Mark L. Bennett
Education
Stanford University (evening classes)
, Physics 2001-09-01 - 2004-05-01
Cleveland Institute of Electronics (remote learning)
, EE 1992-06-01 - 1995-08-01
Northeastern University
, CS 1989-09-01 - 1991-05-01
Hesser Business College (Portsmouth, NH)
, CS 1987-09-01 - 1989-05-01
UNH: University of New Hampshire
, EE, CS, Computer Engineering 1985-09-01 - 1986-06-01
WPI: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
, EE, CS, Computer Engineering 1982-09-01 - 1985-05-01
Somersworth High School
HS, Math, Science, General 1978-01-01 - 1982-01-01Work Experience
Restoration Hardware Ltd.
2023-09-01 - 2024-02-01
Restoration Hardware Ltd.
Lucidworks
2012-11-01 - 2023-07-01
Lucidworks
Apple
2009-03-01 - 2012-11-01
Apple
New Idea Engineering, Inc.
1996-08-01 - 2012-11-01
New Idea Engineering, Inc.
Searchbutton.com
1998-06-01 - 2001-07-01
Searchbutton.com
Various
2000-01-01 - 2000-01-01
Various
Skills
Summary
Top Technical Skills: * Search Technology, for both Enterprise and E-Commerce * Python, Java (and many other programming languages) * Apache Solr (have used many other search engines) * Lucidworks Fusion * Platforms: Windows, Unix, Mac * Prototyping Systems * ChatGPT Business Skills: * Recruiting / Candidate technical interviews / hiring / firing * Team building / mentoring * Product Management (define features, priorities, etc) * Produced Marketing Collateral & website content * Estimates and written SOW (Statement of work, for customers with complex requirements) * Have reviewed contracts and Intellectual Property (I am NOT a lawyer) * Published author Prior to joining Lucid in 2012: (prev info from NIE PR material) Mr. Bennett co-founded New Idea Engineering, Inc. and was also the co-founder and CTO of Searchbutton, Inc. Prior to NIE and Searchbutton, Mr. Bennett served as technical support manager at Verity, Inc., where he was responsible for on-line and Internet support. He pioneered the company's first customer care CD. His experience also includes programming, senior technical support, engineering and database development positions at Access Technology and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Mr. Bennett attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of New Hampshire and Northeastern University. Specialties: Programming, technical customer interactions (support, consulting), product specification, Enterprise search software (Apache Solr, Verity, Ultraseek, Fulcrum, FAST, Lucene), Python, Java, SQL...
