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May 2020

May 26 2020
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Mark Longman with Terminal Operating System in background

Employee Spotlight: Mark Longman’s Journey of Rebuilding Mainsail 10 From the Ground Up

By Employee Spotlight, Life at Tideworks

A true jack-of-all-trades, Mark Longman’s input has been invaluable throughout his career at Tideworks. Today he’s a senior software engineer and team lead in developing the next iteration of our Mainsail Terminal Operating System (TOS). In 2001, he joined Tideworks as a front-end web developer. Since then he’s worked on almost every web-based product carried by both Tideworks and Carrix. User interface and usability design have always been paramount to his approach in software development and he has thoroughly enjoyed playing a role in creating clean and simple software solutions.

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May 19 2020
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Engineers Business Analysis on Terminals

Understanding Your Terminal Through Our Business Process Analysis

By Mainsail, Professional Services

At Tideworks, we work extremely hard to make sure that our software solutions answer the exact problems our customers are faced with. Over the years we’ve refined a process that starts with sales and business development and takes us straight through to rollout and implementation. We’re thorough so that the final phase goes smoothly and terminal operators are prepared to leverage our software.

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Mark Traynor

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Mark Traynor joined Tideworks in 2026 as Chief Product & Technology Officer, bringing more than two decades of hands-on experience in building and deploying terminal technology and automation systems. In this role Mark will lead the company’s product management and engineering organizations and is responsible for the product roadmap and the modernization of the Tideworks platform.

Before Tideworks, Mark was Chief Technology Officer at Lynxis, whose Nascent gate automation systems deployed in nearly 100 marine and rail terminals across North and South America. For Lynxis, Mark led a globally distributed 70+ person engineering team that built a modern, configuration-driven platform on a single codebase while introducing a visual workflow configuration designed to streamline customer implementations. He also introduced cutting-edge computer vision and agentic AI solutions as well as the re-engineering of the hardware to run on readily available commercial components rather than bespoke systems sourced from specialist manufacturers.

For the 13 years before that, Mark was an independent technology partner to major North American automated marine terminal projects, including Virginia International Terminals and Long Beach Container Terminal. These operators relied on him to help lead their most complex terminal operating system implementations driving efficiency and reliability through their gate, rail, yard and vessel operations.

Mark began his career at Navis in 2004, delivering terminal operating system implementations across North America and Europe.