·         I graduated from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY with a B.S. in Business Management and have completed courses in Business Administration at the graduate level at the University of Connecticut.

·         I started in marketing research as an interviewer at a mall intercept and focus group facility while in college.

·         After graduation, in 1981, I became a Field Manager in the Field Department at Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc.

·         In 1984 I was hired by The Beaumont Organization, which specialized in large strategic research projects, as their Field Director.

·         In 1987 Marketing Corporation of America hired me as their Field Director. I was the Director of Operations in the Marketing Research Division at the time I left MCA in 1994 to start Cabrera Marketing Research Services.