the same department that I interned in.
So I just worked as a data manager for about six years,
data manager quality improvement specialist for about six years, and then kind of got bored
in the area and I wanted to do a little bit more in terms of, you know, life growth,
professional growth and things of that nature.
So I applied to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and I got called back.
So it was the number one children's hospital in the world at the time, so it was like wow,
I'm about to go work at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
So I took that job.
And while I was there, well, right before I left Jersey City Medical Center,
I started my master's program, master's of health administration program here
at Penn State through their rural campus.