Mark founded Cyberpoint back in March 1995 when he realised how important the Internet was to become, and he has been fully vindicated in that confidence. Later that same month, Sir Tim Berners-Lee staged a two-day press event at CERN in Switzerland to introduce his concept of the World Wide Web to the world's media. This was effectively the date the web was officially launched and Mark was already creating web sites on a professional basis. In the years that have followed, Mark has spoken at conferences at home and abroad lecturing on web site development, and has prepared and delivered training courses on a variety of topics. He created the first-ever web sites for a large number of clients amongst them being the government of the Falkland Islands, the Adam Smith Institute, and the AEEU trade union, which would eventually become Unite. He also provided consultancy on web site development to a wide range of clients, and participated in meetings to establish the London chapter of ISOC, the Internet Society.

Mark was in the Royal Air Force when he first became involved with computers through the Open University in 1977 when he learned to program in BASIC. Three years later he was trained in computer fundamentals and machine coding early DEC computers. He saw service in the Falkland Islands shortly after the war in 1982 when he was in charge of a team of technicians maintaining vital communications equipment, and left the RAF in January 1985 to join Cray Research as a computer hardware engineer. Diagnosing and repairing faults on the world's most complex and powerful supercomputers was a challenge Mark relished as much as he enjoyed working with some of the most talented people in the computer industry. He rose to become an Engineer-in-Charge responsible for scheduling maintenance activity on Cray equipment at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and later for overseeing the installation of a multi-million pound Cray T3D system at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre. Mark's skills included machine code and assembly-level programming and diagnostics writing, interpreting system dumps in COS and Unicos, and, unusually, maintaining refrigeration equipment.

During this period, Mark became a member of Mensa and organised a number of events at Cray in Bracknell and at the Science Museum in London for Mensa members. He was appointed to supervise British Mensa's Special Interest Groups, a post he filled for ten years in total, taking participation up from 3,500 active members to over 12,000 in over one hundred different groups. Mark wrote the first SIGs Manual setting out all the rules and guidelines, and detailing all the processes related to running a group. It is still being updated and used. He was also appointed by Mensa's International Board of Directors as Chairman of the Licensing Committee, a post he continues to hold more than ten years later. In this role his committee provides advice to the IBD and various national Mensa committees on commercial use of the Mensa Trade Mark and recommending or approving commercial proposals. Mark was presented with a special achievement award by Mensa International in 1998 in recognition of his service to the Society.

Mark was an early user of the Internet while at Cray, starting with rudimentary email in the early Eighties and visiting some of the first web sites in the mid-Eighties. He was also an active participant on USENET newsgroups, cutting his teeth on rec.org.mensa in particular and framing his own rules of netiquette. This is experience that has stood him in good stead years later in writing and delivering courses and the consultancy for which he is an expert in the field. As Managing Director of Cyberpoint, Mark has turned his hand to many tasks as one would expect with a small company, including setting and meeting business and financial goals, but he has made a particular point of maintaining and developing his skills at web site design and creation. He was particularly keen to ensure his staff also continued to develop their skills by providing a structured career path. With his Cray background, Mark was able to install computer systems in his offices, including an SGI workstation used as a web development and server platform which he also administered.

Over the years, Mark has provided free or reduced-cost web site services and support and consultancy to a number of charitable causes, ranging from small local or regional groups to major national groups. More recently, Mark has been exploring business and social networking sites and developing strategies for their commercial exploitation. Foremost amongst these are Facebook, LinkedIn and Second Life.

Mark is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a Chartered IT Professional.