About the founder

Mary McAfoose (she/her) is a pragmatic problem-solver who is passionate about adapting program/project management best practices to deliver what a specific team needs. In September 2025, after 13 years of technical program/project management experience, Mary took a break and decided to launch the next chapter in her career by founding M3 Program Solutions, to reach additional teams and organizations with a more flexible approach.

With a background in Electrical Engineering, Mary’s career started as a project manager at Intel where she supervised electrical design, construction, and commissioning coordination while adhering to a fast-paced schedule.

From the cleanroom to data centers, Mary then worked at AWS driving large scale global Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS) initiatives. She spent four years scaling in-house data center controls and automation hardware and software tools from inception to global adoption. Mary additionally worked on the Retail side of Amazon, as a Technical Program Manager and Software Development Manager. She owned delivery against 4 Steam (CEO-level) goals to drive down negative customer experiences (fatals) on the Amazon.com websites worldwide.

After seven years at Amazon, Mary joined Varsity Tutors where she used the culmination of her program management best practices as the first Technical Program Manager at the company. Mary played a key leadership role as “right-hand” to the CTO and owned the delivery of cross-functional technical programs that impacted learners.

Mary is also passionate about contributing back to her Seattle community, and partnered with the West Seattle Junction Association (local Business Improvement Area) to set up their 2025 event planning tasks in a lightweight project management tool as well as vendor tracking forms for their 3-day Summer Fest. Mary additionally volunteers as part of the Duwamish Solidarity Group outreach team and is a member of Common Area Maintenance’s writing leadership team dedicated to cultivating a creative community in Seattle.