Mark's Resume

BO.LT 2010-3 to present

San Francisco, USA

BOLT is a social page sharing service. I am the CTO and co-founder.

Features: robust HTML page cloning, storage and serving, on page editing, instant deployment to edge network, powerful search based interface.
Highly scalable distributed architecture based on Java, Spring, MySQL, Linux.
High performance edge network, with multiple production clusters around US.
Nimble team of 5 engineers (including 2 former CTOs, 1 Engineering Lead)

TribalID 2009-3 to 20010-2

San Francisco, USA

An exchange for custom products, written in Ruby on Rails.

Omniture 2008-1 to 2009-2

San Francisco, USA

Omniture (OMTR) allows clients to optimize their online business assets. Products include Web Analytics, onsite and offsite Testing and Targeting, and tools to manage Search Marketing. I work as the VP of Engineering for the Testing and Targeting division (formerly Offermatica). Test and Target in 2008:

Double revenue in first year after acquisition.
3-4 Billion requests a week (same architecture now does 25 Billion requests a week).
12 requests served in 150ms anywhere in the US (as measured from 12 US cities by Alertsite).
Cost of 0.13c per thousand mbox requests.
Distributed team with members in San Francisco, Minnesota, London and Moldova.

This product is now Adobe Test and Target.

Offermatica 2004-1 to 2007-12

San Francisco, USA

Offermatica built a software product that allowed clients to test and optimize the performance of their website. I was a founding member of Offermatica working as the CTO/VP of Engineering. Offermatica was purchased by Omniture in December of 2007 for $65 million.

Features: distributed profile store, high performance edge network, real time reports, rich HTTP request targeting, SaaS, multi-tenant infrastructure
Highly scalable architecture, based on Java, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, Linux.
Built with a small team of local engineers and created a larger offshore team in Eastern Europe from the ground up.

Fort Point 1999 to 2004-12

San Francisco & New York, USA

Fort Point was a technical consulting company that built high volume transactional web sites. Sites that I lead the construction of include:

Martha Stewart
Wedding registry functionality
Barclays Global
iShares (link courtesy of the waybackmachine)
BIP - intranet for BGI
Idea Forest (link courtesy of the waybackmachine)

Joann

Petstore.com (link courtesy of the waybackmachine)

Sites I helped build:

Gloss (link courtesy of the waybackmachine)
Eve (link courtesy of the waybackmachine)
Best Buy
Finish Line
Escore
Tavolo
Bluelight

Portal Software 1998

USA (worked offshore in Sydney, Australia)

I worked on various aspects of the companies online billing software, used by the likes of AOL and OzeMail. I worked as an offshore member in Australia and gained insights into the difficulties of running an offshore team.

General Resources 1993-1997

Taipei, Taiwan

Working as the Software Manager, I built:

A sophisticated multi-lingual keyboard for the companies line of Inverter products (written in C, ran on the dedicated hardware or Windows).
The software for the VSD3000 line of Inverters (three-phase induction motor controllers) based around the then new IGBT technology (written in C++ and Motorola 68000 assembler)

Sheldonberry 1991-1993

Würzberg, Germany

I wrote the OS from the ground up for a distributed embedded system based around the Transputer (written in C and Transputer assembler).

ADI 1989-1991

Perth, Western Australia

Things I worked on included:

All the embedded software on a digital radio modem (C and Z80 assembler).
Various pieces of a command and control system (Ada, lots of formal development processes and 60 engineers)

Gateway Farming Software various times 1984-1989,1999

Perth, Western Australia

I was a founding member of Gateway computers. The company worked on a wide range of software products for the farming industry. The most notable is software that allowed farmers to build a diary of activities by moving icons around an aerial photo of their farm.

Patents

Education

The thesis for my BE was an operating system that would load itself onto an arbitrary network of Transputers.

Other Stuff

An image storage system (designed to be recoverable after decades even if software is lost). (todo: package source code and link)
A make system built as a library for Python. (todo: package source code and link)
A simple clean way of writing OO code in C, adopted by a number of colleagues. (todo: outline and link)
A simple embedded OS for the 6800. (todo: find and link)
A bash like shell for the Amiga. (todo: find source and link)
UnixDirs on FredFish's disk 321 for the Amiga.
Sold my first program at 13 - A database in Basic on the Commodore Pet to keep records about livestock.

Experience

Patents

Education

Other Stuff