Founder/Owner, Notation Software
Greater Seattle Area
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- Founder/Owner at Notation Software, Inc.
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- Program Manager, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) at Microsoft
- Program Manager, Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) at Microsoft
- Third Principal at Midisoft
- Project Manager at Intermetrics
- Director of Computer Department at Wake Forest University
- Programmer at Wake Forest University
- Education
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- North Carolina School of the Arts
- Northwestern University
- Wake Forest University
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Mark Walsen’s Summary
Founder/Owner of 15-year old Notation Software. Combines 30+ years of software development and project management experience, with depth of experience and training in music composition. Has created the music software market’s most advanced integration of MIDI and notation technology, and MIDI-to-notation transcription.
Mark Walsen’s Specialties:
Entrepreneurship, music notation software technology, musician-friendly user interface design, Windows/C++ development, API design, and technical writing.
Mark Walsen’s Experience
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Founder/Owner
Notation Software, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
July 1994 — Present (15 years 5 months)
Founded Notation Software, first conceived to deliver notation technology to other music software companies, such as Jump Music!. Created a freeware MidiNotate application in the early days of the Internet, which evolved into the current Notation Musician and Notation Composer products.
Notation Software's mission is to serve the creative needs of everyday musicians with notation-based software. -
Program Manager, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 1991 — June 1994 (3 years 1 month)
First program manager of the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) product, on Microsoft's Visual C++ team. MFC was the most popular C++ library for Windows application developers for more than 10 years, and is still widely used today. Responsible for product specification and coordination of MFC team (development, testing, documentation) and schedule.
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Program Manager, Windows Software Development Kit (SDK)
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
October 1988 — June 1991 (2 years 9 months)
First program manager of the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK), on Microsoft's early 40-member 2.1 and 3.0 Windows teams. Raised the quality of the Windows SDK from about 1 to 2.5, on a 5 scale (these were the early days of Windows), by hand-holding the SDK documentation and sample code development effort, and writing first drafts of many sections of the Windows SDK documentation.
Was key contributor in conceptualizing Microsoft's Open Tools policy (including writing the first Microsoft paper on the subject), which invited competitors such as Borland to develop alternative Windows development tools. -
Third Principal
Midisoft
(Computer Software industry)
1988 — 1989 (1 year )
Designed and implemented the core notation technology for the first Midisoft Studio product, in trade for third ownership position in Midisoft, the most popular music software company for everyday musicians for many years.
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Project Manager
Intermetrics
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
June 1979 — October 1988 (9 years 5 months)
Designed and implemented Sun Workstation-hosted code browser for ADA language, used for NASA Space Shuttle code analysis. Project manager for a large chemical plant and refinery instrumentation information database contracted by Exxon.
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Director of Computer Department
Wake Forest University
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1977 — June 1979 (2 years 1 month)
Headed Wake Forest University's early computer department, which serviced the university's information systems and students with an HP3000 mini-computer.
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Programmer
Wake Forest University
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1975 — August 1976 (1 year 3 months)
Developed Wake Forest University's first registration system.
Mark Walsen’s Education
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North Carolina School of the Arts
Music Composition 1977 — 1979
Studied music composition under Dr. Robert Ward, Pulitzer Prize winning composer and Chancellor of the North Carolina School of Arts.
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Northwestern University
Masters , Economics , 1976 — 1977
Almost joined the ranks of theorists and academicians in Economics, but had more fun programming simulations of economies than pretending that math equations describing general equilibrium in the economy had any resemblance to reality.
- Activities and Societies:
- Full fellowship in doctoral program in Economics.
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Wake Forest University
B.S. , Mathematics and Economics , 1971 — 1975
- Activities and Societies:
- Magna Cum Laude. Honors in Mathematics. Rhodes Scholarship candidate. Held Carswell Scholarship, highest academic scholarship at WFU. Reputation as WFU's first student programmer. Active in WFU's Public Interest Research Group (PIRG).
Additional Information
Mark Walsen’s Interests:
Music composition, piano, sailing, archery.
Mark Walsen’s Groups:
Assoc. of Shareware Professionals (ASP). NAMM. MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA). Project Bar-B-Q. Washington Software Alliance (WSA). Educational Software Cooperative.
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Project Bar-B-Q -
Association of Shareware Professionals
Mark Walsen’s Contact Settings
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