Meet the Team
Who is coming to my place? A brief introduction to our team!
Maria: Founder Certified Professional Organizer (CPO®), CEO
Maria has over 30 years of experience helping others get control of their homes and lives by helping them get the clutter out of their lives. Her approach with her clients is very holistic. She works with the client to help them figure out the physical, mental, and emotional causes of the clutter and how to deal with them. She teaches her clients how to make decisions on what to keep, sell, or donate so that they will be able to do this for themselves in the future. Even though this task can be stressful or sad, she tries to keep everyone as upbeat as possible. She stays available for her clients in case they have questions or just need new ideas or suggestions.
Maria has attended the FBI and Fairfax County Citizens Police Academies. She acts as a role player for the academy and officers in training scenarios, works the canteen, and is a former member of the Board of the Fairfax County Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association. She is a VIPS (Volunteer in Police Service) and teaches classes on clutter and hoarding at the Criminal Justice Academy as well as other venues. She is also a member of the Fairfax County Inter-Agency Hoarding Committee.
Scott: Co-Founder, CFO, CTO
As co-founder, Scott has been with Conquer the Clutter since 2011. Scott has been in the technology field for many years, starting as a programmer, moving to systems administrator, and ending up in management. He currently works behind the scenes at Conquer the Clutter as the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Outside of work, Scott enjoys cooking and is a former member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. The most interesting thing Scott has found at work is a treasure map that actually led to treasure.
Jamie: Operations Manager, Level 5 Organizer, CVOP®
Jamie has been with Conquer the Clutter since September 2011. Jamie was formerly a special education teacher in Fairfax County. After 10 years, she decided to continue her career in the organizing world because she has a passion for helping people. In her many years at Conquer the Clutter, she has come across countless peculiar things, the weirdest of which she claims to be the Vials full of human fingernails or what is known here at Conquer the Clutter as “Beer Surfing,” where Jamie came across a basement filled from floor to ceiling with empty beer cans. Outside of work, Jamie is a mother to Reagan and Ava and a son. Jamie also enjoys beekeeping, crafts, and crime shows. Jamie is unable to wink or cross her eyes.
Denise: Office Manager
Denise has been with Conquer the Clutter since February 2023. Denise was a management consultant and then an independent contractor for a large company for over 10 years. She is a mother of Erin and two sons, who enjoys crafts, watching movies, camping, and visiting family. As the office manager, Denise also enjoys the variety of tasks given to her, including organizing the office supply closet, where she once found bins full of thousands of sheet protectors.
Ava: Office Assistant, Organizing Assistant
Ava has been with Conquer the Clutter since April 2025. Her favorite part of her job is getting to work with her friends and family. Outside of Conquer the Clutter, Ava hosts tables at a restaurant and coaches youth ice hockey, and also enjoys hanging out with Lucy. Ava has been playing ice hockey for 10 years and plans to pursue a career in sports business.
Katherine: Level 1 Organizer
Katherine has been with Conquer the Clutter since July 2021. Outside of work, she is pursuing a degree in equine studies and biology. She says she enjoys the flexibility of her job and loves always having fun stories from work. The weirdest thing Katherine has found on a job is a human mustache, which was not attached to a human.
Pilar: Level 2 Organizer
Pilar has been with Conquer the Clutter since February 2019. Pilar is extremely hard-working and says her favorite part about work is that it’s an opportunity to connect and get to know someone, sometimes without ever speaking to them. Pilar enjoys speaking with elders and hearing their stories, but hates cheese unless it’s on pizza. Pilar says the most interesting thing she has found at work is hidden rooms. Pilars most memorable job at Conquer the Clutter was an estate which was lined with hundreds of high end luxury and designer items all new with tags, where she ended up sinding a singular hair tie worth 50 dollars.
Stephanie: Level 2 Organizer
Stephanie has been with Conquer the Clutter since February 2018. Stephanie is a military veteran who has also worked in retail, hospitality, and the medical fields. She is currently a nurse and a mother to Katherine and a son, who enjoys reading, cooking, and traveling. Stephanie was born in California, but has been a resident of 7 different states. The most interesting thing Stephanie has found at work is old fake fingernails and adult human teeth, while her favorite memory at work is jumping up and down on trash in a dumpster to make more room.
Adriana: Organizing Assistant
Adriana has been with Conquer the Clutter since April 2025. She is a hard worker who loves her job. Adriana also enjoys a wide range of hobbies such as painting, crochet, drawing, writing, and reading, but most of all, Minecraft. A fun fact about Adriana is that she has been shot by an arrow before. You have to wonder which of her 5 older siblings or 8 nieces and nephews did that.
