Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett has over 14 years of work experience in various roles related to technology and engineering. Their most recent position is as a Sr. Platform Engineer at DroneUp, where they are responsible for building an internal developer platform for software delivery and orchestration at scale. Prior to DroneUp, Mark worked as a Managing Partner and Principal Cloud Automation Engineer at The Pentad Group, LLC. Mark also founded their own consulting company called Systemward, which specializes in technology consulting services for system infrastructure, the Cloud, and operational security. Before that, Mark served as the Delivery Ecosystem Engineering Lead at greyshore. Mark began their career at PRA Group, where they held multiple roles, including Systems Engineer and Service Desk Analyst II. Mark also has experience working as a Service Desk Analyst II at TEKsystems and as a CSR and helpdesk technician at Cegedim Relationship Management and 5 Starr Services, respectively. Mark started their career as an Engineer Assistant at Mechdyne Corporation, where they gained experience in quality assurance testing, OS and hardware installation and troubleshooting, end-user support, network management, and cable-running.

Mark Bennett's education history is as follows:

From 2007 to 2009, Mark attended Tidewater Community College, but it is not specified if they obtained a degree or studied a specific field.

Mark also attended the Advanced Technology Center in Virginia, but no start or end years are provided.

Additionally, Mark attended Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia, but no start or end years are mentioned.

Mark later returned to Tidewater Community College in Virginia and earned an Associate's degree in Computer Science. However, the specific start and end years of this program are not provided.

In terms of certifications, Mark has obtained various qualifications throughout their career.

Mark became an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2021 Certified Associate in February 2022.

Mark earned the status of Twilio Platform Certified Partner in July 2021.

In December 2016, they obtained the ITIL Foundation certification from AXELOS Global Best Practice.

In April 2016, Mark became a Certified LANDesk Engineer through LANDESK Software.

Mark achieved the title of Enterprise Desktop Administrator in September 2014, as certified by Microsoft.

Mark holds the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate qualification, which they received in July 2014.

Mark also obtained the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows 7, Configuration certification in June 2014.

In September 2021, Mark earned the Digital Cloud Leader certification from Google.

Mark obtained the Foundation for Istio by Solo.io certification in June 2022.

Mark became a HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate in August 2021.

In September 2019, Mark acquired the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification from Amazon Web Services.

Mark obtained the title of Associate Cloud Engineer from Google in November 2018.

Mark has the CompTIA Security+ ce certification, which they obtained in September 2016.

There is also a mention of the MCSA: Windows 7 certification by Microsoft, but no specific information is provided about when this was obtained.