A lifelong singer, O'Terry has recorded 14 songs, receiving worldwide airplay for "The Gift" with Jim Brickman and David Corey, "You Are The Only One", with Charlie Farren, and "Silent Night" with Grace Kelly.

O'Terry graduated from the Connecticut School of Broadcasting in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, in October 1990 and secured an interview on November 2, 1990, at Magic 106.7/Boston for a temporary position as the secretary to a program director, Don Kelley.

After serving in that position for 8 weeks, she was officially hired as program assistant and public service director on January 23, 1991.O'Terry landed on the air on July 20, 1991, purely by accident when a part-time disc jockey fell asleep for the third time and was fired.

On December 28, 1992, she sent a memo to News Director Gay Vernon[3] about an idea she had for a public affairs program to be called Exceptional Women.

In 1999, O'Terry was promoted to program administrator of the Greater Boston Radio Group [5] and served temporarily as music director for WROR-FM.

She would realize the lifelong dream of playing her own songs on the radio between 2005 and 2012 with the recording and release of Jim Brickman's "The Gift" and "Valentine", a duet with Charlie Farren called "You Are The Only One," and a collaboration with jazz prodigy Grace Kelly on the Christmas classic, "Silent Night".

In March 2013 she traded her responsibilities as assistant program director for the chance to be on the air full-time and became the co-host of Morning Magic with The Exciting Mike Addams.

In June 2013, Addams announced his retirement, and O'Terry was teamed with a handful of people throughout the summer including David O'Leary, Sue Tabb, Ed McMann, Jaybeau Jones and Chris Shine.

[6] O'Terry plays the role of newscaster Candace Malone in the full-length independent feature film, CO2, which premiered October 23, 2010 and was produced by Wild Beagle Productions.

In 2014 she played the role of Pamela Fontaine, a newscaster in the film Lazarus Rising, starring Eric Roberts and Lenny Clarke.

[8] In 2020, O'Terry was contacted by producers at Bright Yellow Films and asked to recount her Exceptional Women interview from 1997 with Misha DeFonseca for an upcoming project on her life.