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By Nick Hodge | November 28, 2001

Septem­ber 89 As part of hon­ey­moon, vis­ited Apple Com­puter headquar­ters in Cuper­tino, Cali­for­nia. Vis­ited Apple Pacific and liaised with Apple­Centre task force team and shopped at the “com­pany store”.
April-September 1991 Moved from Tech­nical Sup­port Man­ager to Cor­por­ate Sys­tems Engin­eer, respons­ible for Bene­fi­cial Fin­ance, BHP Why­alla, Kin­hill Engin­eers, Aus­tralian Sub­mar­ine Cor­por­a­tion, F. H. Fauld­ing & Co, and CRA Explor­a­tion. This role involved the all tech­nical aspects of Macin­tosh usage in these cor­por­ates. Reg­u­lar news­let­ters and fact sheets were also com­piled and sent out, along with Cor­por­ate User Group Meet­ings and one-on-one tech­nical ses­sions with their Tech­nical Staff.

Early exper­i­ment­a­tion with Eth­er­net, Quick­Mail, Apple’s A/UX and other tech­nic­ally chal­len­ging products pion­eered at Apple­Centre Adelaide were intro­duced to these Cor­por­ates and in many cases adop­ted as Cor­por­ate platforms.

This role, whilst extend­ing to Septem­ber 1991, involved levels of Account Man­age­ment and liaison with developers and dis­trib­ut­ors in Aus­tralia and the US. Close ties were cre­ated with Tri Data Com­mu­nic­a­tions, Key­way (now Con­exus), Apple Sydney and Melbourne.
Decem­ber 88 Com­pleted writ­ing chapter for the book “Tricks of the Hyper­Talk Mas­ters” about using Hyper­Card as a front end tool to com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vices. This book was pub­lished in 89 by the Waite Group, Mann County, USA. (ISBN 0–672-48431–5)
Novem­ber 88 Employed and Trained new Tech­nical Sup­port team mem­bers. August 88 Appoin­ted Man­ager of Tech­nical Sup­port at Ran­dom Access.
Janu­ary 88 Appoin­ted prime Tech­nical Sup­port con­tact for the Aus­tralian Sub­mar­ine Cor­por­a­tion. This included daily liaison with Kay Lind­ley, PC & OA Super­visor and Brian Mus­ker, MIS Manager.
Septem­ber 87 Atten­ded Apple Ser­vice Train­ing in Sydney, achiev­ing Level 1 Accred­it­a­tion for Macin­tosh II hardware.
Janu­ary 87 Moved from Sales to join the one man Tech­nical Sup­port team as a trainee Tech­nical Sup­port Ana­lyst. In 1987 the world of Macin­tosh was just about to explode into eth­er­net net­works, open sys­tems with the Macin­tosh II and Apple­Share. Sup­por­ted Apple plat­forms ranged from the Macin­tosh, to the Apple II, to the rare Apple III.
August 86 Achieved highest sales in the month.
Janu­ary 86 Com­menced work at Ran­dom Access as a Junior Trainee Sales­man. Job roles included store man­age­ment and ini­tial cus­tomer contact.

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