Scott started off his career at Radio Shack in Ottawa in 1977. In 1979, Tandy started to ship it’s now historic Tandy Model 1 computer system. Scott moved to Edmonton, Alberta in late 1979 where he worked full time and also took on a part-time job a Radio Shack on Whyte Avenue. He worked there for a year, and then went to work in Nisku for a construction company. In 1981, the construction company went out of business when the oil business took a dive, so Scott was recruited to come back to Radio Shack by his old boss from Whyte Avenue when he went to open the brand new Heritage Mall Radio Shack. This was the Year of the Radio Shack “Color Computer”, and of course the Commodore and Sinclair computer systems. Scott excelled at computer and electronic sales so much so that he was sent to the Londonderry Mall Radio Shack that was one of the first in Canada to have one of the new computer departments in it. Scott was promoted to assistant manager there, and including all of the duties that being a manager involved, he excelled at selling and training other sales associates about computers and how to help customers with their computer needs. Scott was promoted to manager for the Meadowlark shopping centre store in the spring of 1983, where his managerial and sales skills helped to increase sales and profits to record highs, even though the largest mall in the world opened up just down the street later that year. In the fall of 1983, Scott was once again promoted to manage the downtown Edmonton Centre store. Due to Scott’s computer and electronics knowledge, he increased sales and profits once again so much that the District, Regional and Canadian head of operations put Scott into various computer courses to help him to take over one of the Radio Shack computer centre stores in downtown Edmonton. Scott was promoted to open up the Argyll road store in the fall of 1984, and then was sent to the Capilano Mall Radio Shack in January of 1985 to clean it up. In March of 1985, due to changes in the Radio Shack family, Scott quit to pursue other job offers.

           Scott then went to work for 24 Hour Video. During this time, Scott used his past computer knowledge to help set up a District office and the store’s computer systems, as well as helping the computer rental software company developers convert the old Apple IIgs software program to the new IBM computer system. With Scott’s managerial and computer abilities, Scott helped the computer developers to not only improve the software program, but to make a whole new program that fit the needs of the current video rental stores and their management. During this time, Scott was recruited by the Micro Computer Store in 1990 to go and manage their flagship downtown store and to look at opening a south side store. Sales and profits were increased which allowed the Micro Computer store to open a south side computer store, but due to the emerging small business computer IT requirements, Scott decided to pursue his own career as a computer consultant in March of 1991. During his time at the Micro Computer Store, Scott started to see the need for small businesses to have a computer consultant to call upon when the need arose to help fix their office computer systems. Due to the fact that companies were just starting to computerize themselves, he realized that they didn’t have the need or could afford to hire somebody to do nothing but look after their computer needs. There just wasn’t enough need at the time for full time IT personnel, but there was a need for specialized technical expertise to repair and fix hardware and software problems. Scott decided that he would become an expert in the basic day-to-day computer problems that arose in the small to medium businesses. This included data recovery, hardware and software problems, the building and upgrading of computer systems, and implementing small peer-to-peer networks in office situations using the Lantastic networking solution. During his time with PC-SURGEONS, Scott has fixed many computer systems; recovered lots of deleted data files, removed many viruses and setup many Video Rental store systems, as well as computerizing Golf courses.

 

 

 

Below is a list of Scott’s current certifications

 

OEM for Microsoft, Intel and a reseller for numerous computer software companies

CompTIA A+ Certified Technician

Compaq Certified Technician for Desktop and Notebook Computer Systems

DELL Certified Technician for Desktop and Notebook Computer Systems

HP Certified Technician for Desktop and Notebook Computer Systems