Fusing Business and Technology
History
Mark Satterfield was born in California, and raised in Miami, Florida where he still calls home. Mark started a computer solutions company in the early 1980s targeting small businesses that desired to automate their existing manual processes, focusing on manufacturing device control, inventory and resource planning, and office automation.In the late 1980s, Mark sold the assets of the business and moved to Tampa, Florida to complete his degree in engineering. After attaining a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering at the University of South Florida, Mark moved to Clearwater, Florida, working for national defense contractors in software, systems, and network engineering, and also taught at the community college level.
By the late 1990s, Mark joined forces with a "dot-com," focusing on structured manufacturing engineering and software process control. Mark also continued his educational pursuits by focusing on a Master's of Science in Computer Engineering with an emphasis in using artificial intelligence tools for developing systems models of environmental processes.
In the early 2000s,after watching the rise of the business and completing his educational plans, Mark started a sabbatical during which he became involved in little theater, studied theology, learned to sailboat race, and was active in community affairs. Mark was successful in plays and musicals, both on the stage and as a director.
As the sabbatical came to a close, Mark joined with several other like minded entrepreneurs and started a software and network centric computer solutions company.
Today, Mark is still active in community affairs, building homes with Habitat for Humanities, saving the manatees with the Parrot Heads, and cleaning the beaches we see every day.