MARK
CROSS
I make things — and turn ideas into things that work.
It started
with technology.
Long before websites and apps, there was SCITEC — administration, computer programming and microelectronics. Computers were changing the world, and I wanted to understand what made them work.
The technology changed.
The curiosity didn't.
Then came
the mixing desk.
After working in employment and training, my route changed again. At Acoustic Technology I entered the world of professional audio — working in what my boss simply called a sound engineer role.
Electronics, equipment, venues and music suddenly came together.
Music never
really left.
Today I write and produce professionally as Mark A Cross, with original music and creative projects developed through BlueMonkeyBeats.
Different artists. Different styles. The same fascination with creating something that wasn't there yesterday.
Heavy
industry.
I didn't exactly plan on blast furnaces. But heavy industry became a major part of my working life — operations, training, safety and the practical reality of making complicated systems work safely.
It gave me a completely different kind of education: real problems, real people and solutions that have to work outside a computer screen.
SWP
Works.
Years around industrial safety documentation kept exposing the same problem: important information can become complicated, slow and difficult to use.
SWP Works grew from that experience — using digital technology to make practical safety documentation simpler and clearer.
Still building
things.
Websites. Applications. Digital products. Music. Business ideas. Experiments that work — and a few that don't.
In many ways I've ended up back where I began: exploring technology and wondering what else it could do.
Understand it.
Question it.
Build it.