Prior to joining PSU two years ago, Mark was general manager of Asian Operations for Credence Systems Corporation, a leading automated test equipment manufacturer. Before joining Credence he was vice-president of engineering at TSSI/Summit, the industry pioneer and leader in design-to-test software. He later served as vice-president of engineering at Mitron, a software startup focused on software for the efficient automation of printed circuit board manufacturing. He has held a variety of engineering and engineering management positions at Tektronix and startup Perq Systems and taught computer engineering at The University of Portland. He holds a B.S. in mathematics and computer science and an M.S. in computer engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University.