>> I was a finance major and I graduated in 2005.
Kind of fell into it so when I first left school I worked for Target Corporation for a year
and a half in their retail management program.
So pretty much learning how to run a store and how to manage the people within that
to execute the plans, which was really good coming out of college.
You take all that theory and make it practical.
And then from there I went to HSBC Bank and I was there for 4 years.
I was an assistant manager for operations.
So there I was also in their management program.
I worked with a lot of the embassies and consulates and learned a lot
about just different cultures and, you know, how they bank and it's very different from here
in the U.S. and how do you kind of have them understand how we do things here
and then help them meet their business needs as well.
And then the opportunity came to kind of build something from scratch
and I said I'll never get this chance ever in my career to design something the way I want it
and hire all of my own staff and that really intrigued me so I went over to Strayer.