Hi, I'm Mark.

I was born in Queensland, Australia, and lived there until I was 27 years old. I have two undergraduate degrees: a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics, and Bachelor of Arts in Japanese. Both are from The University of Queensland.

After graduation I worked for four years as an IT Consultant for a multi-national corporation. I had a great time for the first few years, even though I worked quite a few overtime hours. In fact, it wasn't until my working hours came to be 9-5 that I became really bored. I found my satisfaction level had more to do with the people around me, rather than the job I was doing. Having good people around can make any job fun. But, after 4 years, all my friends were working on out-of-town assignments, or had resigned, or had transferred to a different country.

So I too resigned, painted my house so I could sell it (the painting and the selling both taking longer than I expected), and ironically moved to a country where I had no friends.

My 18 months in Japan was fun. But living there without a job was very expensive.

Then I moved back to my parents' farm for a year, before finally obtaining a job back in civilisation. I now live and work on the Gold Coast.


Sharkit2me?
Shark Meat is rhyming slang for my name from the local drunk at the residential college I used to live at. A guy at work started using the phrase "shark-it-to-me", and I changed my email address to that to avoid spam. It worked.

Enjoy the site.