Mary's specialties are quite varied based on her prior professional experiences. Mary's two major specialties include business and technical writing and youth focused writing. Mary has many years of experience with technical documentation, creation of training manuals, how-to guides and data reports.
Mary's experience working as a librarian grew her love for youth literature. She specializes in creating content focused on parenting and youth interests. This includes blog posts, parenting articles, literature reviews, and writing her own short stories for children.
While these are Mary's major specialties, she also specializes in social media posts (including using effective keywords), nonfiction articles and medical documentation. Mary has experience in not only writing, but also proofing and editing.
Mary's main writing interests are parenting and youth pieces. She thoroughly enjoys blogging and creating social media posts that utilize creative and thorough hashtags and keywords. While Mary absolutely loves writing, she also enjoys editing and providing constructive feedback.
Aside from literature and writing, Mary enjoys spending time with her family and pets! She love being outdoors and enjoying all four seasons that New England offers. In the summer, she can be found at the beach with a good book or visiting local parks. In the fall, hiking with her dog and watching her children play field hockey and baseball. In the winter, visiting local libraries, indulging in seasonal treats and going bowling. In the spring, Mary likes to get back outside, mini golfing and gardening. Mary also enjoys watching action movies, studying history, traveling and following New England sports teams.
Mary was responsible for a technical writing repository at a large IT company for almost a decade. She was the final step before a technical document would get published. She has experience in IT documentation and presentations.
Mary worked as a Youth Librarian at a public library for many years. In this role, Mary wrote and shared short stories during story time. She was also the creator of newsletters, blog posts, social media posts and documentation. Mary enjoys youth literature and also loves writing, reading and blogging about parenting, families and children.
Mary worked as a Medical Records Coordinator and Student Supervisor for three years. In that time, Mary was responsible for keeping a repository of medical handouts for college aged patients. This included writing general documents that described an illness, symptoms, treatment and other pertinent information. Mary worked with a team to write and edit this type of documentation.
Mary worked with community youth and their parents for several years.She is well versed in parenting articles, parenting needs and parenting literature because of her work with the community.
Mary worked in the business industry for over 10 years and was the primary holder of the documentation library. This included editing, rewriting and providing feedback for writers.
Mary was part of a wellness team at the last big business that she worked at. The wellness team provided many self-help articles and advice including nutrition, fitness, mental health tips, stress relief, yoga and much more.
Mary worked closely with the Security team at her previous business position. She worked in fraud detection and ensured HIPPA privacy laws were always enforced. She attended numerous cyber security conferences and keeps up to date with the latest security threats.
Mary loves to travel and has created many blog posts and several written reviews regarding her travels.
As a librarian, Mary was the face of the community at many events and within the library. Building personal relationships with the community was very important. Mary blogged about healthy relationships (family, spousal, business).
Mary is a hobby gardener and is well researched in gardening techniques, plant life and more. She focuses mainly on the New England area but is open to learning and exploring other gardening locations.
Mary's experience with articles is very broad. She has worked in the medical field, IT and within the community. In all of these roles, Mary has edited articles for publication - both formal and informal. Mary has provided consistent feedback to the writers and has worked closely to ensure that the information within each article was accurate and sensitive to the audience.
Facebook posts are a very important way to connect with the community. Mary was responsible for Facebook posts for the local library during her four years there. The Facebook posts included creating events, status updates and posting pictures. This was especially important during the COVID pandemic shutdown. Families looked to Facebook for information on curbside pickup of materials.
Mary was responsible for presentations to small groups, boards and the whole business of over 100 people. Mary would mainly give her own presentations but would sometimes help others who needed help with public speaking. Presentations often included setting up a framework of simple talking points and then elaborating during the actual presentation.
Mary created numerous brochures at the public library. The brochures were guides for topics such as: setting up your iPad/Kindle, utilizing the library catalog, library hours and story times, databases available for public use and materials available for check out. The brochures were quick, simple guides for patrons to grab and go. They were published on bright paper.
Mary was responsible for creating, proofreading and editing various newsletters at a public library. The newsletters were a collaboration between teams. Newsletters included important community information and were sent out twice a month. Ensuring that everything was accurate, consistently aligned and sent out on time were some of Mary's responsibilities.
Mary was responsible for the public library's Youth Room blog. The blog was an important way to connect to the community. The blog outlined the library's community events such as story times, upcoming events and new book releases. The blog also included pictures along with the articles. The fun part about creating a blog for the library was that Mary was able to make the content personal and share personal experiences and thoughts.