Tell us your official title and about your role at CAMP.
So, my title just changed, it’s now Administrative Operations Coordinator, and I’m also the Residency Coordinator. Those two things together are pretty representative of how varied my days are.
On the admin side, I handle a lot of the back-office work that keeps things running. That includes submitting state reports to Colorado every week, managing all state communications, producing and organizing credentialing packets for our physicists, monitoring the CAMP Academy and CAMP office inboxes, and supporting the physicists with whatever special projects come up. I’m also in charge of most of our event coordination, so the holiday party, the annual camping trip, anything that gets the team together. Then on the residency side, I’m supporting both of CAMP’s residency programs.
Let’s start with credentialing. Why does it matter, and what goes into it?
Credentialing is one of the most time-consuming things I do, and it’s really important to get right. Our physicists are required to maintain a certain number of continuing education credits across different regulatory bodies. Mammography is the only imaging modality regulated at the federal level, so the requirements under MQSA are particularly specific. Physicists doing mammography safety work need to maintain 15 CE credits in that area and 75 total credits overall to keep their credentials current.
The regulatory bodies audit these packets, so accuracy matters. I put together and update those packets and make sure everything is in order. It’s detailed work, but it protects the physicists and our clients.
And the weekly state reports?
Every Friday I download all of the physicists’ equipment performance evaluation reports. These are the reports from their inspections of the machines at different facilities, showing that each piece of equipment passed its radiation safety checks. Each machine has its own inspection schedule depending on the modality. Dental machines might be checked every three years, but CT and mammography equipment need to be checked annually, and sometimes more often if there have been component replacements.
Once I download the reports, I check them for accuracy and then send them to the state one by one, because Colorado wants each report submitted in a separate email. During a busy month like March, I was doing this twice a week just to stay on top of it. Occasionally, you’re sending 50 emails in a sitting! We’re working on streamlining that process with the state, which will help a lot.
What does the residency coordinator piece look like?
CAMP has two residency programs getting off the ground. Kyle Woods is running the therapy physics residency and prefers to handle most of the administration himself, so my role there has mostly been scheduling. Renee Butler’s diagnostic physics residency will hopefully be approved soon and potentially start this summer, and I’ll be doing all of the back-office admin for that one. We’re going to be going over everything in the next couple of months, but I know it’ll involve documentation, meeting coordination, tracking coursework and feedback, and being the point person for the new resident when they have questions about where things go or who to contact.
You came to CAMP with a pretty different background. How did you end up here?
Most of my career was in banking and finance, about 13 years total. The biggest chunk of that was at T. Rowe Price, where I ended up as a 401k plan administrator. That’s where I really built my back-office admin foundation. Data entry, detailed documentation, and managing a lot of moving pieces was the daily life there.
After that, I shifted completely. I became a licensed esthetician for nine years and ran my own business for three years. That experience taught me a lot too, because running a small business means you’re handling scheduling, taxes, licensing, and figuring out the right tools for every part of the operations.
I started thinking about wrapping things up when COVID hit and estheticians in Colorado couldn’t practice for a couple of months. I’d also been dealing with a lot of issues from the physical demands of the work, so I decided to go ahead and make a change. I found the CAMP position on Indeed. At the time it was being hired as a scheduler, and I had scheduling experience from my spa and salon days, so I went for it.
Did you know anything about medical physics when you started?
Not at all. And honestly, that was part of what appealed to me! I’ve always loved learning new things, and the medical field has always interested me. When I saw the job, I thought it sounded fascinating.
I learned almost everything by asking questions and Googling. Renee Butler was a huge help, she’s an excellent teacher, and a lot of it was just learning by doing. I was literally Googling what a C-arm looks like, figuring out which hospital systems we covered, and understanding what an intraoral machine is. You just keep building on it.
What surprised you most about the field once you started learning it?
I had no idea this niche even existed. And then you start learning about it and think, of course, if someone’s getting a mammogram, someone has to be checking that equipment. But you don’t think about the fact that all of those machines, CT, dental X-ray, MRI, mammography, have to be regularly inspected and checked for safety, and that someone is responsible for making sure that’s all happening correctly and on schedule.
What also surprised me was how differently states handle radiation safety regulations. Colorado has really clear, thorough regulations and an extensive public website. Montana is a completely different picture. California is one of the most stringent states. It varies a lot, so the work looks a little different depending on where a physicist is working.
What’s your impression of CAMP’s culture from where you sit?
I thought working with physicists might feel a little intimidating, honestly. I was a little worried they’d be hard to relate to, but it’s the complete opposite. They have so many outside interests, and they’re all genuinely approachable. A lot of them are into things totally unrelated, like astronomy, and they’re just interesting people across the board.
But what I really want to say is that this is the first company I’ve worked for that actually means it when they talk about work-life balance. Finance said it constantly, but it was not the reality. Here, it is. When something is too much, that gets addressed. And even though we’re all remote, CAMP puts real effort into getting people together. The camping trip, the holiday party, for example, and kids who have been coming since they were little now know each other and have grown up together at these events. That continuity means something.
We also genuinely have long-term employees. People don’t come to CAMP and leave a year later. That’s not an accident.
CAMP has been growing fast. How does it look from where you are?
It’s been really positive, but it’s also kind of hard to plan for sometimes, because so much of it is word of mouth. One site hears how well things are going, and suddenly 50 more sites in the same region want to come on. That’s what happened in Montana. You can’t always anticipate that volume.
But I think the reason it keeps being a good thing is that CAMP has built a real reputation. When you earn that kind of trust, growth is something to be excited about, not afraid of. And as CAMP takes on more and more work across the Mountain West, we’re going to need everyone we can get. I feel like leadership is proactive about that, even when the niche nature of the field makes hiring a little harder than it might be in other industries.
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Last updated: April 2026
