Colleen obtained an Associates degree from Hilbert College and finished at Fredonia State. She worked for 17 years at Cliffstar Corporation in the food industry in Sales/Marketing/Project Management and as Executive Director of Customer Relations. Colleen entered the Human Resource field in 2005 with Grafco Corporation out of Baltimore, MD,  in the plastic bottle blow mold industry.  After  Grafco she went to Fieldbrook Foods, to head up their three ice cream manufacturing plants as their Director of Human Resources for eleven years. Colleen joined the ROME team in April of 2020 at the start of the pandemic as the Director of Human Resources.