Mark Barlet Editor-in-Chief

Mark Barlet's motivation for founding AbleGamers.com came while watching his best friend (Stephanie Walker) of nearly 20 years suffer through incredible amounts of frustration. Stephanie had recently been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, and though she had been an avid gamer, her illness forced her to abandon the games that brought her joy. Mark set off to find answers for her, to get her back into the game, but the search yielded few answers, and a lot more questions. Seeing a void, Mark set out to fill it, and help others.

Disabled himself after sustaining a spinal cord injury, leaving him with some demised use of his left leg, while on active duty in the Air Force, Mark could relate to hitting limitations, and thus, AbleGamers was born.

Mark's day job is working as the Quality Assurance and Business Analyst Manager at SallieMae. In his years of working in the Washington DC area, Mark became a thought leader in compliance and 508 testing (law about how Disabled people interact with government's public information, like websites). Mark has a Masters in Information Systems with 15 years in software quality assurance. Mark has been lead on major development efforts for the United States government, major online retailers and international web operation.