With more than 25 years of technology and 12 years of upstream experience, Ms. Avery has guided software products from concept through creation and beta testing to fully fledged deployment. In addition, she has led on-time, on-budget software implementations for billion-dollar companies. Ms. Avery has worked with clients across a range of industries, including upstream oil and gas and automotive.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Avery spent over eight years with Jonah Energy LLC in Denver, where she most recently served as Vice President of Information Technology & Systems. Her accomplishments at Jonah Energy include: bringing together diverse teams and consultants to create a corporate data warehouse; establishing plans for cloud migration, including proof of concept and calculated rollout; and enacting difficult leadership decisions to attain a board-mandated 25% budget reduction, all while maintaining excellent technology services.

Ms. Avery earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Arizona and a master’s degree in information systems from the University of Colorado (CU) Denver. She holds certifications in cybersecurity fundamentals from ISACA and in cybersecurity and information assurance from CU Denver Business School. She also sits on the CU Denver Information Systems Advisory Council.