Marco has worked for Inprise Corporation since January 1994, in Technical Support for Paradox and Delphi. In August 1995, he joined InterBase Software Corporation in Quality Assurance, and later in Research and Development. Marco has been referred to as the "jack of all trades" at InterBase. He has worked on a wide variety of projects, including design of the install API, maintenance of UDF and Blob filter mechanisms, Webmaster for the company's intranet Web server, contributing to a company-wide effort to improve development methodology, and being the licensing guru. Marco received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in computer science from California State University at Chico.