User:Lisa Theresa LoCascio

Lisa Theresa LoCascio (born November 11, 1964) is an American writer, blogger and a ERP business systems analyst with a fortune 500 computer company.

Life
Lisa was born in Tucson Arizona to immigrant parents, Frank LoCascio (Cataña, Sicily) and Eugenia Hidalgo LoCascio (Veracruz, Mexico). When Lisa was sixteen years of age, she lost both her parents for unrelated health reasons. At the age of 19 she adopted her only and younger brother, Numa LoCascio, who was 5 years her junior, supporting him through high school and his first 5 years of college, that he attended full time. Lisa worked full time, in order to support them both, primarily for large aerospace and defense contractors while, she attended college at night. She took night classes at Pima community college, University of Arizona and University of Phoenix; she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Information Systems. She was also taking accounting classes and soon after graduating, received her license as a Certified Public Accountant.

Career
Lisa started her professional career working for a local accounting firm performing financial statement review and compilations. In 1997 she accepted a position as a staff accountant for Raytheon Missile systems; after 4 years she transitioned into a business process specialist role for an internal ERP implementation. In 2006, she accepted an ERP systems and integration consulting position with IBM, where she traveled weekly. After meeting her husband David in 2007, she decided to take a local job for Apple, as a business systems analyst in Austin, Texas.

Personal Life
After a couple failed marriages Lisa finally met the love of her life, David, who is police officer and Special Operations detachment commander.