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Mark J. Roseberry, Jr. Service Delivery Lead • Enterprise IT Governance • Applied AI

Personal Dimension

The person behind the work

Engineer by training, craftsman by habit, storyteller by inheritance, and a family leader living in Alaska. This page is the part of the story that does not fit on a résumé.

It has a K'NEX tower, a pot of sourdough starter, a basement cinema, a gym routine that has outlasted a lot of seasons, and a recording project that carries a piece of North Slope history. Pull up a chair.

Where the building started

Some things never change

9-year-old Mark standing next to a 6-foot K'NEX tower that reached the ceiling, completely unsurprising to anyone who knows him today.

The tower came down eventually. The urge to build the next one never did.

Heritage and storytelling

Iñupiaq roots on the North Slope

Family, place, and story come first. Everything else is built on top of them.

Mark is an Iñupiaq man with deep ancestral roots in Barrow (Utqiaġvik) on Alaska's North Slope, and is a proud shareholder of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) and Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation (UIC). Those connections shape how Mark thinks about community, responsibility, and what it means to leave things better than they were found.

The photo here shows Mark serving as a Live Auction Model at the Ivalu Gala fundraiser, wearing his traditional sealskin vest to help raise high bids supporting educational scholarships and community non-profit programs across the North Slope.

  • Home placeBarrow (Utqiaġvik), the community at the heart of the family story.
  • Corporate tiesShareholder of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) and Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation (UIC).
  • Living traditionCoastal leadership and subsistence heritage, honored and passed forward.
Mark Roseberry serving as a Live Auction Model at the Ivalu Gala fundraiser supporting a North Slope non-profit organization.

An audiobook narration project

Fifty Years Below Zero

Narrating Charles D. Brower's historic 1942 Arctic memoir in Mark's own voice.

Fifty Years Below Zero is Charles D. Brower's 1942 memoir of life at the top of Alaska, a firsthand account of the whaling era, the people of the coast, and the long Arctic winters. It is a window into a place and a time that still echo through North Slope families today.

Mark is giving the book a voice: an Iñupiaq narrator reading a historic account of home, with the pacing and warmth of someone who grew up around storytellers. The goal is simple. Let the history be heard the way it deserves to be told, with respect for the people and the land at the center of it.

  • North Slope Iñupiaq heritage
  • Oral storytelling traditions
  • Arctic history
  • An authentic voice for a historic book

Craft and hospitality

Sourdough and espresso

Good food and a good cup are two of the oldest ways to say you are welcome here.

A jar of sourdough starter on the counter keeps its own schedule and asks for attention on its own terms. Baking with it is an exercise in patience: feed it, watch it, learn what it looks and smells like when it is ready, and let the dough decide when the day moves on. Weekend mornings usually end with a stack of sourdough pancakes and a full kitchen.

Espresso is the same discipline in a smaller cup. Dialing in a shot, steaming milk until it turns glossy, and pouring a heart on top is a small ritual that rewards showing up and paying attention. The latte art in the photo was poured for friends and family, which is exactly the right audience for it.

  • SourdoughSlow mornings, a living starter, and pancakes that bring people to the table.
  • EspressoA steady hand, a warm cup, and a heart poured for someone worth pouring it for.
  • The pointFeeding people well is a form of respect, and it is always worth the extra effort.
Weekend morning sourdough pancakes, straight from the starter jar.
A heart poured in the foam for friends and family.

Living space and play

The basement cinema and jam night lighting

A room built for movies, music games, and a lot of laughing with friends.

The basement is a custom home theater built around a 135-inch screen and a 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos sound system. It is a hobby in the best sense: a room that was planned, tinkered with, and improved over time, mostly because it is fun to make a space that makes people say wow when the lights go down.

On guitar and rhythm game nights, the room gets a second life. Mark spent roughly 40 hours learning Lightjams and programming custom reactive lighting for YARG, building more than 40 DMX cues so the room responds to the music as it plays. It is a pure passion project, and it makes jam nights feel like a real show.

Halo game nights with friends are a long-running tradition too. Good company, good sound, a big screen, and a little friendly trash talk.

  • Movie nightsA 135-inch screen with 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos sound for the full cinema feeling.
  • Jam nightsYARG with custom reactive DMX lighting that follows the song.
  • Game nightsHalo with friends, a tradition that keeps showing up on the calendar.
Front stage view of the custom basement cinema featuring a 135-inch screen, black velvet light-absorbing surround, dual subwoofers, and slatted acoustic panels.
Rear room perspective showing two rows of leather theater seating, ceiling-mounted projector, in-ceiling Atmos channels, and acoustic treatments.

DMX Reactive Lighting Demo

YARG and Lightjams Reactive DMX Stage Lighting

27s Live Capture

Live 27-second capture of custom reactive stage lighting programmed in Lightjams across 40+ DMX cues for YARG rhythm game sessions.

Athletics and longevity

Showing up, week after week

Consistency beats intensity, and decades beat everything.

Strength training has been a part of Mark's life for a very long time, and the secret is not a secret at all: show up, do the work, go home, and do it again. Some weeks feel great, some feel like a chore, and the habit carries through both.

The goal is not a number or a finish line. It is staying strong, capable, and healthy for the people who depend on Mark, and having the energy to keep building, cooking, recording, and hosting for many more years.

  • ConsistencyTraining treated as a standing appointment, not a phase.
  • DisciplineSmall choices, repeated daily, that add up over decades.
  • Healthy livingStrength for family, work, and whatever the next project turns out to be.
Years of showing up, one ordinary training day at a time.