Mark Triggs
Sole Proprietor at Mark S. Triggs Companies
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorMark Triggs is a Houston-based sole proprietor with over 30 years of field experience as an independent petroleum landman and 17 years contributing software engineering skills to open-source projects. He blends deep domain knowledge of energy land operations with practical full-stack development experience, notably upgrading the widely used Sakai learning platform dashboard and implementing its Public Announcement System to improve messaging and timezone handling. Comfortable switching between industry-focused land work and hands-on coding, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to problem solving. Known on GitHub as a meticulous typist, he quietly bridges legacy systems and modern libraries to reduce conflicts and streamline user-facing features.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
javas10
javascript10
jquery10
java10
html8
database-design7
oracle6
oracles6
mysql6
lms6
ed255195
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sakaiproject/sakai
Jun 2015 - Jan 2019
Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:109 commits, 64 PRs, 52 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on upgrading the Sakai dashboard, migrating it to jQuery 1.9.1 to align with the rest of the system and resolve library conflicts. They also implemented features for the "Public Announcement System," including banner messages, popup messages on login, and timezone checks. Further contributions included adding portal hooks to display relevant banners and popups, as well as refactoring acknowledgement types using an enum.
diversesakaivlefeature-richfreely
NYUeServ/NYUClasses-groupsync
Oct 2018 - Jul 2024
NYU Classes Groupsync daemon
Contributions:3 PRs, 68 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
daemonnyuasyncio
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