Curriki Leadership Team

Joshua Marks has focused his 20-year-long career on using emerging technologies to enable and improve learning opportunities for all children in both formal and informal settings. As Chief Technology Officer, Joshua oversees all technology development and hosting infrastructure for Curriki.org. In this role Joshua sets the technical direction, manages the development teams and collaborates with partners, contributors and the open source software community to design and provide the tools needed to realize Curriki's innovative vision. Joshua is also the point person for engaging with standards groups such as IMS Global and SIF (The schools Interoperability Framework).

Before joining Curriki, Joshua was a Senior Systems Architect at CTB/McGraw-Hill where he was responsible for enterprise technology renewal and completed a total re-design of the company's online assessment system to enable back-end integration with legacy 'paper and pencil' scoring and reporting systems. Prior to that, he was Senior Director eLearning Technology at Harcourt Education where he was instrumental in launching Harcourt Education's e-learning group to foster technological innovation within and across the traditionally print-based Harcourt publishing companies. He also spearheaded a first-of-its-kind tablet PC 1-to-1 e-learning pilot project with 150 middle school students in partnership with Microsoft and HP as vision for the future of educational publishing.

Earlier in his career, Joshua was co-founder and CTO for the ZapMe! Knowledge Network, a broadband satellite delivered network for K-12 education. Before the advent of the internet, Joshua pioneered the use of personal computers in learning as a Producer of award winning early learning games at Electronic Arts and as the 20th employee of The Learning Company with credits that include the original Reader Rabbit, The Children's Writing & Publishing Center, The Bilingual Writing Center, Challenge of the Ancient Empires, the School House Rock series, The Story Painting series, Scooter's Magic Castle, among many others. Joshua started his career as a Software Librarian for the Mendocino County Superintendent of School in Northern California where he grew up. Joshua holds a degree in Mathematics from University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) where he now lives.