Meet Mark
Mark has several degrees underlining his skills as a BMUS from Canterbury, a graduate certificate in software and I.T from Lincoln university with a research scholarship in computer vision. He has since specialised in React, Backend Development, SQL and agile practices and is fluent in:
JavaScript
C#
SQL
HTML
And can dabble in python
Before joining Developers Institute
Mark mostly lived in NZ, however has seen a fair bit of the world when he was working on a cruise ship for a couple of years. He has also lived in the UK and the USA before returning to NZ, Christchurch to be precise, where he worked as a showband drummer. This was right when the second Christchurch earthquake hit. He ended up working red-zone security and had long hours of downtime during which revived his tech skills.
If you want to find out more about some of the cool projects he has worked on, take a glimpse at this list:
A risk management platform used by government, law enforcement agencies, banks and large enterprises world wide
Software to integrate with and configure walkie talkies, police cars etc Tait EnableSuite
Internal and public facing tools for multi billion dollar power company Eaton
Customer facing website for https://www.nemtek.co.za/
Programmatic marketing based on psychographic profile for Cognizance
A solution should be as simple as possible, but no simpler
There is more to Mark than code
If you want to get a good chat going with Mark, simply hit him up about his music career. He still plays the drums and attempts to up his game on bass on guitar. When that doesn’t hit the spot he cycles or longboards around town and trains in martial arts.
