Mark has over 40 years of experience in software development and IT consulting. Specialties: Custom software development, web application and database development, WordPress, CodeIgniter, Java, Javascript, PHP, photography, video, computer graphics. Currently he is the owner of Mark Dahmke Photography, specializing in commercial and drone photography, video. FAA sUAS Remote Pilot certification.

Commercial and drone photography, video. Aerial site surveys, 2D maps and 3D models. FAA sUAS Remote Pilot certification. Member PPA. Through my LLC I also do website design, software development, IT consulting , video, technical writing and editing, 3D model design and 3D printing, book layout and publishing.

Chair of the Communications Committee, manager of website and member database.

I managed the member database, member portal and public-facing website for the International Association of Torch Clubs, and designed the member portal and database schema. I also provided IT support for directors and club officers.

I assisted during the transition period after we sold the business to Binary.net.

Information Analytics is a full service information technology company, providing web design and hosting, custom software and database development, ecommerce applications, embedded software development, dedicated and co-located hosting, project management and consulting. The company has a broad range of experience with both Windows and Linux application development. We sold the business to Layne Sup in 2015.

As a consultant to Aliant Communications and later for Alltel, I helped develop several information services including Navix, Aliant’s Internet access service, and a network of public Information Kiosks.

At PRC I assisted with database design and software development in the R&D Dept. I designed the first version of PRC Access which evolved into EasyView.

In 1979 I started a consulting business out of my dorm room and later provided consulting and software development services for many clients including several Nebraska state agencies and IBM, Professional Research Consultants of Omaha, a leading health care marketing research firm.

Circuit Cellar INK was a spin-off from Steve Ciarcia’s popular “Circuit Cellar” column in BYTE Magazine. I worked on several projects for Steve, including writing documenation for his IBM-PC clone motherboard and while simultaneously writing my book “The BYTE Guide to CP/M-86.”

Popular Computing was a sister publication to BYTE. I contributed to a monthly Telecomputing column in addition to writing reviews and other articles.

In 1977 while a sophomore at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, my first published article appeared in BYTE Magazine and in 1979 I was hired as a Consulting Editor at BYTE. McGraw-Hill published my first book “Microcomputer Operating Systems” in 1982, and my second and third books were published in 1983 and 1985. I worked at BYTE from 1980 to 1983 on a full-time basis. I wrote cover stories and product reviews of the first portable computers, including Compaq and Osborne.

Programmer, University of Nebraska Computing Network, Academic Computing Services

Co-op Engineering Student (Intern) at Nebraska Public Power District, Columbus, Nebraska.

Greater Nebraska Science and Engineering Fair (1976-present)

Government Access and Information Committee, City of Lincoln (2000-2002)

Member, Advisory Board, Hyde Memorial Observatory (2014-present)

Member, University of Nebraska CSE Industry Advisory Panel (2008-present)

Nebraska Governor’s Task Force on Telecommunications (1984)

The Prairie Astronomy Club: Fifty Years of Amateur Astronomy
Lulu, March, 2010

Website Administrator’s Survival Guide
Jerry Ablan and Scott Yanoff, et al
Sams, March 1996

Using Concurrent PC DOS
Byte Books, McGraw-Hill, January 1986

The BYTE Guide to CP/M-86
Byte Books, McGraw-Hill, January 1984

Microcomputer Operating Systems
BYTE Books, McGraw-Hill · Jan 1, 1982

The Osborne I
BYTE Magazine, June 1982
Product review.

The Compaq Computer
BYTE Magazine, January 1983
Product review and compatibility testing of the first IBM clone.

Tracking Soviet Television Satellites
Circuit Cellar INK Magazine, August 1989

“The Expanding World of Bill Rush,” LIFE Magazine, January, 1980, Fadiman, Anne.

“Future Trends in Personal Computing,” BYTE, April, 1981, Morgan,
Chris.

“Journey Out of Silence,” Media Publishing, 1986, Rush, William, ISBN
0-939644-51-7.

“Journey Out of Silence,” Second Edition, 2008, Rush, William, ISBN
978-1-4357-1497-7.

“Minspeak History,” Baker, Bruce

“User’s Column”, Pournelle, Jerry, BYTE, November, 1982, pg 410. (Book Review,  “Microcomputer Operating Systems”)

Synergist, 1980

Wikipedia: Speech Generating Device

Attended University of Nebraska -Lincoln, 1976-1980
Attended Platte Technical Community College, 1974-1976
David City High School, David City, Nebraska, Class of 1975

First Place in Engineering, International Science and Engineering Fair, 1975

First Place in Engineering and Top of Fair, Greater Nebraska Science and Engineering Fair, 1975

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