Mary Elise Dedicke joined Kitware’s Business Development Team in January 2019 as a technical proposal writer. She develops commercialization strategies and proposal content for SBIR/STTR and other research and development opportunities, helping technical teams communicate complex innovations to government and commercial audiences.

Mary Elise holds a B.S. in Science Communication from Cornell University and an M.S. in Technical Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to joining Kitware, she held technical writing and editing roles at KeyBank, Bank of America, and Pitney Bowes (including its MapInfo software division), where she created user, reference, and product documentation for software applications.

An active member of the Society for Technical Communication from 1995 until its closure in 2025, she held several leadership roles during that time and continues to engage with the technical communication community as a speaker and contributor. In 2026, she presented “Documentation Thinking Beyond the Docs” at Write the Docs Portland, exploring how documentation practices can strengthen high-stakes proposal and commercialization narratives.