An ex-pat New Yorker and keen traveller living in the UK for the past 30 years, Valerie has had a WordPress business for the past four. In her past life she was a Project Manager in the public sector, where her emphasis was on business improvement, cultural change and systems integration. Her background is business rather than technical, yet she has always loved IT solutions. The accessibility of WordPress gave her a great start and as she developed her skills, the perfect segue to her current life. She wraps a good deal of business consultancy around the website building process, which seems to be generally pretty well received!