About Mark
Mark is currently a Systems Software Engineering Specialist in HP's Personal Systems Group Innovation Program Office (PSG-IPO). Prior to joining HP's PSG-IPO in March of 2008, Mark worked as an Enterprise UNIX Systems Software Engineer in HP's Enterprise UNIX Division (EUD). While in EUD, his primary focus was on developing and maintaining mass storage interface drivers for the HP-UNIX (HP-UX) Operating System. Mark was a key engineer on several HP-UX mass storage related projects including the Ultra320 SCSI MPT interface driver (MPT), the Smart Array RAID interface driver (CISS), and the HP-UX I/O Infrastructure (GIO/WSIO).
Following the release of HP-UX 11.31, Mark joined HP's PSG-IPO where he now builds bleeding edge consumer oriented software products from concepts and ideas invented in HP Labs, and the PSG-IPO. As a web technologies expert and Web 3.0 visionary, his current focus is on building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using Java, PHP (LAMP), Perl, Python, AJAX, DHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Mark is an expert in more than seven programming languages, and has received fifteen HP eAwards for his technical and leadership contributions.
When not at HP, Mark is a part-time software consultant developing web applications and services for non-profits and small businesses. He is an avid Open-Source software user and contributor, and is a co-founder of the Gagawa Project on Google Code.
Mark enjoys exploring the great outdoors, traveling, spending time with his girlfriend, biking to work, playing softball, writing code, restoring and rebuilding old computer systems, and anything related to Web 2.0. Mark holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
The opinions expressed on this site are mine, and under no circumstances represent those of my current employer, or any organization I've had the pleasure of working for.
Following the release of HP-UX 11.31, Mark joined HP's PSG-IPO where he now builds bleeding edge consumer oriented software products from concepts and ideas invented in HP Labs, and the PSG-IPO. As a web technologies expert and Web 3.0 visionary, his current focus is on building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using Java, PHP (LAMP), Perl, Python, AJAX, DHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Mark is an expert in more than seven programming languages, and has received fifteen HP eAwards for his technical and leadership contributions.
When not at HP, Mark is a part-time software consultant developing web applications and services for non-profits and small businesses. He is an avid Open-Source software user and contributor, and is a co-founder of the Gagawa Project on Google Code.
Mark enjoys exploring the great outdoors, traveling, spending time with his girlfriend, biking to work, playing softball, writing code, restoring and rebuilding old computer systems, and anything related to Web 2.0. Mark holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
The opinions expressed on this site are mine, and under no circumstances represent those of my current employer, or any organization I've had the pleasure of working for.
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