Welcome

Mark Pitman is an accomplished Software Architect, Programmer, Semi-Professional Tournament Poker player (not necessarily in that order). Having over 15 years of experience in the software industry, Pitman is knowledgeable in the current aspects of IT, including software methodologies, design patterns, computer languages, databases, and "best practices".

For the last 10+ years, Pitman has been writing software mostly using Java/J2EE with Oracle databases on a Unix platform in a corporate environment. Never one to rest with a limited number of tools/languages, Pitman also regularly uses Open Source tools such as: Postgresql, Eclipse, php, Apache, MySql, JBOSS, C/C++, Perl, Open LDAP, Bind, Postfix, Courier IMAP on a Linix distribution.

As for poker, you can find Pitman playing Omaha Hi/Low Split, Stud High/Low Split and No Limit Texas Hold em in California and Nevada. And he is always on the lookout for a regular home game, which are harder to find than one

Stuff to Check Out

Poker
Find out what I'm playing, how i'm running and poker related content here. You will find live updates via Twitter on tournament play. I'll keep my current tournament schedule current

Blog
From time to time things get written. When they do, you will find them in the blog section.

Poker Book Reviews
These still need to get ported over to the new system - for now this section will remain offline

Portfolio
Where i have assisted organizations big and small produce software.

Netflix
Check out what movies are being watched now, and which movies are in the queue. if your a friend and want to see a movie, here is the inventory.

About
Feel free to contact me about anything. if your have something interesting to say, i might even send you a return message.

Code
Coming soon, i'll be posting some code snippets and articles that might be of interest to the code creators of the world

Membership
Coming soon, You will be able to become a proud member of the World Famous MarkPitman.com.