Mark Lampert graduated from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas in May of 2002 with a Bachelors of Music in Sound Recording Technology. Later that year he began working for developer Ion Storm in Austin, Texas, handling all voice recording and editing for Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003), then moving on to additional sound design and music for Thief: Deadly Shadows (2004).
Following the closure of Ion Storm, Mark re-located to Washington DC to join Bethesda Softworks as lead sound designer for the epic next chapter of their flagship series, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006). He has since assumed the role of Audio Director during development of Fallout 3 (2008).