Mark joined Oracle UK's consultancy team in 1990. Over the subsequent years to 2006 he worked in a mainly technical/functional capacity across sectors such as Corporate Banking, Utilities and Public Sector, solely on projects underpinned by Oracle technology. In 2006 he became a founding Director of Beyond Systems where he has honed the focus of the company to be one of enabling public sector customers to achieve excellence with Oracle BI products, especially when sourced from Oracle Cloud ERP and E-Business. His areas of interest are centered around Analytics, Data Visualization, FAW, BIP, OTBI, ODI and APEX, Spatial and ML. Through his leadership, Beyond have fully adopted the Oracle Cloud and have developed and sold a number of commerically available Oracle cloud based applications.Mark has presented at many joint Oracle/Beyond events as well as contributing his perspectives on the technical/strategic business usages of Oracle to various magazines, Outside of business. Mark has a First Class B.Sc.(Hons) in Information Systems and is an Oracle Certified Professional.