Company History | Webster/Rochester | Finger Lakes

ShewTech Associates designs and implements web sites that have the right blend of technology, navigation, visual appeal, and relevant content to meet the goals of the businesses that own them. Our sites fit well with our customers’ resources and long-term strategy as well with their marketing efforts and plans.

We help businesses and nonprofits understand what it means to have a web site in their organizations. We teach our clients how to take full advantage of their sites without breaking the bank or consuming extraordinary amounts of their time.

Our values are:

• Customer First: Do what’s right for the customer. Keep the customer regularly informed of progress.
   
• Disciplined Creativity: Balance problem prevention with creative ideas. Project management discipline is important to creating value for the customer.
   
• Continuous Learning: Read widely and read well. Find experts and learn from them. Take at least one course a year that expands your view of the universe.
   
• Teamwork: Everyone has something to offer. The greater the diversity of opinion and point of view, the better.
   
• Roll With It: Change is the only constant. Embrace it.

Company History

ShewTech Associates began as a part-time endeavor in 1998 and has been in full-time operation since January 2000. The company founder and president, Mary Anne Shew, has spent her career making technology work for business in companies such as Kodak, GE, and Xerox. Her personal philosophy of learn something new every year opened this door to helping business owners improve their bottom line and customer service through web sites and other Internet services.

Mary Anne’s formal education includes a BA in math and an MBA, but she is a permanent student of life and business. She serves as president of the Rochester (NY) Chapter of NAWBO and vice-president and Publications Chair of the Western NY Chapter of PDMA, and volunteers for other organizations as well. She was twice president of the Rochester (NY) Professional Consultants Network. She mentors small businesses through the Rochester Business Alliance StartUp Resource Award program. She is an avid networker who loves to connect people and share information. She never leaves home without her business cards!

Mary Anne has been recognized with the Team Excellence and CIO Leadership Awards while working for Xerox as well as nomination for the 2001 and 2004 ATHENA Awards sponsored by the Women’s Council. As a result of Shew’s work on their web site, Broccolo Tree and Lawn Care won the 2000 Freeman L. Parr Award for Outstanding Communication Achievements in the Field of Commercial Arboriculture. She was a 2001, 2002, and 2004 Rochester Business Alliance Startup Resource Award recipient.

Through Business Vitality LLC, Mary Anne Shew also delivers human performance improvements for companies and individuals through creativity, inspiration, and leadership. She works closely with her clients to define what success looks like before starting, and she focuses on helping them achieve specific goals and results.

In her spare time, Mary Anne can be found either at her sewing machine creating quilt masterpieces or messing about with fabric at one of the greater Rochester area’s many lovely quilt shops.

Where in the World is Webster, NY?

For site visitors who may be wondering where Webster, NY is, ShewTech Associates is located in the Greater Rochester Metro area of beautiful upstate New York. This region is blessed with:

• Abundant natural resources (Lake Ontario, Finger Lakes, Genesee River, Erie Canal, parks)
• Soul-refreshing cultural attractions (RPO, MAG, Geva, Strong National Museum of Play, GCVM)
• Brain-expanding colleges and universities (UR, RIT, ESM, SJFC, Nazareth, RWC, Brockport, Geneseo, MCC)
• Dining (restaurants), entertainment (Seabreeze, Six Flags ) and sports (baseball, soccer, hockey, lacrosse) for every taste and budget
• Shopping (Eastview, Marketplace, Webster Towne Center)
• An industry-leading supermarket chain (you have to see a Wegmans to believe it)
• Not to mention the world’s best ice cream.

The Rochester economy is famous for the Big Three (Kodak, Xerox, B&L) who began and remain here. But the backbone of our resilient community is now the thousands of small- and medium-sized businesses representing virtually every industry. Manufacturing, telecommunications, biotechnology, alternative energy, printing/publishing, optics/imaging, and food/beverage are areas of major growth. These are complemented by the talents of thousands of consultants and small businesses (NAWBO, BBA, RHBA, SBC). Government and nonprofit organizations provide all kinds of resources to start-ups, high-growth enterprises, and established companies (GRE, COMIDA, HTR), as do dozens of associations, trade groups, and chambers.

If that weren’t already enough, within an hour’s drive is the second-largest wine region in the United States, the Finger Lakes. So-named because of their long, narrow shapes carved by receding glaciers eons ago, more than a dozen lakes provide the right growing conditions for a wide range of award-winning wines, with great places for water sports, camping, picnicing, and just relaxing.

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