Mary Ellen Biery Email & Phone Number

Huntersville, NC, US

Raleigh, North Carolina (I Work Remotely Out Of Charlotte)

• Abrigo (formerly Sageworks, Banker's Toolbox and MainStreet Technologies/MST) is a leading technology provider of compliance, credit risk, lending and asset/liability management solutions that community financial.
• Senior strategist: Collaborate with marketing leadership, product/segment marketers and subject matter experts to develop content marketing strategy that boosts website traffic and drives qualified leads down the sales.
• Content manager: Develop and edit marketing content (whitepapers, blog posts, collateral, proprietary research projects). Monitor performance and provide insights to product/segment marketing managers and other writers.

Raleigh, NC (I Work Remotely Out Of Charlotte)

• Lead writer: Significantly boosted non-paid search and referral traffic as well as national and trade brand-building efforts by developing company blog posts, company contributor columns (on Forbes.com, Huffington Post.
• Editorial leadership: Reviewed others’ content for grammar, style, consistency in tone and relevance to customer channels. Guided new writers on content development. Managed blog calendar and developed style.

GoodWritingFast.com (freelance writing for the Web and print). Services included writing/editing website content, social media postings, select journalism projects, blog postings, newsletters, press releases, client letters, white papers, "ghost" writing. Specialty subject areas included corporate financial information, retailing, business news, investing.

• Primary responsibility for newswires’ international coverage of group of companies including The Home Depot, Lowe’s Cos., Best Buy, Williams-Sonoma, Blockbuster and Mattel; frequent contributor to The Wall Street.
• Scoured SEC filings and interviewed top executives, analysts, creditors and investors to generate exclusive insight into corporate strategies, mergers/acquisitions, new business and proxy fights. Used live blogs and.
• As the lone Dow Jones reporter between Atlanta and Washington, D.C., covered regional news, including speeches by Federal Reserve officials, as needed.

Covered consumer products, food and tobacco companies while colleague on leave. Jumped in to provide breaking news coverage of landmark tobacco lawsuits, the effects of rising commodity costs and restructurings.

Opened and operated one of Dow Jones Newswires' original regional bureaus, covering more than 150 Carolinas-based companies, regional economic and development news and regional industries such as textiles, furniture and tobacco.

Covered health care reform efforts, non-profit hospitals and health-care quality issues for evening daily newspaper (circulation about 45,000). Also covered Chesapeake Bay restoration and conservation efforts, fisheries management.

Covered politics, social services, land development and other county and local government issues for morning daily newspaper then owned by Knight-Ridder Newspapers (circulation about 25,000).

Master'S Degree, Journalism

Master'S Degree, Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree, English

Activities and Societies: Co-editor, student literary magazine. DJ and sales rep for student radio station. Strings Society. Pi Kappa.