Summary
Mark Hamill is a seasoned IT consultant and retired federal technology leader with over three decades of public service and a decade of focused consulting experience. He led high-traffic, high-availability web and data services at the USGS—driving nearly tenfold traffic growth and launching modern water data web services—while managing both development and operations. Since retirement he has continued hands-on work with the phpBB community, authoring extensions and offering PHP/MySQL, WordPress, and forum services through phpbbservices.com. He also brings substantial teaching experience as an adjunct instructor in web development, JavaScript, SQL and PL/SQL at community colleges. Mark combines systems-level reliability engineering with practical application development and tutoring, making him well-suited for part-time consulting or adjunct teaching roles. Based in Northampton, MA, he pairs federal-scale program management with grassroots open-source contributions that keep his skills current.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
1999, M.S. Software Systems Engineering, 1999, M.S. Software Systems Engineering at George Mason University
1978, B.A. Communications, 1978, B.A. Communications at University of Central Florida