Kirk Marple, Chief Software Architect and VP of Engineering
Kirk has over 18 years of experience in the software industry. He spent the last four years as Chief Software Architect and VP of Engineering of Agnostic Media, and the previous six years at Microsoft as development manager for WindowsMedia.com and the Virtual Worlds Group in Microsoft Research.

Kirk has an extensive background in object-oriented software architecture, distributed systems, and multimedia application development. He holds five US Patents (#6,049,805, #6,166,732, #6,173,404, #6,212,436, #6,349,301) for his work in object-oriented virtual environment platforms. He also has a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia.

As Mediastile's Chief Software Architect and VP of Engineering, Kirk is responsible for architecting technology solutions and building and managing the company's development team.