Mark Sanford

Experience

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  Macromedia

  Jun 1994 - Sept 2000

  Sr. Software Developer

  Lead developer on Shockwave Audio, one of the internet's first audio streaming platforms. Senior Software Engineer for Director. Windows Lead Developer for Babaloo, a digital audio production application.

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  Concept Four

  Jan 2009 - Apr 2015

  Principal

  Creator of Magic Mirror, a Facebook Application that lets people rate themselves on a quality, then invite their friends to anonymously rate them on that same quality.Creator of RideMap, a content management system for creating Google Maps based collections of polyline encoded travel routes, used by sites such as Pashnit.com.Creator of Centrifuge, a non-destructive image viewer that allows photos to be cropped, zoomed, tagged, and added to collection quickly.Creator of Escrow Mail, a dead man’s switch website that sends an email without regular responses from the sender.Created Drupal modules such as Node Collection, that allows end-users to easily create lists of articles and other content, and User Sync, that sets up a peer-to-peer live communications channel between two users. Show less

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  Language Snack

  Apr 2015 - Oct 2017

  Principal

  Creator of Language Exchange, a Drupal based wiki for websockets based remote interactive multi-user language learning content.Creator of Language Feed, that allows language learners to restructure third party language learning audio content into a customized podcast feed, with web based notes, and spaced repetition.

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  Verbal Earth

  Oct 2017 - now

  Founder

  Lead for the Verbal Earth Content Creation System for creating fun, verbally focused language learning content, that provides curriculum analytics to ensure an appropriate learning pace, and efficiently utilizes crowd sourced native speakers.Lead on Verbal Earth Mandarin Travel, which empowers visitors to China to explore by learning high impact Mandarin, with a priority on developing practical verbal skills.