Mark DuBois is the Executive Director of Web Professionals. Mark assumed this role in 2016. Web Professionals is over 20 years old and focuses on both practicing and aspiring professionals. We offer certification, education, and community. We are a member supported not for profit.
Mark is a retired professor who has been working with web technologies for over 25 years. He created the first accredited degree in web systems in the world. He created the first accredited certificate in rich Internet application development. As a professor, he created over 21 classes (16 week semester long) on many aspects of web design, development, and server administration.
Mark served as the co-chair of the education task force of the Web Standards project. He has spoken internationally on many aspects of web design and development (including giving a full day seminar on best practices at the 17th International WWW conference in Beijing).
He runs a national web design and development competition (held every June in Louisville) under the auspices of SkillsUSA. Mark has also helped with WorldSkills web design competitions in Sao Paulo (2015) and Abu Dhabi (2017). He has personally supervised and been involved in over 35 state, national, and international web design competitions.