Mark Mayo Bio

Thank you for your interest, my name is Mark Mayo
CEO and founder of 601MEDIA LLC, operating since 1992.

I am a studyholic and a huge advocate for Self Study, Continuing Education, and Lifelong Learning!

A longtime independent creator while doing a lot of self study and research, I literally create everything myself. From the financing, building, and repairing of my own equipment to anything else. On the side of content I publicly share my research in nicely laid out articles on the following websites: 601MEDIA, The Tech Blog, Content Publisher Academy, HostScreamer Cloud Computing, Survival On Demand, Packet Buzzard, Saltwater Pulse, CB Fishing, WB Fishing. I also manage the frontend and backend along with 2 servers hosting space for an array of client’s website services. I especially like creating graphics, video, 3D, VFX, motion graphics, and digital audio production.

In the early days I tried a ton of different ideas to become a self sufficient entrepreneur, gaining experience and knowledge along the way. I’ve tried everything from stereo installations, mobile distribution, woodworking, security systems, shareware, artwork, videography, computer repair, automotive repair, programming, web development, tabloid newspaper, and many more. One key thing I learned is “business is a completely separate thing from any talents one might have”. The idea of “if I build it, they will come” didn’t work for me. That meant I had to learn about subjects I considered to be super boring, but that’s business. I build stuff, I fix stuff, and I create stuff, I don’t necessarily enjoy learning boring dry subjects. However, that’s exactly what I needed to do to move forward.

I started 601MEDIA in 1992.

In the early 80’s, working full time as a drivability technician at a South Florida GM Dealership, I gathered together enough knowledge to start my next business effort called 601Media. By the end of 1999 I was lucky enough to change careers, I had landed a full time job as a High-end Digital Video Systems Integrator at a Digital Video Equipment Dealer. After 20 years of working in nasty, greasy, hot conditions I was very happy to walk away to AC filled offices located in the North End of Palm Beach County in beautiful South Florida. As my first self made win settled in I began an accelerated period where I dug in deeper and deeper to gain more knowledge.

The backstory of how my computer and computer graphics interest developed:

At the end of the 70’s and in the very early 1980’s General Motors was developing an automotive emissions system called CCC, Computer Command Control, more recently referred to as OBDI. This system was designed to deal with tailpipe emissions in order to meet government regulations and growing environmental regulations. At that time I was a Heavy Line Technician at a GM dealership. I was already interested in electronics so within 2 years I moved up to Drivability Technician. As a result I received a fair amount of training in things like analog to digital signal processing and advanced automotive electronics. I also brought home GM’s drivability manuals that were 4 inches thick, no joke, to learn every detail I could.

A long hard road: All along I wasn’t able to afford school as I watched friends go off to schools like Ohio State University and the Bell & Howell School, both located in Columbus, OH. So I bought their books from them when they were done. Later on working as a honest mechanic earning a modest income(due to being honest), with a Wife and Daughter, and the owner of a 35 year old fixer-upper home, not much income was budgeted towards hobbies or education. To feed my need I made due with buying used, broken, non operating computer equipment. I also salvaged discarded computers and servers from anywhere I could find them, mostly garbage bins.

Getting traction: So with this (new to me) junk I had drug home I got my own education and experience from those junk computers. I started programming on a Timex Sinclair, the keyboard was so small I had to use an eraser end of a #2 pencil to type on the tiny keyboard. The Internet was a Wildcat BBS dialup connection and zmodem was the hot protocol. Around 1987 I purchased a couple of used 060 accelerated Commodore Amiga 2000’s that came with some video processing equipment, a SuperGen genlock, and a DCTV adaptor- which had the ability to output 24bit graphics to a NTSC monitor, combining an interlaced TV signal with computer graphics. The computer was so much better at displaying color(especially reds) than any NTSC TV, at that time I fell in love with the beautiful backlit graphics. Soon after I picked up a used copy of Real 3D, a CAD like software used to create and render 3D objects in scenes. Next I purchased a 2nd hand DPS PAR capture card(Digital Processing Systems Personal Animation Recorder) with the sister card Time Base Corrector. Next came the software Imagine 3D and Razor Editor. I fell in love all over again with digital video. I soon moved on to IBM clones for their raw rendering power (speed/time) and started building very early IBM CCIR 601 4.2.2 10bit digital video editing systems, yes IBM, not the Mac. Soon after I learned about an inexpensive Vocational School and attended their Television Production Program for about a year. My passion for video and PC’s ultimately landed me a job as a Systems Integrator of Discreet Logic edit* Targa 3000 & Digisuite Video Editing Systems supplying Television Studios, Post Production facilities and Special Effects houses throughout Florida. I then scratch built a Pentium Pro monster dual proc powerhouse and installed a new DPS Perception 10bit capture card, with Lightwave 3D, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. Being told “it could not be done” I designed an early Networked Video Server. I called it my Render Farm and used it for post production in the early days of Magnum Video and then 601MEDIA. I went on to supply years of post production services and digital video equipment help to independent video producers throughout South Florida.

Fast forward to today: It’s been over 40 years now, time really fly’s by. Today I focus on my business and helping others while constantly keeping my eye on what’s coming in the very near future, like Artificial Intelligence(AI) automation.

Thank you for your interest, Mark Mayo

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