Formerly a teacher of chemistry and biochemistry at Smith College, a researcher at Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a software developer in computational chemistry at Molecular Simulations, Inc.

She has been involved in development of software tools for use both in teaching chemistry and in computer-aided drug design. At CSMT she has been a member of the development team that produced LoggerPro and has done work on Dynamic Analyzer as well. She is currently working on a Java-based ActiveX component tool for Vector Visualization which can be embedded in both LoggerPro and Dynamic Analyzer.