For undergraduate and graduate school Amy attended the University of South Carolina. She has worked in both the public and private sector before landing at Duke Energy in Charlotte. She spent the first five years at Duke Energy in the Transmission Engineering Group where she used GIS to site substations and transmission lines. She spent six months in 2013 in a developmental opportunity within Grid Modernization in the Grid Concepts Group which lead to her current role today where she is the GIS Strategist for Real Estate Services in the Real Estate Strategy Group. She is the co-founder of a grassroots GIS Users Group at Duke and created and hosted Duke Energy’s Annual GIS Day Event now in its fourth year. She is also chair of a group within Duke Energy called Energetic Women. This group’s focus is on leadership development for women in nontraditional roles. She recently obtained her Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) License from the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors and just finished serving as President of the North Carolina ArcGIS Users Group.