Sandra Gail Motley, is a U.S. Army veteran, and founder of Purculate International, a boutique tech company located in Arlington, Virginia.

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Purculate is the fulfillment of her lifelong dream of business ownership. With pride, she has taken every opportunity to share the excitement of building the company while raising her children:  Douglas Jordan, Harrison Frank, and Olivia Mone't Grant who were ages 16, 13, and 10 years old at the time.  She has spoken privately and publicly about the business on the east and west coasts such as Techweek, City Councils, Boards of Commissioners, Chamber of Commerce events and other venues. She has spoken with government officials, i.e., governors, mayors, legislators, educational institutions such as the U.S. Board of Education along with their local state affiliates, individual schools, colleges, universities, and research institutes (private and government funded). Inspired by the arts, she ensured museums like the Smithsonian Institute (and others across country) as well as the Library of Congress and others knew about the company, her children, and most importantly, the value of their services to support creativity and research.

 

She routinely shares news, updates, and information of the sometimes-overwhelming journey of business building with her beloved family members (Motleys and Hairstons) which is book-worthy of successes, trials, tribulations, and speechless events they can attest to. As a result, over the years, she met and have maintained communications with various federal, state, local, and county law enforcement agencies across the country and especially in the Washington DC, Georgetown, Rosslyn community where she is surrounded by the State Department, Homeland Security, and other multi-national corporations, which she has also visited.

 

​​Although she is well known regarding business development in her hometown of Danville, Virginia, she also informed friends and associates in metro Atlanta where she resided for over 20 years, Arlington (Rosslyn), Virginia, and Washington, DC as well as other places of residence through her military service, and former employers who prepared her for business and a career in the tech industry. Finally, it gives her great pleasure to share her business and vision, especially regarding the environment, with her military community at military bases (and those where her son Douglas Jordan Grant was stationed), PX, Commissaries, Pentagon staff, American Legion, Veteran Affairs, USO, VSOs, the U.S. Department of Energy sponsored "Solar Ready Vets" training program and the Solar Energy Decathalon for colleges and universities worldwide. Since these agencies offer solar installation and management training, her goal is to inspire veterans to pursue business ownership in the clean energy industry and technology. And, obtain adequate funding and resources for success!​​​​

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Ms. Motley began her formal education pursuing a business degree (BBA) with a concentration in entrepreneurship; however, completed her education in Psychology. After working with teams of healthcare professionals in the field of mental health, she transitioned into tech. In tech, she worked with diverse teams of functional and technical software development professionals on various projects for over a decade. Her projects ranged from, native ideation conceived on the back of a napkin, to installation and upgrade of commercial out-of-the box solutions, to bolt-on custom solutions to support specialized internal business processes that varied in scale, complexity, and time. She gained valuable experience managing projects through the software development lifecycle using project management standards, from analysis and design through development, testing, change control, production, and production support with required resources. The Georgia Institute of Technology funded her formal training as an IT Software Development Project Manager, along with other related tech training in the field. The experience of participating in the software development process inspired her to pursue business in the industry with her unique vision.

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Her children grew up in the tech environment and culture with many days spent in the office, especially during late evenings monitoring bug fixes and other performance issues after deployment of software into production. She shared the tech experience with them through many tech events including techweek, robotics, software development summer camp programs for youth, business, science and engineering camps over summers, and spending the day at Google's Vencie California location. Three (3) of her children are currently employed at Data Centers in Georgia: Bischellya Janell Garland and Douglas Jordan Grant of Peachtree City, Georgia, and Harrison Frank Grant of Riverdale, Georgia. Olivia Mone't Grant, the youngest spent many days in conference rooms with business executives supporting Ms. Motley. After meeting the interim CEO of Yellow Pages and watching her mom point out potential opportunities in tech for the company, her experience at Google with other tech professionals and other events, she informed her mom of her interest in tech and becoming CEO one day. She took classes in computer science and programming (Phython), however, as CEO she decided to pursue an MBA instead. 

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In her spare time, Ms. Motley enjoys city hiking exploring urban architecture, surrounded by art at museums and her love of French impressionist MONET and others. Most of all, she enjoyed writing "Jana the Jaguar" series with her daughter, Olivia Mone't Grant while she wrote "The Naughty Little Princess" series.​

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Ms. Motley resides at Riverplace West, 1111 Arlington Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia.

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