Team
Tara
Prior to stepping into her entrepreneurial journey, Tara spent over a decade working in various corporate environments, ranging from financial planning and investments to medical offices, staffing agencies and restaurants. This broad experience has given her a unique perspective in developing and implementing simple yet highly effective organization systems for her clients.
Tara believes that work life balance is the rainbow unicorn. Life and work both need our 100% focus. The key is to manage your time and skills to give 100% to each at various parts of the day and week. Her passion is helping clients learn tools and strategies so they can spend quality time on the big rocks in their life and not on the sand.
Tara is one of only 350 Certified Professional Organizers in the world and a Certified Organizer Coach. She is a member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and NAPO’s Golden Circle.
Tara has been featured on Fox 45 Morning News and in Parenting Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, the Baltimore Sun, The Jewish Times, Carroll Magazine and The Capital newspapers. Tara is a frequent speaker on organizing and time management at various community, business and non-profit organizations.
Dawn
Dawn moved to Maryland from New York in 2011. She is married and has two girls. She was in the spa industry as an esthetician for 9 years before becoming a stay at home mom. She now uses ALL her organizing skills to manage her family and the lives of two teenagers! She is a very outdoorsy person who loves to take her dog hiking as many days a week as she can. She also loves to bring the outside in with her vast plant collection that continues to grow!
Dawn believes that no two people are the same and enjoys interacting with and getting to know what makes that person unique. She really enjoys helping people to create a space that makes sense for them and their individual needs. Dawn joined the No More Piles team in the summer of 2022.
Erika Vance
Erika Vance has spent the last few years as a stay at home parent. Her previous experience was in the fitness industry as a personal trainer and group exercise instructor for 20 years. She loves to be active and spends her free time hiking, refinishing furniture and other painting projects. Erika feels that the time she spent working with clients as a trainer has enabled her to be open minded about where people are in their lives and given her the ability to work with many varied personalities. She really enjoys creating organized spaces and finding out what works for each individual person and assisting them in completing a project. Erika joined the No More Piles team in the spring of 2022.
Sandy Hook
Sandy has lived in the Crownsville, Maryland area for the last 23 years. She previously lived in Northern California but she and her husband packed up and drove across the country to live here in 2000. She has two children who are 19 and 22. Sandy is very creative and loves to sketch and paint. Sandy loves that working for No More Piles enables her to see and work in a wide variety of places and with many different people. She finds it satisfying to see the job through from the beginning to the end. Sandy joined the No More Piles team in the summer of 2022 after previous experience as an esthetician and working in a court reporting firm.
Matt Worst
Matt has live in Maryland for three years after living in New Jersey his whole life. Before working with No More Piles he has had many different work experiences including photography, working behind the scenes in television and working as an electrician. His varied work experience and many hobbies enable him to bring a unique skill set to each organizing project. He finds that each day with No More Piles is a new adventure. He enjoys meeting new people and the problem solving that each new location brings. Matt finds much satisfaction in easing a client’s stress and helping them overcome what can seem to be an insurmountable situation. He joined the No More Piles team in the fall of 2021.
Susan Connelly
Susan hails from New Jersey originally but has lived in Maryland for the past 28 years. She is married and has three children.
After 18 years as a stay at home mom, Susan was thrilled to join the No More Piles team in December 2024.
Susan loves to travel, bike ride, take scenic walks and stand up paddleboard with her family. She is fueled by genuine connection and feels helping others is her sacred work.
Susan considers it a great privilege to be welcomed into people’s homes and entrusted with their most precious belongings and she loves working for a company that truly makes a positive difference in people’s lives.