The Dune5 Team

Mark Derman - Founder Director

Mark has been developing professionally for 16 years, and recreationally since his early teens. He is passionate about building amazing, elegant, robust works of software.

Mark is also passionate about his family, relationships, spirituality, windsurfing, music, surfing and the outdoors.

Mark and his wife, Caroline, and his sons Matthew and Ben, are based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Telephone: +27 (0) 83 4888777

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Prior Experience

Global Vision

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Mark guided the construction of a large Silverlight enterprise CRM product. In addition he was Global Vision's chief technology officer. (2008-2009)

SafariNow.com

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Mark co-created South Africa's leading online holiday accomodation booking portal. He honed his .NET web development experience and business skills as co-owner, technical director and systems creator at www.SafariNow.com. (1999-2008)

De Beers Technical Systems

Mark created and deployed 4 mine planning systems at several De Beers mines. (1997-1999)

Baker Jardine and Associates, London

Mark created a dongle based C++ software security system. (1996-1997)

Education

University of Cape Town - B.Sc (Mechanical Engineering)

Graduated with First Class Honours in 1992.