Mark Males

From Mark's comments in the MTX 500 Facebook group and his LinkedIn Profile

Mark Males

[Mark] "joined Memotech in the time when we were building the add on packs for the ZX81. My job was fixing the packs that weren't working with my soldering iron and oscilloscope. We had a quota to fix every day and the work was manic.

When the MTX series was being developed, Robert [Branton] and Steve [Marchant]asked me to create the software arm of Memotech, and that was where Continental was born. The offices were over the road from the main building and I took on Ed H[ollingshead] and Dave Fazackerley to get the software going. They concentrated on the games side of things and I wrote all the business software in Cobol.

As the MTX series were being built I worked with Brian Pritchard writing all the MTX manuals. I still have some of them in a cupboard somewhere. "

Mark described his post-Memotech career in an email to me in 2019 . . .

"After Memotech I worked in software development, but pretty quickly realised I could do more travelling as a Technical Writer, so travelled around Europe writing Technical manuals for various companies including Philips.   

While working in Switzerland I met my wife and had our first child there. We came back to England and I worked for Siemens for ten years before starting my own technical company specialising in drone cinematography and Google Street View technology.  "

Mark's career path, summarised from his LinkedIn Profile, is below :

Managing Director, Digital Moxie Ltd. UK, Jan 2017 – Present

SEO Manager, E Direct Ltd, UK, 2015 – 2018

Communications/IT Consultant, Self Employed, 2012 – 2015

Principal IT Consultant / Communications Manager, Siemens UK,  1999 – 2012

Technical Communications Manager, Xemics / Speed Electronic, Neuchatels, Switzerland, 1997 – 1999

Documentation and Training Manager, SITA, France, 1988 – 1997