Owner & CEO | Apple Consultant | ACMT | ACSP | ACTC | ACSA
Background & Experience
Shane brings well over 15 years of experience using and working on Macs, from his first Apple IIGS, to his latest MacBook Pro sporting the new Quad-core and Thunderbolt technology. It's just one of the latest additions to the many Macs he has owned and collected over the years.
He officially started his professional Apple career working for Newer Technology Inc., a third party Apple hardware developer and engineering firm formerly out of Wichita, KS, as the Technical Services Manager till late 2000. He had overseen the Technical Support Departments that entailed (phone / web / email) Testing, Component Level Debug and RMA.
NewerTech was well known for engineering and pioneering the very first G3 processor upgrades for legacy Macs before Apple released it on their own systems as well as other various USB, video and hardware devices. They also made RAM module upgrades under the name of NewerRAM (before being sold off), completely engineered and designed in-house specifically for Apple computers requiring high quality low power fully buffered RAM.
His most defining and memorable experience with an Apple product was with the Apple IIGS. He instantly fell in love with it’s ProDOS System 6 GUI operating system, which over time, set the foundation for the first Mac. While in middle school and being fascinated by computers from an early age, it was a no brainer he took Computer Programming and "Intro to Computers" in his 7th grade and wrote simple Pro Dos Apple II BASIC programs. While taking these classes he often was the one teaching since he has already being self-taught on most aspects of computer and programming theory by reading books at the local library at the age of 10.
At the age of 10, his first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 with a cassette tape drive for storage which was eventually replaced with an Apple IIGS, 3.5in drive and an Apple RGB monitor. And just in case you are curious, this is indeed the classic Radio Shack Tandy BASIC programming language book on top of the Sony TV/CRT monitor.
This photo was taken in 1995, during the time when it wasn't cool to own a Mac. It shows Shane's (now vintage) Quadra 630 which sported an add-on TV tuner device from Apple. The third-party ADB bus game controller was used primarily to play Swoop from Ambrosia Software.
The Mac was also used to host a dial-up BBS service from Hermes and was eventually replaced by the GUI based Tele-Finder BBS.
While holding college degrees in Computer Science & Programming, he obtained his first Apple Certified Macintosh Certificate April of 2000 and remains current on all of the following Apple Certifications.
Shane is an Apple Certified Support Professional (ACSP 10.5 & 10.6), Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (ACTC 10.5), Apple Certified System Administrator (ACSA 10.5) Apple Certified Product Professional (2008 - 2010), Apple Certified Sales Professional (2008 - 2010), Apple Certified Macintosh Technician (ACMT since April 2000)
