Mark Petrovic

Current

Co-Founder at Taglets.org
Founder and President at HomoSuperiorus LLC

Past

Architect and Developer at Sun Microsystems
Vice President, Engineering at Oponia Networks
Vice President R&D at EarthLink, Inc.

Vice President, Network Services at EarthLink, Inc.
Senior Internet Architect, Operations at EarthLink, Inc
System Programmer, Operations at Sprint Corporation
AIN Engineer at Sprint Local Division
Software developer at dba Mark S. Petrovic
Visiting Scientist at IBM Research Division
Ph.D Physics at Oklahoma State Univ
Engineering Associate at AT&T Technology Systems

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Education

Oklahoma State University

Recommended

12 people have recommended Mark

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Mark Petrovic’s Summary

Dedicated senior executive, technologist, and entrepreneur, practiced in Internet core, Web 2.0, Voice 2.0, services operations, engineering, and management. Proven track record in building productive, results-oriented operational and research organizations. Regarded as leader, consensus builder, problem solver, mentor.

Mark Petrovic’s Specialties:

Operations, Java software development (J2SE, J2EE, Servlets, Restlets, ORM, Hibernate, MySQL), Internet product research and development, core iPhone development, Python and Google App Engine. Dr. Petrovic also has training and interest in bioinformatics.

Mark Petrovic’s Experience

Co-Founder

Taglets.org

(Internet industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

The stories of tagged things...
Founder and President

HomoSuperiorus LLC

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )

Software engineering and architectural services to the Internet industry.
Architect and Developer

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

Developer of mobile telephony platform applications.
Vice President, Engineering

Oponia Networks

(Internet industry)

December 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 1 month)

A peer-to-web startup. Responsible for specification, development, and operation of Java-based backend systems, including authentication and customer accounts persistence.
Vice President R&D

EarthLink, Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; elnk; Internet industry)

2000 — 2005 (5 years )

Oversaw and led senior engineering team in identifying technology trends out to 3 years for $1B company. Industry forecasts conveyed to CEO were used as input to prototype emerging services.
Vice President, Network Services

EarthLink, Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; elnk; Internet industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Directed nationwide dial and DSL network architecture and operation, including management of geographically-dispersed network engineering and security organizations.

Maintained operational excellence through challenging corporate merger.
Senior Internet Architect, Operations

EarthLink, Inc

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; elnk; Internet industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Responsible for design review of Unix-based production data center services of 300,000-customer national Internet service.
System Programmer, Operations

Sprint Corporation

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; s; Internet industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )

Key Operations and technical leader in build-out of Unix-based production data center services and best practices for national Internet service provider.

Hired as ﬁrst engineer in Operations. Forged an around-the-clock culture of operational excellence, dedication, accountability, and consummate teamwork in an intense, fast-paced startup environment.
AIN Engineer

Sprint Local Division

(Public Company; S; Telecommunications industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )

Tested consumer voice offerings as development engineer for Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) software services for Sprint Local Telephone Division.
Software developer

dba Mark S. Petrovic

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years )

Lab automation software, Sprint Local Telephone Division. 1993 - 1995

Inventory reclamation system, retail coatings industry.
Visiting Scientist

IBM Research Division

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ibm; Semiconductors industry)

1991 — 1993 (2 years )

Basic Research, Optical Properties of Condensed Matter
Ph.D Physics

Oklahoma State Univ

(Research industry)

1986 — 1990 (4 years )
Engineering Associate

AT&T Technology Systems

(Semiconductors industry)

1984 — 1986 (2 years )

Failure mode analysis, DRAMs. I discovered Unix and vi here, and have been forever changed and grateful.

Mark Petrovic’s Education

Oklahoma State University

Ph.D. , Physics

Additional Information

Mark Petrovic’s Websites:

Mark Petrovic’s Interests:

RF science and technology

Mark Petrovic’s Groups:

American Physical Society, American Radio Relay League, libjingle / SIP integration, JXTA Developers, NIST SIP developers, Southern California professional network, Grails Developers, Java developer, Smack developer, OnJava.com author, Jetty Users, Bighook alumni, Peter Leffkowitz graduates, Pasadena Entretec, KC Unix Users Group, St. Mary HS Graduates, Twine Beta Users