Mark Illing Email & Phone Number

Currently supporting OFA at events as a volunteer coach supporting cycling, hiking, kayaking and other activities. Previously, I have provided alpine instruction to students with any form of disability as well as training other instructors in appropriate methods for adapting ski instruction. In March, 2000, I received my Level II Adaptive Certification from PSIA, which allows me to teach people with cognitive, physical and/or sensory impairments the thrills of downhill skiing.The Outdoors for All Foundation is a national leader and one of the largest nonprofit organizations providing year round instruction in outdoor recreation for people with physical, developmental, and sensory disabilities. Outdoors for All’s year round programming includes snowboarding, snowshoeing, cross country and downhill skiing, cycling, hiking, river rafting, canoeing and kayaking, day camps, water skiing, rock-climbing, camping and Custom Events.

Greater Seattle Area

Supporting cross-team communication and talent management for digital health startup Xealth! Furloughed March 2020.

Seattle, Wa

Primarily responsible for identifying mainstream technologies that can be migrated into the assistive technology community and working to make that happen.

Greater Seattle Area

Nuance purchased Swype in October 2011. Both T9 and Swype technologies evolved from ideas generated for people with disabilities. This role continues my work in enabling people with more efficient ways to communicate. In this roll, I find ways to address accessible markets that have applications in the mainstream market as well.

Providing a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. Some users achieve 60+ WPM on a touch screen device. http://swype.comFounder and early developer of Swype. Thoroughly enjoyed work with Cliff Kushler, making Swype an input technology others chose to copy but never quite match. Ultimately managed all engineering - platforms, linguistics QA and automated test. Most proud of the culture we fostered at Swype as it allowed us to attract such a talented team.

Manage the development of the industry standard T9 text entry software for mobile phones that enabled texting phenomenon. Tegic Communications purchased by AOL Dec 1999.Initially hired to rewrite the proof-of-concept code to fit within the constraints of early mobile phones. Ultimately grew the team and managed it, supporting most every mobile phone manufacturer in delivering the most ubiquitous software of the time.

See AOL

Body worn computing for augmented reality. Developed IR system to identify user position/orientation in environment and combine with personal head-up-display. Research project with Boeing to build custom wire bundles on generic wire boards presenting wire routing information virtually. Minimize system latency to tie virtual information to the real world.

Custom low cost visual systems for real-time vehicle simulators. Primarily responsible for the design and development of embedded software controlling custom graphics hardware for networked vehicle simulators. Grew the embedded team to support a wide number of vehicles and environments.These custom visual systems were used in DARPA SIMNET program, the first global realtime interactive networked cooperative virtual simulation for tactical team training. Also coordinated protocols and designs with the vehicle simulation teams to support interactions with the environment database to enable world-wide exercises that allowed fair fight and minimizing system latency.

See Delta Graphics

See Delta Graphics

See Delta Graphics