A local service provider with extensive experience We are located on the Bellarine peninsular and therefore Geelong based. It's nice to offer a service in an area where both the client and the service provider live locally. Of course, we are delighted to have clients who reside outside Geelong so that we can introduce them to Geelong expertise and friendliness. We are a small organisation, enabling us to provide all our clients with direct personal attention. We have been working with and using computers for a combined total of more than 90 years. The profiles below are general in nature. We will provide additional details that relate specifically to particular areas of experience to anyone who is interested. Please contact us. We are:   Joy Teague BSc BCom MSc PhD.   Joy has worked in computing for more than 40 years, for the majority of that time as an academic. She was recognised internationally for her research into reasons for the under-representation of women as computer professionals and the broader aspects of the under-representation of women in senior positions in the workforce. Outside work she built a house and a 37’ yacht (with her husband, Barrie) and sailed the latter up the east coast of Australia, raised a son, did a lot of part time study and was a major contributor in a local women’s service organisation. Currently, in addition to being an Independent Representative for a company marketing essential services, she runs a small computer support business for mainly retired clients. Since ‘retiring’, Joy also has taught computing to seniors at her local Neighbourhood Centre and U3A. Until recently she was a Thermomix (a replacement for almost everything in the kitchen) consultant. While food and cooking have been a lifetime hobby, Joy sees that her involvement with a company providing essential services fits much better with her computer background and with her current computer support business. This enables her to help both her client base and her family and others in two ways. Firstly, by providing them with better telecommunications solutions and secondly by offering them the chance to participate in the opportunity to join the company. This activity fits with her previous research interests in that it provides an opportunity for women to become financially independent within the constraints of raising a family. It also provides an absorbing interest, camaraderie and the potential for financial security.         Barrie Hesketh BCom MEd.   Barrie has a computing background and has retired from working as a computer professional. He wrote his first computer program in 1961. He is a former lecturer in computing at the Gordon Institute of Technology and was the Director of Computing and Communications Services at Deakin University. In the early 1980s he was a member of the policy making committee that formulated standards for the first commercial use of the Internet in Australia. Barrie grew up when real boys went to technical schools, so at school he was presented with the idea that it was usual for ordinary people to make and do things for themselves. Because he finished schooling at year 10, to earn his academic qualifications Barrie studied part time for 15 consecutive years. He has undertaken many projects in his lifetime some small like making a Mirror sailing dinghy from a kit and some large like moving into a partly finished house and then completing it around the family as they lived there. Spending 9 years building a 13 tonne boat in the backyard was a big project. Barrie now spends his outdoors relaxation time on the golf course and of course regrets that he didn't start playing sooner. Barrie is an Independent Representative of the same company as Joy. He does a lot of the back office tasks associated with the business that Joy and he run. He is bemused by an interesting phenomenon of the telecommunications industry in Australia, ie. the dominant providers enjoy their position for reasons other than because they provide the best and most cost effective services.