Lisa Tershak:  

Hello Everyone - I hope you're all doing well :), Well I for one couldn't wait to see what was outside the Chicagoland area...so my post-HS focus was on relocating myself until I found what felt was "home". I discovered the beautiful setting of the Shawnee National Forest that surrounds SIU-C. I snagged my BA in Psychology there, and still leverage that knowledge today as a Customer Relations Manager with Oracle USA, covering the New York metro area. I get the pleasure of interfacing regularly with CIO's of the Fortune 1000, helping them find innovative ways to adopt our technologies and further their positions in the marketplace. After college I spent three years in St. Louis, moving on to join my then-spouse at The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School for his MBA in finance. The next logical step for us was...you got it...NYC, where I lasted six months before coming clean with myself that the manic pace of New York City was not where I was meant to be. So I returned to what I loved - the lushness of trees and rolling hills of the Washington DC area, which I had also been covering for Oracle since 1998. In 2000 I started my new life as a single gal living on Capitol Hill for a couple years, and shortly thereafter began my venture into real estate. Unfortunately 2005-7 brought a bit of hardship into my life when my ...Expand for more