Mark Dixon Email & Phone Number

California, United States

USA & Canada

Santa Clara, CA

• Championed and executed the design and development of a first-to-market companion mobile App that runs on smartphones and tablets
• Solely designed the App from the ground up by selecting relevant features from the desktop software for a first release and then building a roadmap for future development
• Designed all UI & UX elements of the App, emphasizing ease-of-use and intuitiveness, taking great care to adhere to published Human Interface Guideline standards
• Produced detailed mockups that concentrated on workflow that delivered results to the scientists
• Wrote essential software requirement documents that put into words what visual mockups cannot describe, including additional specifications of boundary conditions, platform coverage, and support
• Worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the developers on a daily basis. Laid out storyboard in Xcode for iOS platform development

Santa Clara, CA

• Provided leadership for products across a portfolio of on-market and new software solutions and developed product strategy, product definition, and positioning using software lifecycle management
• Produced targeted marketing collateral for specific customer segments that resulted in greater product awareness
• Regularly presented product announcements at meetings and major conferences
• Created content and architectural design for pages on the company website
• Benchmarked plans against competition and marketplace requirements
• Justified and prioritized requirements to fit into product modules and development timeframes

Santa Clara, CA

• Managed a C#/.NET software development team, located in California and India, to deliver a ground-up re-write of next-generation Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer application software
• Wrote detailed requirements for monthly Sprint work items in TFS, translating complex customer needs into actionable documentation for software engineers
• Designed UI & UX elements of the software, focusing on ease-of-use and intuitiveness but not compromising on complexity. Frequently presented radical changes that required cultural change
• Used natural leadership skills to direct and motivate the team towards challenging targets
• Educated new team members with domain knowledge, who then operated independently
• Evangelized new products, presenting the value proposition to management and customers

Palo Alto, CA

• Performed demonstrations to potential customers as pre-sale activity. This involved considerable preparation and communication with the sales team to regularly ensure orders of multi-million dollar contracts
• Worked closely with R&D on new hardware and software projects. Requirements, testing, and validation achieved superior quality products
• Repeat customers, who were frequently thought-leaders in their field, required immediate and innovative solutions to applications not available in standard software
• Company expert in the technology and science, used frequently to establish credibility with new customers

Loughborough, United Kingdom

• Performed complex and cutting-edge experiments using high-end instrumentation to solve unique molecular structure characterization problems for 150+ chemists and biochemists
• Programmed an acclaimed new user interface for the chemists on all open-access spectrometers using vendor’s scripting language, Tcl/Tk, Unix C shell scripts, and Perl, which resulted in its adoption in Varian’s.
• Maintained all the instruments, programmed and debugged the latest experiments, designed and wrote the data archiving utility using Unix C shell scripts
• Frequently presented new methods and techniques at major NMR conferences

Ph.D., Physical Organic Chemistry

B.Sc., Chemistry