Senior Technical Consultant and COLLADA Specialist
Mark Barnes joined Expert Support in 2008 as a technical consultant, primarily to continue his work as the principal designer and specification editor of COLLADA, a digital asset standard for 3D interactive content. Mark is the chairman for the COLLADA working group at The Khronos Group open standards consortium where he manages the activities and operations of its international members to further the global adoption of COLLADA.
Mark is also coauthor (with Rémi Arnaud) of the book "COLLADA: Sailing the Gulf of 3D Digital Content Creation." For the past several years he has given presentations about COLLADA design and features at various conferences including Siggraph 2004-2008, Eurographics 2005 and 2008, Imagina 2005, IGDA SF 2005, and GDC 2005 and 2009.
Prior to joining Expert Support, Mark was a Graphics Architect at Intel Corporation and also worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment US R&D where he was the COLLADA Project Lead.
Mark's experience and knowledge in the fields of visual simulation, database tools, distributed processing, and real-time graphics began in earnest in 1988 while working as a systems programmer at the NASA Ames Research Center Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) laboratory. Mark (aka Marcus) is well known for his work on the OpenFlight tools and specification while at MultiGen-Paradigm Inc. in the 1990's.
Mark began programming over 30 years ago while in high school. His immediate fascination with computers and software has carried with him ever since. Quickly mastering several languages and systems, Mark has been working almost continuously in the industry as a programmer, systems analyst, and software engineer for over 2 decades.
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