Education
Queen's University
B.Sc (Hons), Mathematics & Engineering, Control & Communications 1987-09-01 - 1991-04-01Work Experience
Twobrains
Current
Twobrains
Coactus
Current
Coactus
Coactus
2003-03-01 - 2024-08-01
Coactus
EBSCO Information Services
2020-03-01 - 2023-06-01
EBSCO Information Services
The Library.Link Network
2015-06-01 - 2023-06-01
The Library.Link Network
Zepheira
2009-11-01 - 2020-03-01
Zepheira
Day Software
2009-02-01 - 2009-11-01
Day Software
Smoke Labs
2008-05-01 - 2008-12-01
Smoke Labs
BlackBerry
2006-03-01 - 2006-09-01
BlackBerry
Nanometrics Inc.
2003-06-01 - 2004-08-01
Nanometrics Inc.
Skills
Summary
Mark is an experienced developer, architect, and entrepreneur, and has specialized in applying Web technology to solving Internet and Intranet scale problems since 1996. You might best know him as the first person to advocate for the use of the REST architectural style over SOAP/Web services starting in 2002. Currently enjoying retirement, but always available for consulting or other short term, part time gigs in his bailiwick. Interests and expertise; Software architecture, Web architecture, data architecture, REST, Internet scale distributed systems, wireless/mobile, protocols, linked data, LLM, AI, NLP