Tracie has nine years of experience in corporate communication, having founded the internal communication department for Scottrade, Inc., a leading online investment firm, in 2000. As Scottrade’s Director of Portal and Business Applications and part of Scottrade’s senior management group, Tracie advises at the executive level on internal communication and directs Scottrade's intranet portal; business applications and enterprise 2.0 strategies. Tracie oversees the intranet portal design, integration, collaboration, content management and governance. Scottrade’s internal wiki application earned the firm a 2008 Intranet Innovation Award in an international contest sponsored by Step Two Designs, an intranet consulting firm.