Mark has worked in the computing industry for more years than he cares to count. He is currently an engineer at Bank One, building and deploying UNIX servers.
In his spare time, he does Information Technology and Workplace Gender consulting services, including discount web hosting and e-mail hosting services.
He has taught Certified Internet Webmaster classes, and served as a Technical Manager for Avaya which is a spinoff from Lucent Technologies. He supported e-mail and the corporate directory. It was a pretty intense job. he is now retired from Avaya, and looking into a possible career change.
He's been using the Internet since 1973, and made some contributions to it in the early 1980s. He was one of the developers of Berkeley UNIX, which became the software platform for Sun Microsystems. He contributed to tools such as vi, termcap/terminfo, and curses.
He led Usenet in the early days and hold the dubious distinction of being the "ancient Internet scribe" of the oldest known surviving posting to Usenet. He is still involved with e-mail. In the mid 1980s he founded and ran a volunteer organization that let the have-nots who could not afford Internet access still get e-mail using the Internet user@domain syntax.
He is now known as Mary Ann Horton since 1998, and prefers to be addressed as "she".