Briefly:

Raised on Legos and robots, Mark switched career goals from astronaut to artist and experimented across disciplines from music, theater, photography and writing before discovering digital art and graphic design which scratched the both his analytic and creative itches.

Mark is still piecing together complicated creations with space-age tools and hasn't entirely "grown up" yet, but, since he still has to pay grown-up rent and taxes, he uses his prowess to create for Raincity Studios clients.

Factoids

Favorite City to Visit?

San Francisco

Favorite thing about living in Vancouver?

It's in Canada.

Why Drupal?

It's not Microsoft. No really, Drupal has grown as a platform and has brought us along with it into the big leagues. There isn't a better web-development platform we could pay money to use

Beverage of choice?

Gin and Tonic.

Where/when did you first get online?

Napster, art school, Toronto, 1999

Fictional character you'd like to have a beer with?

Data, Star Trek TNG

Website you actually go to often - for fun not work?

IGN.com

Hobby you hardly ever talk about?

Playing the ancient Chinese game of Go.

Favorite Raincity Studios project?

http://paircoach.com/ Really smooth process. Great clients, great design and collaboration from the Raincity team.

Fave dish (that you can actually cook)?

Achiote chicken tacos with queso fresco, Valentina hot sauce, roasted tomato salsa, chorizo refried black beans and handmade tortillas.

Raincity staffer most likely to win at Jeopardy?

Mark or Francis. No, Mark.

Favorite techie word/acronym?

Kludge

Fave "analog" tool?

Pencil

Another profession would you like to try?

Interior Decorating

Favorite artistic era/movement?

Bauhaus

Rather attend Ballet or Opera or Symphony?

Opera

Best concert ever?

Erik's band (at the time), Paul is Dead, playing the Raincity First Anniversary party

Co-worker who makes you laugh?

Erik

What do you "bring to the table" at Raincity?

Good Taste + Objectivity. Isn't that what Creative Directors are for?

Your best tech skill?

Master of Keyboard shorcuts

Country you want to visit that you've never been to?

Sweden

Where'd you go to school? Why?

Ontario College of Art and Design, to get away from the parents. BCIT's New Media CD-ROM and Web Development program, to get a job

Three words of advice to younger developers?

Ask, many, questions.

Fave Drupal module?

Pathauto

A fave Drupal site?

RaincityStudios.com (the newest one, always the newest one)

What do you collect?

Robots (his desk is still adorned with a fine collection of toys

Drupal module you want to build?

A Role-Playing Game (RPG) module, but someone is already doing it: http://drupalrpg.org/. Maybe I can help.