Biography

Mark graduated with a first class honours degree in Computing Studies, followed by a Masters in Digital Systems and finally a Postgraduate Certificate of Education.  After six years of teaching and a spell at Morgan Stanley, he joined Psion Software in 1997 as a Technical Author working on SDK content and installation technologies.

After the formation of Symbian, Mark joined the Connectivity Engineering group, with sole responsibility for authoring, producing, delivering and supporting the Connectivity SDK.  He also wrote a chapter in Symbian's first book, Professional Symbian Programming. In 2001 Mark moved to the Kits team, becoming Technical Architect shortly afterwards, with the responsibility of introducing both the new Package Manager Kit format and subsequently the Component-Based Releases.

Mark transferred to the Symbian Developer Network in 2004, and is now responsible for the technical content on the SDN web site. He provides technical support to developers in the form of presentations, papers, books and tools and has given presentations in the USA, Brazil, Israel, India, the Philippines, Singapore, at 3GSM & at the Smartphone Shows.

Books

 Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones, Volume 3