Mark Johnson

Current

VP, Operations Engineering at Netflix
Founder and CEO at SportMetrika, Inc.

Past

Co-Founder & CTO at Fetch11
Data Analyst & Software Engineer at Danger, Inc.
Baseball Analyst at St. Louis Cardinals

Independent Consultant to Commissioner's Blue Ribbon Panel on Baseball Economics at Major League Baseball
Consulting Decision Engineer at Rapt, Inc.
Technical Yahoo at Yahoo!, Inc.
US National Team Triathlete at Triathlete (Self-employed)
Research Scientist at Stanford University
Research Engineer, Biological Systems Modeling at Entelos, Inc.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at U Minnesota
Research and Teaching Associate at Princeton University
Visiting Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Student Manager at Indiana University Men's Basketball Team

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Education

Princeton University
Indiana University
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Mark Johnson’s Summary

Mathematics in Industry.

Mark Johnson’s Specialties:

Decision Analysis; Data Mining; Software engineering; Mathematical Modeling.

Mark Johnson’s Experience

VP, Operations Engineering

Netflix

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

July 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

July 2005 - December 2006: Staff Software Engineer
December 2006 - October 2008: Director of Operations Algorithms
October 2008 - present: VP, Operations Engineering

Managing the Operations Software Engineering Team, responsible for all development aspects of Netflix's DVD delivery system.
Founder and CEO

SportMetrika, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

2003 — Present (6 years )

SportMetrika, Inc. is a sports management consulting company, providing services to members of the sports industry.
Co-Founder & CTO

Fetch11

(Online Media industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years )

Pet project to utilize Y! Developer Network + Affiliate Monetization + SEO to auto generate highly usable and highly monetizable segments of topical content.
Data Analyst & Software Engineer

Danger, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 2004 — July 2005 (8 months)

Data Operations and Analysis.
Baseball Analyst

St. Louis Cardinals

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Sports industry)

January 2004 — November 2004 (11 months)

Mathematical modeling of baseball decision making.
Independent Consultant to Commissioner's Blue Ribbon Panel on Baseball Economics

Major League Baseball

(Sports industry)

August 2003 — January 2004 (6 months)

Mathematical Modeling
Consulting Decision Engineer

Rapt, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2003 — July 2003 (4 months)

Contracted to help educate the company on internet advertising.
Technical Yahoo

Yahoo!, Inc.

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

November 1999 — April 2003 (3 years 6 months)

Technical Lead and Business Operations Analyst. Properties: Classifieds, Personals, Shopping. Projects: Data Mining, reporting and analysis. Business intelligence.
US National Team Triathlete
Triathlete (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Sports industry)

1995 — 2002 (7 years )

* Two-time member of US Amateur Long-Course Triathlon Team, 2001 and 2002.

* Two-time Ironman Finisher

* Sub 4:30 Half-Ironman
Research Scientist

Stanford University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Biotechnology industry)

March 1999 — October 1999 (8 months)

Worked with Luca Cavalli-Sforza in doing statistical analysis of Human Population Genetics.
Research Engineer, Biological Systems Modeling

Entelos, Inc.

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)

August 1998 — March 1999 (8 months)

Constructed mathematical models of the human immune system.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

U Minnesota

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

August 1997 — July 1998 (1 year )

Continued my PhD research in the computation and visualization of global bifurcations in chaotic dynamical systems.
Research and Teaching Associate

Princeton University

(Higher Education industry)

July 1993 — August 1997 (4 years 2 months)

* Typical Graduate Student stuff... teaching assistant for courses in differential equations, dynamical systems and chaos theory.
Visiting Scientist

Los Alamos National Laboratory

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

January 1995 — August 1995 (8 months)

Research in Nonlinear Dynamics
Student Manager

Indiana University Men's Basketball Team

(Sports industry)

1988 — 1992 (4 years )

* Varsity letter-winner

* Mentored by Coach Bob Knight

* Multiple Big-10 Championships

* Final-4 appearance

Mark Johnson’s Education

Princeton University

PhD , Applied and Computational Mathematics , August 1993 — March 1998

Advisor: Ioannis G. Kevrekidis;

Thesis title: Computer-Assisted Studies and Visualization of Nonlinear Phenomena: Two-dimensional Invariant Manifolds, Global Bifurcations, and Robustness of Global Attractors.
Indiana University

BS & MA , Computer Science & Mathematics , August 1988 — May 1993

Activities and Societies:

Student Manager, Indiana University Men's Basketball Team.
Mentor: Coach Bob Knight
Multiple Big-10 Championships, one final-4 appearance, Varsity Letter Winner.
Wawasee