In this position, Julia has successfully led her team in evaluating training/exercise solutions and conducting research for a variety of organizations, including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, individual military services, Canada 's Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, and the Center for Humanitarian Cooperation.

Julia offers her clients a unique combination of both technical abilities to understand the advanced information technology possibilities and analytical abilities to design and conduct analysis and experiments at assessing the effectiveness of these technologies. She has contributed to the Department of Defense's Training Transformation (T2) strategic and implementation plans and participated in a senior advisory group advising the Department of Homeland Security in the development and implementation of a national training and exercise strategy for domestic preparedness.

Julia got her start in the area of assessing training effectiveness while at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a federally funded research and development center that assists the United States government in addressing important national security issues. Prior to co-founding ThoughtLink in 1997, Julia worked as a research staff member at IDA, where she served as a project leader for numerous tasks in the areas of modeling and simulation and secured multiple new contracts. She led a project to collect simulation and subjective data from the Army's Virtual Training Program and worked in the development of large-scale expert systems for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

She is frequently called upon to speak at industry events, including the Serious Games Summit in Washington, DC . Additionally, Julia has been featured in numerous publications, including Government Computer News, Newsday, The Washington Post, and Washington Technology.

Julia is also known for her frequent (and unconscious) use of malapropisms (using the incorrect word or phrase). Luckily Marcy keeps a file of  some of her more amusing malapropisms