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The Early Years Mary originally hails from Erie, PA where she spent the first 23 cold and snowy years of her life. Erie rivals only Buffalo in the annual snowfall category. 180" + per year of snow is not unusual. Mary managed to escape to southern PA and the Nittany Valley where she attended Penn State University in the late 70's. Mary had some wonderful times at Happy Valley and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare.
First Real Job Returning to Erie after college, Mary landed her ideal job at the Greater Erie Community Action Agency as a grant writer. This was a great first professional position and Mary was fortunate to have a wonderful mentor at the agency. Mary had several successes in obtaining grants for federal aid for the Area Agency on Aging, Head Start and the Boys and Girls Club.

Unfortunately, at that time Reganomics was starting to hit and social service agencies were feeling the pinch. The planning staff at the agency was being dramatically cut and after 2 years Mary's job was being eliminated.
Moving On Tired of being cold and snowy, Mary took a chance and moved to Fort Wayne, IN. where she got a new position as a Computer Operator with the local phone company. While Fort Wayne didn't get nearly the snow Erie did, it was a lot colder!! While there Mary met her future husband (of 25 years) Mike. From that point, Mary's personal and professional life whizzed by. Mary and Mike were blessed with 2 sons (Kyle and Mac now 16 and 12).

Career Advancement Professionally Mary's career in Information Technology continued to progress and she was promoted several times over the 15 years she was in Fort Wayne. Mary held several programming and development positions and eventually moved into management where she moved from entry level Supervision to lead Manager for the implementation of a new customer billing system.

The Big Move In 1993 opportunity knocked again and Mary and family moved to Tampa, Fl. to take advantage of a promotional opportunity. The move turned out to be a great experience for the whole family. Plus, it doesn't snow in Tampa and never gets below 32 (a big plus as far as Mary is concerned) For the last 3 years Mary has assumed responsibility for management of the Planning and Architecture team. Her focus has been on setting compute standards and managing the compute infrastructure in all the Data Centers.
Second Career At this point in her 27 year career in IT, Mary is looking forward to her retirement in a few years and is setting her sites on a second career. With an IT background, focusing on Adult education rooted in online learning should be the best of both worlds.

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