About The Wiz

I've been around the Internet since before it was public. Working for a large government/military electronics contractor back in the ArpaNet and NSFnet days, I had the thrill of sending data files by modem at 300 baud. If you think your 56kb connection is slow -- well, you just don't know slow. We would start a text document transfer before going home at 5 p.m. and find it still transferring at 7:30 a.m. when we returned to work the next day!

I became involved with the public online community in 1989 when I connected the 1200 baud modem on my Commodore 128 computer to QuantumLink, the Commodore Community forerunner of America On Line (AOL). Shortly thereafter I started my first local community bulletin board system (BBS) -- kind of like a mini-Internet -- which eventually grew to several networked computers and thousands of users world-wide.

 
AMBASSADOR BOARD circa 1994

In early 1991 I began work for a local Internet company. The world wide web (www) had so few servers at the time you could just about count them on your fingers and Gopher was the big information retrieval source. Not long after this I was a managing partner of my own Internet Service Provider (ISP). Since then, I've owned a second ISP, managed several commercial web servers and designed thousands of web pages.

From 1989 to the present I've been involved in one form of e-commerce or another, designing websites for large and small retailers and service providers. I've learned a thing or two over that time about what works and what doesn't work when selling on the Internet.

This website is a place for me to offer my products and service to the public and it is also part of a bigger project, Main Street, an online retail community that brings together the things I've learned in one, affordable, easy to use system.

I would be more than happy to put that experience to work for YOU!