Macintosh Management Experience

• 1986-1990 Administration of three Mac "Classic" machines. Running "Ready, Set, Go" and "Microsoft Word." This was in a high school setting.
• 1991-1994 Administration of a 56 Macintosh network, mostly "Classics" and "SEs" along with five other admins and two supervisors.This was at Washington State University.
• 1995-1997 Administration of a five Mac network in a small (and now defunct) publishing company located in Yakima, Washington.
• 1997-2003 Administration and supervision of a six Mac network for two small publishing companies (located in the same office space) in Kent and later relocated to Burien, Washington.
• 2003-current Administration and supervision of two mac networks, each having four or five Mac stations sharing internet connections, printers, scanners, CD/DVD burners and file servers; both networks being a mix of wired and wirelessless connections, along with individual support being given to a handful of individual "switchers" and being "open for freelance" work.

Application / Operating System & Hardware Experience

• Printers: GCC Technologies, Epson, Canon, HP, Image Writer & Brother
• Hardware: Hubs, routers, switches, file servers, USB/Firewire & SCSI Flatbed scanners (all types, too maany too list individually), cable modems, web servers, DVD/CD burners, Macintosh hardware from the Mac Classic to the Cube to the iMac and the G5 Tower
• OSes: Mac OS 6-9.2, Mac OSX 10.0-10.5, Amiga OS, BASIC
• Protocols: FTP, AFP, Rendezvous, TC/IP, Applescript
• Software: Adobe Photoshop, Go Live, Pagemaker, InDesign, Illustrator, ATM, Dreamweaver, Freehand, Flash, Fireworks; Apple iMovie, iWeb, iDVD, iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture, Dashcode; Extensis Suitcase; many web browsers, FTP apps; Microsoft Works, Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher; Quark Express.
  

What We Can Assist You With

• Deciding which Apple Computer is best for you
• Deciding which iPod™ is best for you
• Troubleshooting iTunes™ & iPod™
• Connecting muiltiple computers to the internet
• Setting up a FTP server on a Mac
• Hosting a web page on a Mac (Not creating a web site)
• Troubleshooting hardware malfunctions
• Using Apple's iApps
• Streaming music over the internet or through your home
• Setting up, sending or receiving email
• Setting up a Mac as a File Server
• Installing software
• Maintaining a current backup
• Keeping your software up-to-date.
• Purchasing your Apple Computer.
• Recovering from kernel panics
• Setting up a Mac peer-to-peer, intra-office network
• Setting up a wireless network
• Setting up printer/music/photo/scanner/CD & DVD burner sharing
• Technical assistance on almost every Mac related issue.

 Contact us to find out what we can do for you.