Mark Nair
Mark Nair
Coding
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Biography
B.A., M.A. Texas A&M University
Mark is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, a mentor for the Texas Tech Innovation Hub, a National Science Foundation iCorp mentor, and has an extensive patent portfolio on a variety of innovative technologies.
He’s a co-founder of Giant Atom Inc., Bicycle Guy Studios, MusicGram, and Oasis Microgrids. As president of Redigi, Inc, he built the world’s first used digital marketplace.
Mark has taught micro and macroeconomics, app development, and web development at the college level and won the faculty excellence award at Amarillo College in 2020.
Mark has also produced one of the Internet’s earliest and largest live streaming events for Nick Lachey and 98 Degrees, as well as producing innovative digital marketing campaigns for Willie Nelson, Stephen King, and many other well-known artists. He’s worked with Thomas Dolby and Headspace Labs on the design of early polyphonic ringtones. He has also worked with Nokia in Helsinki on content for their early digital smartphone prototypes as well as with Phillips Electronics in Eindhoven on smart audio waveform interpretation for digital compression and has worked with Quanta in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen, China to designing a new type of e-book reader based on dynamic LCD light sensitive displays.
Mr. Nair has been a member of the San Antonio Arts and Grants Commission, a board member of the Don Harrington Discovery Center, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Amarillo Adult Literacy Council, Panhandle 20/Twenty, Haven Health Clinics, the Amarillo Little Theater, Storybridge, the Humane Society, and Mariposa Community Land Trust.
Mark has been invited to speak for a variety of panels and institutions including: the National Association of Broadcasters, QuickTime Live, the Consumer Electronics Show, Texas Tech University, Rice University. He has spoken about music and interactivity at the South by Southwest conference, postmodern literature and art at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the abstraction of modern American literature and science at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and quantum mechanics at the Hong Kong science museum. He currently lives in Texas with his wife and three children. He enjoys languages and speaks German and Mandarin, as well as, sometimes, but just a tiny bit, English.
Courses: Coding