Mark Watts
Program Manager at Vectrus
United States
Summary
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RockstarMark Watts is a seasoned program manager with 14 years of experience leading satellite and terrestrial communications, IT, and information assurance programs, currently driving complex contracts and operations at Vectrus. He combines hands-on proposal writing, contract finance and staffing/BOE analysis with mission-focused team leadership that prioritizes ethics, mentorship, and measurable performance. Mark has a track record of delivering complete Technical, Management, and Cost volumes to grow programs and works closely with business development to translate customer needs into executable plans. Beyond program management, he contributes to open-source tooling around semantic web technologies, having improved SPARQL handling and parsers in the widely used RDFLib project—an indicator of his technical curiosity and attention to robust data handling.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
parserator10
rdf10
parser10
sparql10
python10
rdflib10
n39
serializer9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
RDFLib/rdflib
Oct 2015 - May 2022
RDFLib is a Python library for working with RDF, a simple yet powerful language for representing information.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 20 commits, 10 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the `rdflib` library by addressing issues related to SPARQL queries and updates. They enhanced the SPARQL store functionality, specifically focusing on timeout handling and query execution. Additionally, the user implemented improvements related to batching operations and handling of blank node contexts within the N-Triples and N-Quads parsers. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with the N3 serializer, and value conversions in Literals.
pythonpypisemantic-webrdf-xmlparser
mwatts15/xmms2_utils
Feb 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:4 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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