page_title: Mark W. Fuller
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Mark W. Fuller / Career
context_page_description: Mark W. Fuller is president and CEO of WET, a fountain and water feature design firm in Los Angeles, California. The experiential water features designed by his company can be found at landmarks around the world.
context_section_description: As part of his undergraduate thesis in Civil Engineering at the University of Utah, Fuller developed a large-scale laminar flow nozzle with two other seniors that has since been used extensively in WET's water features. The first nozzle was used in a fountain installed in the atrium of The Conquistador, now an apartment building on 3300 South, but which has since been removed.
  After graduating from Stanford, Fuller worked as an Imagineer for The Walt Disney Company, applying the laminar flow technology he developed and refined to create Disney's “Leapfrog” fountain feature at Epcot Center. During the push to have the fountain ready for the opening of Epcot, Fuller did not sleep for four days.
  It's not at all about the size (of the fountain). It's about seeing people enchanted. [...] I like making people feel more glad to be alive.
  — Mark Fuller, 2015 alumni profile, Continuum magazine.
  Fuller co-founded WET in 1983 with two other ex-Imagineers, Melanie Simon and Alan Robinson. Their first commission was to create a water feature for Fountain Place, a Dallas skyscraper. The company now holds more than 50 patents and employs over 200 employees of various disciplines — designers, architects, engineers, scientists, cinematographers and others.
  He and his creative design firm are known for notable water features that include the Fountains of Bellagio, The Dubai Fountain, the CityCenter in Las Vegas, the rebuilt Revson Fountain at the Lincoln Center, and The Waters of the Olympic Park, featured in Sochi, Russia (designed for the 2014 Winter Olympics).
caption: Fountains of Bellagio at night (2006)
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