Mark was born and raised in Colorado Springs and attended Palmer High School. He went to work in the roofing industry in 1979. Mark started his first roofing business in 1984. For the next 11 years, he worked in Southern Colorado.
After 1995, Mark worked in the Denver regional roofing market for the largest Duro-Last Master Elite Contractor in the Western U.S. He was partially responsible for helping this contractor achieve the Master Elite Certification for Quality with Duro-Last Roofing, Inc. Duro-Last inspects each roof installation and, among other criteria, the inspection score must be consistently 90+ points to count for the Master Elite Certification.
Mark has supervised the installation of over 1,000 commercial roofs and over 3,000,000 square feet of single-ply membrane roofing. In 2008, Mark founded his own company, Colorado Commercial Roofing, Inc.