Mary is a graduate of Renaissance High School in Detroit (where she was then Mary Sturkey) and has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She later went on to successfully complete the Associate Recording Engineer program at the Recording Institute of Detroit. Mary Lynne started FruitfulWorks, Inc. in 2002, after five years as a Quality Manager / Specialist at DaimlerChrysler. In addition to NewYorkGospel.com, Mary Lynne keeps busy with working in the family's web design business, co-parenting two children, working as an independent quality consultant, and teaching Sunday school at Tree of Life Bible Fellowship Church.