Mark Reese
Director, Federal Space at Element 84
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMark Reese is a Director leading Element 84’s Federal Space practice with 11 years of experience building enterprise-scale cloud and web products for NASA’s Earth Science programs. He combines a background in front-end engineering, UX design, and motion graphics with program-level product and project management—running SAFe release trains and coordinating multi-vendor stakeholders like NASA and Raytheon. Known as a fast learner and creative problem solver, he drives technical excellence, profitability, and team engagement across federal space projects. An active contributor to NASA’s Earthdata Search, he blends hands-on UI improvements with backend work to make complex scientific data accessible and usable. Based in Dallas with a BBA in Marketing, he brings unusual cross-discipline fluency between design, engineering, and program leadership.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Marketing, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Marketing at Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Github Skills (10)
html10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ruby-on-rails9
ui-design9
interface-design9
rails9
css9
user-interface9
data-format8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nasa/earthdata-search
Jul 2016 - Dec 2020
Earthdata Search is a web application developed by NASA EOSDIS to enable data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across EOSDIS' Earth Science data holdings.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 130 commits, 126 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mark's contributions primarily involve front-end development, with a focus on enhancing the user interface and user experience. They implemented new functionality within the `GranulesController` and `config/routes.rb` files. The user also made substantial changes to the `app/views/search/_granule_list.html.erb` and `app/views/search/index.html.erb` and `app/views/data_access/configure.html.erb` files, refining layout and styling elements, and updating user interface labels. They also contributed to backend download script generation.
visualizationearthdata-searchdata-discoveryeosdis
mreese84/jans-wp
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:25 pushes in 1 month
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