Mark Tupa

Mark Tupa has over 20 years of systems engineering and project management experience for the DoD and IC. Mark’s experience covers system design and architecture, integration and test, operational support, telecommunications systems, network analysis, and training. Mark’s primary expertise is hardware/software integration and test as well as operational support for varying processing systems. Mark is the Chief Technology Officer for Tensley Consulting, Inc., as well as a founding partner. In this role, he not only provides systems engineering expertise to a number of customers, but also mentors and trains the next generation of technical experts. Mark started his career as an officer in the United States Air Force (and later, in the Air Force Reserve) as an Acquisition Engineer and Deputy Program Manager for Intelligence Systems. He continued as a Field Engineer, providing front-line support to deployed military units.

His focus during this time was on RF systems, including the design, integration and test, deployment, and support of a wide variety of processing systems. Mark has a Bachelor of Computer Engineering degree from the University of Minnesota, Duluth.