Undergraduate in Gerontology/Medical Technology (the study of Ageing and the Elderly) Masters in Accounting/Finance. Interned and then worked os a Legislative Assistant on Capital Hill for the only Lebanese (Christian) woman ever to serve in the US Congress. Worked for three start-up venture capital backed healthcare companies, first as VP of Operations (@ 28 years old), then over to Finance, Government Relations and Reimbursement. Started as Senior VP of $50Million in Rev healthcare company in 1991. Company went public in 1993, and eventually grew to over a Billion in Revenue and 25,000 employees in 46 US States.
We sold the company in 1999, to a much larger healthcare company, and I retired at age 42. Now renovating homes in Newport RI and Orlando Fla. And having much more fun.
I did my undergrand in determining the price of molecules of Beer and did a masters in figuring out ways to monetize on that knowledge. Started off as a consultant a company of Big Macs and then ran two processing franchises of brain power out of India. I recently left to bankrupt the lawyers (financially, morally it is innate for the lawyers) in this country. In 4 years, I plan to become a stay at home dad and watch my wife speak down to CEO's of Asset Management companies.
Graduated from Annapolis in 1977 with specialization in Arabic languages. Immediately assigned to Iran as special assistant to the undersecretary of defense and detached to US embassy in Tehran. On November 3, 1979, I entered Iraq and helped aggravate the dispute with Iran over the Shatt al Arab waterway. Upon my return to the US eight years later, I was assigned to an unnamed intelligence service to monitor communications coming out of Baghdad. After a brief stint in Kuwait where I was in charge of a special unit that torched the oil fields to keep that resource from Saddam, I returned home again. I can’t tell you what I did between then and 9/11.
Since 9/11, I have assumed the guise of a lawyer in Internet chat rooms and bulletin boards believed to be frequented by Muslim extremists. I have engaged them in dialogue in order to smoke out their true beliefs regarding Americans and American foreign policy. Those that I consider a clear and present danger to the US, I bring to the attention of others assigned to my unit who use all resources available to obtain their true identities and location. We advise other government agencies who issue visas (student visas and otherwise) of the undesirables we want kept out of our country. This is the most fun I have ever had at an assignment.
Anyone interested in questions re chartered accountancy in the UK, UK financial services industry and US/Europe MBA admissions process? feel free to give me a shout. I would try my best to help.
I used to work for URS back in 98 in their NYC office. It has been gobbling up engineering firms.
BTW, did you concentrate in Water Resources/Hydraulics? I am also civil engineer but have spread myself into everything civil engineering gets into. Sorta like jack of all trades master of none...
