Brief Work Background

Alumz.com - Founder - free alumni and family reunion sites
Ragester - CoFounder - news and information powered by the community
DrTango / HispaniCare - CTO - spanish technology services
nPorta - Founder, President, and CTO - travel technology developer
US Idea - Founder - a venture technology company
MedCareers - MedCareers - CTO - medical career center that was partially owned by WebMD.
Shadowboxer - President
Cox Communications - Senior Consulting Developer
Intellinet - Senior Consulting Developer
Bellsouth.net - Lead Web Developer
Georgia Pacific - Developer
Microbilt - Product Manager
Atlanta Legal Aid Society - Data Systems and Resources Specialist
Commercial Projects - Nova Corporation, J&C Nationwide, Atlanta Casualty, Crescent Mortgage, and SafeSystems
Personal Projects - Webbieworld, UNIVAR, SteelStudio, MarketCentral, and MarkBot

Media References
This will give you some insight into some of my projects over the years.

- nPorta's Palm VII app given 5 stars (out of 5) by Palm and Tucows. Dec. 2000

- "Pretty cool if you are feeling information overload... a site that filters it out for you." Project Cool Sighting of the Day

- Webbieworld selected Cool Site of the Day, March 1999.

- "Don't just look at the great interface at Today's Sighting. Look at the underlying technologies too." Project Cool Sighting of the Day, Glenn Davis, August 11, 1998 (about the Shadowboxer site)

- Shadowboxer highlighted in "Three Companies, big and small, seek success on the Net" an article that appeared in The Atlanta Business Journal, September 3, 1998.

- Highlighted in "Weaving the Web" an article that appeared in The Business Journal of San Jose, March 30, 1998 (http://www.amcity.com/sanjose/stories/033098/focus1.html).

- 4 Stars - Excite Reviews - "Slick, cutting-edge site for an Atlanta outfit that offers business consulting services and specializes in VRML, Shockwave and other fancy things you can use to enhance your Web site."

- CNET - Best of the Web - Highlighted on the television program (1996)

- Netscape Innovators Showcase for Navigator (for VRML worlds in 1996)

- MarketCentral was highlighted in SGI's VRML world gallery (1996)

- "Mark and Joel of SteelStudio have jumped into the VRML design game with a vengeance. Unlike a lot of VRML developers who are building tools and helping to write the VRML specification, Shadowboxer is designing worlds for commercial sites. From the examples on their home page, they more than know what they are doing."
YAHOO! Wild Web Rides IDG Books

- "A small design company doing some of the most interesting VRML work on the web is SteelStudio… The company's main two VRML designers, Mark Connell and Joel Stephens, have done some other cool models, including a 3-D depiction of the Super Bowl stadium and a baseball stadium that includes Real Audio clips of famous baseball moments."
Beyond HTML by Richard Karpinski, Osbourne McGraw Hill

- "Netscape's Live3D connection shows off the best of the Web-based 3-D animation. It allows you to zoom around images, including the cool Duke's Diner."
PC World, August 1996

- "The virtual town hall is the brain child of Mark Connell, a soft-spoken Internet site designer from Atlanta, Georgia." (concerning the Poston for Congress campaign virtual town meetings)
The Wall Street Interactive Edition, August 27, 1996

- "VRML is making the web a most excellent place to be these days, and SteelStudio, an innovative creator of virtual worlds, is one of the top developers."
C|Net Best of the Web

- SteelStudio built Apollo, a "Lunar Module on the moon. The first 3D world to use RealAudio. "This world shows a cinematic use of Live3D, not just a world floating in space," as Paper Software's Greg Scallan, Senior Developer of WebFX, put it."
The best Netscape Live3D moving worlds, WebReview, February, 1996