Biography: Mark has been teaching full time at ICC for the past 8 years (part time for the 15 years prior to that). Before coming to ICC, he worked in a number of roles in business, industry, and state government for 2.5+ decades (working in a number of roles from web designer and developer to applications manager to operations manager to security administrator to systems programmer and so forth). He has worked with Internet technologies since the mid-1980’s (even ran his own bulletin board system prior to the WWW). Mark created his first web page in December, 1992 (it no longer exists).

He holds a number of web related certifications including: WOW Certified Professional Web Designer, WOW Certified Professional Web Developer, and WOW Certified Professional Webmaster.

Mark was inducted into the Web Professional Hall of Fame (World Organization of Webmasters) in November, 2006. He was a winner of the WOW 2004 Distinguished Web Professional award. He is presently chair of the WOW Advisory Board (2006 – 2007 term) and serves as the WOW Director of Education.

He has been working with XML technologies since 2000. He teaches a number of classes dealing with web technologies. These include courses dealing with server side scripting, client side scripting and rich Internet applications and web application security.

Mark was instrumental in establishing the ICC web curriculum (second oldest in the United States). He also established the first certificate program in rich Internet applications in the world at Illinois Central College. ICC presently offers an Associates degree in web technology and certificates in Web Design, Web Development, Web Server Administration, e-Commerce, and rich Internet application development.

Contact: mdubois@icc.edu