Scott Joseph Mark

Scott Joseph Mark, whose appetite for cooking white plate dinners for neighbors and family was surpassed only by his hunger for knowledge, died Friday, November 9, 2018.

Scott was born March 12, 1966, to Arlene (Goshen, IN) and George Mark (deceased) in Elkhart, Indiana, where he was raised. He was a lifelong member of Prairie Street Mennonite Church, where he and his wife, Summer, were youth sponsors and he often baked communion bread.

He excelled at taking things apart, putting them back together better, reading, getting lost on family trips, helping others and pithy comments. His five-person bike made it possible for the whole family to tour together. He was loyal to his extended family, loved his children and was generous to a fault.

Scott’s first paid work in his field was to write an article for a computer programming magazine (including code samples) before he could drive. He worked with both punch tape and punch cards as a youth. He coded a complete custom financial accounting system for hire before he graduated high school.

Scott attended Goshen College and received his BS and MS in Computer Science from Purdue University. At Purdue Scott worked with the Shadow Lab networking group (they wrote the book on TCP/IP). He was employed by Miles Laboratories (later Bayer) from 1991-1999 as an embedded systems programmer for medical instruments.

In 2000, Scott became in independent consultant. In this capacity he worked on Proton Therapy Cancer Treatment Centers. He led the validation effort for the first Proton Therapy Treatment Center in the Midwest. His clients included Indiana University Cyclotron Facility in Bloomington Indiana, Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute, ProCure Proton Therapy Centers, Massachusetts General Hospital, and CNAO (the first Proton Therapy Treatment Center in Italy). He sat on the International Standardizations Board for the Communications between hospital systems for Radiation Oncology (IHE-RO).

Scott and his former wife, Summer Mark, are parents of Anne, John and Brian. Susan Mark Landis (Dennis), David Mark and Paul Mark (Kim) are his siblings.

A private visitation and burial will be held. Scott’s last act was to send flowers to a fellow patient. Give flowers in his name to those you love, but the family asks that donations go to Heifer International.