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Mark is a highly skilled and experienced researcher, analyst, linguist, and journalist. He is also a former USA Army intelligence technician, senior telecom ops manager, former cloud, web app, and software pm and architect, senior business executive and entrepreneur, published author, writer, educator, focus group facilitator, humorist, musician, producer, publisher, life coach, and more.