Mark Price

Experience

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  Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

  Oct 1999 - Mar 2001

  Senior Application Developer

  Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP) is an international law firm based in San Francisco. As a Senior Developer I was responsible for mentoring junior developers as well as leading the development efforts on the firm's intranet and customized Windows applications.

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  Microsoft

  Apr 2001 - Feb 2003

  Software Engineer (Subject Matter Expert)

  I worked for Microsoft's Training and Certification group in Redmond, WA as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the teams that produced the following MOC courseware: * 2389: Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET* 2663: Programming with XML in the Microsoft .NET Framework* 2657: Programming Microsoft Access 2002

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  Self-employed

  May 2006 - Dec 2008

  Microsoft Certified Trainer

  Provided developer training services to my clients in Europe and the US.

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  Paprika Ltd

  Jan 2009 - Dec 2009

  Microsoft Certified Trainer

  Taught hundreds of developers how to program using Microsoft tools and technologies.

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  Firebrand Training

  Jun 2011 - Jun 2016

  Microsoft Certified Trainer

  I taught accelerated and expanded versions of Microsoft Official Courses (MOCs) on developer tools and technologies including Visual Studio 2015 and .NET Framework 4.6 (ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms, WPF, Universal Windows Apps, WCF, ADO.NET, LINQ, Entity Framework).

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  Episerver

  Jul 2016 - Apr 2021

  My goal is to educate programmers how to develop websites based on Episerver's Digital Marketing and Commerce platforms. I define, create, and deliver educational products at Episerver's training centres in London, Stockholm, and worldwide, as well as remotely online and at customer and partner locations. My goal is to educate programmers how to develop web sites based on Episerver's Digital Marketing and Commerce platforms. I deliver technical training courses at Episerver's training centres in London, Stockholm, and worldwide, as well as more customised courses at customer and partner locations.

  • Digital Learning Product Manager

    Jan 2019 - Apr 2021

  • Technical Trainer

    Jul 2016 - Dec 2018
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  Optimizely

  Apr 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Principal Trainer

    Jul 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Technical Trainer

    Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
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  Freelance

  Aug 2022 - now

  Author

  Author of C# 12 and .NET 8 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (8th edition) and Apps and Services with .NET 8 (2nd edition), published by Packt in late 2023. Tools and Skills for .NET 8 due to be published on July 30, 2024. C# 13 and .NET 9 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (9th edition) coming on November 12, 2024.