Mark is currently serving CENTCOM through the discovery of innovative technology to meet both identified and potential future technical gaps. Before CENTCOM, Mark served as the Chief Technology Officer for Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT) beginning in 2019 with a focus on technologies supporting sensitive activities for the deployed SOF elements in the AOR. This was made possible due to Marks extensive knowledge of clandestine technologies as he directed the Technical Operations Division of SOCCENT for over ten years with one of the years spent in Industry working for Draper Laboratories in Cambridge, Mass.
Prior to his tenure at SOCCENT, Mark worked at USSOCOM within the Program Executive Office, Special Reconnaissance where his priority focus was the Hostile Forces Tagging Tracking and Locating Program with sixty-four deployed Field Service Representatives supporting both OIR and OEF. Mark is a retired US Army Special Forces NCO from 5th Special Forces Group with multiple rotations to both Afghanistan and Iraq prior to his retirement.
He is married to his wife Diane of 33 years with two daughters and is a Tampa native with many family members in and around the area.