Aidan: Organizing Assistant
Aidan has been with Conquer the Clutter since January 2025. He enjoys cooking and rock climbing outside of work, while also pursuing a career in nursing. During his time with Conquer the Clutter, he has especially enjoyed looking for coins and finding old bags of coins. Despite his apparent love of coins, the most interesting thing he has found at work is a large amount of two-dollar bills. A fun fact Aidan chose to share is that he wants to be mummified when he dies.
Beatrice: Organizing Assistant
Beatrice has been with Conquer the Clutter since July 2024. Beatrice is a fashion design student at the Savannah School of Art and Design who loves watching movies, going on walks, thrifting, and getting coffee with friends. Beatrice says the most interesting thing she has come across at work is a mustache wig, although nothing compares to her favorite story of walking outside at a job, to find Jamie waist deep in a rotted deck. ( Jamie was unharmed but quite angry.)
Carol: Organizing Assistant
Carol has been with Conquer the Clutter since August 2012. She was born in Michigan and moved to Virginia when she was 9 years old. Carol attended trade school and continued to study Accounting /Computer Science, where she later developed a career that has included Accounting, Accounting Software Integration, Testing, and Training.
Danny: Organizing Assistant
Danny has been with Conquer the Clutter since September 2024. Danny claims the best part about working at Conquer the Clutter is the people who work here. The work culture is very supportive and calm Danny says. The most interesting thing Danny has found on a job is magazines that came out the week of September 11th 2001. Danny’s favorite story is about a suspected raccoon hiding in a house. Although it was never caught, Danny loved imagining the raccoon hiding upstairs, sneaking down for snacks, and then retreating. In the end, Danny likes to think the raccoon eventually left the house . Outside of work Danny enjoys crocheting.
Erin: Organizing Assistant
Erin has been with Conquer the Clutter since February 2023. Outside of work, she really enjoys crafting and gaming, and also enjoys getting out into nature. When working, Erin’s favorite part is the team dynamic, she says it is always fun and makes working easier. Erin once worked in a house where they would occasionally find minions in random places. It was like finding easter eggs, she says. A fun act about Erin, when she was in the 5th grade, her joke was told by Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.
Ethan: Organizing Assistant
Ethan has been with Conquer the Clutter since May 2025. In his off time, Ethan enjoys acting and working towards a career in acting. Ethan’s favorite part of work is chatting with his coworkers during work and breaks. The most interesting thing he has come across at work is a Beanie Babies encyclopedia, and his favorite experience has to be packing up old movies for an estate; he found the titles very amusing and bizarre. e.g., Evil Nurse, Slasher Saturday, Evil Vampire.
Gracie: Organizing Assistant
Gracie has been with Conquer the Clutter since June 2025. Gracie enjoys spending time with friends, family, and pets, specifically her cat named Jazz Boots.
Kathy: Organizing Assistant
Kathy has been with Conquer the Clutter since April 2025. Kathy is a mom to 4 amazing kids, and she loves to travel, read, and bake. Kathy’s favorite part of work is helping clients, and the most interesting thing she has found while doing so is a petrified, carved whale vertebra.
Laura: Organizing Assistant
Laura has been with Conquer the Clutter since April 2024. Laura is a mother of twins who play sports and keep her very active, and she is married to a pilot. Laura loves to read and travel, as well as working in an Arbonne wellness business for the last 12 years. She loves the flexibility of Conquer the Clutter, and the most interesting thing she has come across at work is someone who buys hundreds of books and never reads them.
Lucy: Organizing Assistant
Lucy has been with Conquer the Clutter since May 2025. Lucy is a pre-vet student at Penn State University. She finds helping people to be enjoyable and uplifting, and she enjoys the team chemistry of the company. In her free time, Lucy likes to play instruments, read, care for animals, and hang out with Ava.
Reagan: Organizing assistant
Reagan has been with Conquer the Clutter since June 2021. Outside of Conquer The Clutter, Reagan enjoys rock climbing and also works at a rock climbing gym as a route setter. Reagan is currently studying aviation in an attempt to become a pilot. Reagan loves all bugs, except worms, and the most interesting thing she’s found at work is 51 firearms and a katana in the ceiling.
Vivien: Organizing Assistant
Vivien has been with Conquer the Clutter since May 2024. Vivien says her favorite part about working at Conquer the clutter is getting to see the client’s space change form before and after, knowing how much relief and joy it will bring them. Her favorite C the C experience is getting to have pizza party lunches on long work days and getting to talk with her coworkers. Outside of work Vivien is a student at Virginia Tech and loves to listen to music, go outside and hike, and spend time with her cats. Vivien was a girl scout from kindergarten through her senior year of highschool, and she was also born on halloween.