I am a managing member of a small governmental consulting firm in Tallahassee Florida. Until January 2011, I was Special Counsel to Senate President Jeff Atwater and Senate President Ken Pruitt. Prior to that, I worked for 16 years in Senate and House Appropriations and had 11 other years of experience in the legislative and executive branches of Florida government. I have also worked as a truck driver, learning to keep it between the lines; an emergency medical technician, learning to focus on the bleeding first; and a substitute teacher and child care worker, learning always to remember tomorrow.