Mark Jason Dominus (陶敏修)

• Website: http://perl.plover.com/
• From: United States
• Organization: Plover Systems Co.

Mark is head of software engineering at the Penn Genomics Institute. He is the author of the book Higher-Order Perl.

Mark has been programming since 1977, and in Perl since 1992. He is an occasional contributor to the Perl core, and is the author of the Memoize, Text::Template, and Tie::File modules, and the perlreftut man page.

From 1999-2001 Mark was the managing editor of www.perl.com. He was a columnist for The Perl Journal for several years. Most of his articles for TPJ have been reprinted in Computer Science and Perl Programming: Best of the Perl Journal. Mark's other Perl-related articles have appeared in magazines such as Wired and IEEE Software.

Since 1998 Mark has been a professional Perl trainer. In addition to speaking at conferences like YAPC, he has given training courses for large companies and organizations, including Morgan Stanley, IBM, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and British Telecom.