Summary
Mark Nguyen is an experienced enterprise architect and software leader with 22+ years in hi-tech, currently serving as EA Sr. Advisor for Systems Design, Security & IAM at Southern California Edison. He combines hands-on engineering roots with strategic leadership—having led teams as TechLead, CTO, and Director—to deliver large-scale, $5M+ systems on time and on budget. His domain expertise centers on Identity and Access Management, governance, and cybersecurity, with practical implementations using Okta, SailPoint, Radiant Logic, SAML and Azure AD. He founded and runs MaxMav ITC, advising enterprises on architecture, security, cloud and integration, and has repeatedly taken startups from concept to revenue as a co-founder/CTO. Known for bridging business needs, budget realities, and technical execution, he excels at vendor selection, RFP representation, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment. Based in Irvine, he pairs an academic foundation in Information & Computer Science with a multidisciplinary background that includes biological sciences, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity beyond pure engineering.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Info & Computer Science; Biological Sciences, B.S., Info & Computer Science; Biological Sciences at University of California, Irvine
Vietnamese