I started as a medical records clerk.
I help you skip the part where you figure it out alone.
I started in healthcare in 1992 as a medical records clerk at Kings County Hospital Center — part of NYC Health + Hospitals. I worked clinical floors as a Patient Care Technician. In 1999, with no tech degree and no obvious pathway, I enrolled in the WIA Workforce Investment Act program and trained for my A+ and MCSE. I broke into IT at IBM. In 2001 I relocated to Atlanta with everything starting over — went back to PCT work at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta for $12 an hour while I built toward healthcare IT. In 2002 I became a Meditech Security Analyst. By 2004 I was a Tech Systems Engineer and then Analyst at the same hospital I'd worked the clinical floors of two years earlier.
Every person I coach, I can find myself in their story. The clinician who wants to pivot into IT — that was me in 1999. The person who got knocked out of tech by life and had to start over — that was me after my daughter was born. The person working a survival job while trying to prove they belong in the room — that was me on those CHOA floors. I survived a brain aneurysm in 2018 and kept working. I built three companies while still doing the work every day. Career Amplified exists because I kept getting the same call: "How did you do it — and can you help me do it too?" Now I answer that question with a real framework and a real outcome.
The difference between my coaching and everyone else's is simple: I am the path you're looking for. Medical records clerk. Clinical PCT. WIA workforce program. IBM. Life happened. Back to PCT at $12/hour. Systems Engineer. Analyst. Epic Security across 15 major health systems. Three companies. I know what it takes because I've taken every step — including the step backward that became the way forward.
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