Gilda graduated from the University of Central Florida with MIS and Computer Science degrees. She has over a decade of experience in Enterprise Information Technology for several Fortune 500 companies. She has specialized in database design, implementation, and optimization with an emphasis on high availability and business continuity. She has designed and performed security audits, database health checks, capacity planning, resource utilization analysis, and database migrations for organizations like IBM, Disney, IRS, US federal defense agencies, and many others.

She’s a big advocate of technical and leadership education in her community. She loves to travel and spend time with her family and friends and dance Latin music.