Robert Phair


Professional Life

The majority of my career has been spent studying and applying the scientific method to the use and misuse of Information Technology in various corporations and universities.  Most of this has been as an IT consultant.  My work lately has been with applications in marketing of open source software, concentrating in how evolving software and Internet standards can be used most effectively by rapidly growing virtual businesses in a global marketplace.

As a consultant, I have specialized in the UNIX operating system and many of its numerous counterparts and auxiliaries.  I continue to exclusively endorse (and implement) open systems in the parts of the business world that I come into contact with.  My current endeavour is to adapt these technologies to a business model that can support rapid and sustainable growth, independent of geographical location of a business's human constituents.

The current business that I am developing, Computers of South Dublin, was created to satisfy an ongoing need for homes and SMEs in the Dublin area to have a support service that can also provide training on a customer's own equipment. I expect that the additional services of web and print design will make this small but rapidly growing firm an ideal partner for companies that can only afford to have an IT person on hand for a few hours per week.

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Education

University of California, Berkeley 
BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
Class of 1991, with academic Honors

I studied (among other things):


Personal Interests


A partial listing of past projects


Linux Now!                              Blue Ribbon Campaign


Be well,