Je m'appelle/Me llamo/My name is Mark and I grew up in the south bay area (Santa Clara, CA) and have been living in the greater Sacramento area for about 15 years. I am now living in Cameron Park (about 30mi east of Sacramento) with my wonderful wife Samantha (Beloved Samurai) who also happens to like beetles, buses, and ghias (just not as much as I do!). I have an A.A. in Design Tech (mech. and arch. and civil engineering combined) and an A.S. in Engineering from a 2yr school. I am currently employed by Aerojet General in Rancho Cordova, CA as a design engineer and have been there for almost 3 years. I plan on continuing my mechanical engineering education and also my career in aerospace engineering. Other stuff about me: I enjoy drawing (some of my prints are for sale on deviantart.com, same screen name as on here), building sacle models, RC cars, video games, tinkering in general, and my wife and I have a 2yr old Yorkshire Terrier named Yoshi and a 1yr old Bengal Tabby named Mowgli. I also took 4 years of French (don't remember half of it!) and am currently learning some Spanish.

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