Mat Bevel Company sponsor Mary Artibee, a Technical Support Engineer & Manager with her husband Milt Mallory.
Mary Artibee is a Technical Support Engineer/Manager who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. Her fascination with math and computers was piqued in high school when one of her friend’s parents gave a few lessons in computer science to a handful of students who stayed after school to learn things like Boolean algebra and NAND, NOR and OR gates. She says, “I found it fascinating. Our country was abuzz with the space program and computers were the tools that were behind it all. I was intrigued that mere ones and zeros could lead to putting men on the moon.”
Mary attended Stanford University where she earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Mathematics. After graduation, the San Francisco Bay Area offered many opportunities to a newly minted mathematics graduate. Over the years, she worked for a number of terrific companies in the Silicon Valley including Sun Microsystems.
Mary Artibee lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
As part of the “Escape Velocity” campaign, Mary contributed during the matching gift challenge from Sonora Investment Management. Mary says, “I donated to put the “Escape Velocity” campaign into overdrive and support a wonderful opportunity to help kick-start a great STEAM curriculum.”
In her spare time, Mary enjoys sudoku/kenken/kakuro math and logic puzzles as well as crossword puzzles. She enjoys gardening, particularly the destruction part, i.e., pulling weeds, and reading science fiction and mysteries in her quiet time. Mary likes the “art house” cinemas, and she likes to take long walks with her husband Milt, who also worked in computer technology and has a vibrant creative side that he expresses in art and music.
Mary’s personal mission is to leave the world a better place. As she says, “Pay it forward. First, do no harm.” She sees her support of Mat Bevel Company as another way to create opportunities that will make the world a better place.
Mary believes that making the world a better place includes the ability to see our own humanity in each other, as well as allowing space for each individual to be themselves, no matter their religion, sex, ethnicity, abilities.
In her own life, Mary encourages the next generation to work hard, play hard, help the next person coming along.
In supporting Mat Bevel Company and other organizations involved in art and youth education, Mary says, “I hope that at least one person will grow or find a new opportunity that they would not have had otherwise.”
Thank you for your support, Mary!