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At the age of 24, she's got dual She's controller for , one of the fastest-growin g technology companies inthe St. Louis She's also a horse breeded and assistant business manager atand Farms, a 300-acre ranch outsidde Waterloo. "My main thing was to go out and have a careerr and besuccessful myself. The other thinb is the horses," Traiteur said. Traiteurf earned her bachelor's degree in business administration from Saint Louis University in threed years and immediately went to work for a fledgling technology company founded by Phil Horstmann in 1998 asPillaer Inc.
After four months running the company's administrative operations, Traiteur took on additional responsibilities as assistanttproject manager. Her first assignment in that role wasfor Ascent's largest client, Savvis Communications Six months later, she assumed the company'sx bookkeeping duties. As controller, Traiteur headas a three-person department that handlesall payroll, tax and generaol administrative functions for Ascent, which is expected to post more than $5 milliobn in revenue this year. Traiteur's department playd an instrumental role insustaining Ascent'z growth, Horstmann said. After a three-year growty rate of 133 percent, with revenude of more than $4.
6 million in Ascent ranked 14th onthe St. Louis Business Journal's 2003 list of Fastest-Growingh Private Companies. "From the day she Jamie has been instrumentalp in helping manage ourrapid growth," Horstmannj said. "She has an incredible work ethic anda down-to-eartyh attitude." Traiteur's department helps orchestrate one of the firm'xs core competencies -- the staffing, monitoring and managemeny of high-tech data hosting centers and technolog campuses. Ascent oversees 13 such facilities in eight cities across the Unitefd States for clients such as Savvixand Reuters.
Traiteur's staff develops annuapl operating budgets for each facility and validates andprocessezs $8 million in contracted services. But it's the horseas -- she calls them "my -- that are her passion. "I used to ride cuttinf horses, but when I got out and started working, I didn'ft have time to show any Traiteur said. "So, I turned my horsew into a brood mare." Traiteurd owns six horses, including three Americamn Quarter Horse Association Cutting Horssbrood mares. She trains the foals and selld them as yearlings forbetween $5,000p and $20,000 each. "I'm always trying to breefd the best ofthe best," she said.
"What I'm hopinyg is to have babies out there that I see in Every breeder's goal is to see theirf babies doing great." Traiteur, who is in the processs of reorganizing Ascent's accounting system, intends to pursue a master's degree in accountinfg from SLU next spring. In additionj to her dual careers, Traiteur is active in the American Quarter Horsee Association and the National CuttingHorse Association. She also is a foundinh member of a new civic group that is workingt tocreate Waterloo's Heritagwe Museum.