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About Fairport

Fairport is an Australian based company developing quality software predominantly for the agricultural and horticultural industries.

With regard to agriculture, it is our belief that the farmers of today are becoming more sophisticated and technologically advanced. World and domestic markets are demanding quality assured products. Costs of production are increasing. Marketing produce is becoming more and more challenging. Managing a modern farming enterprise requires new approaches... 

And therefore...  Fairport strives to become a business partner of today's and tomorrow's farmers by providing them the software tools to monitor and map their production. To this end, we work closely with many industry leaders within Australia and internationally (people involved with agriculture, horticulture, precision farming, large and small scale cropping and livestock enterprises) and are greatly indebted to a vast number of them for our standing in the market. 

Fairport is a Western Australian owned and operated company was formed back in 1988 by Roger Wiese (a 5th generation farmer) to develop and distribute production recording and planning software for the agricultural and horticultural industries.

PAM was first released in March 1989 and has become the "Standard" for paddock and livestock histories recording in Australia. Now the PAM suite of software products are are used throughout Australia and internationally.

At "The Australian" Farm Software Competition in March 1998, Fairport Technologies was awarded 1st place in the Production Applications Category for the third time and the Fujitsu Award for Technical Excellence in Production Recording Software for the second time. In addition to these two prestigious awards, Fairport won "The Australian" Overseas Travel Award - an overseas trip to the value of $5000.  All of these prizes were awarded for PAM 2000+.

And... once again at the 1999 "The Australian" Farm Software Competition PAM 2000+ outclassed all products of its type.

Fairport was also winner of the coveted Fujitsu Award for Technical Excellence in Production Recording Software in both1994 and 1998. 

1st prize awarded in the Production Recording Software section of "The Australian" Farm Software Competition in 1992, 1994 and 1998 with PAM. 

 

The Fairport Team

       

Roger Wiese CEO, Managing Director In 1988 Roger made a career move from farming to software developer when he founded Fairport Technologies. Roger operated the company as a one man band until 1992 when the workload overwhelmed him and the company's growth demanded a bigger workforce. Roger's skills, leadership & determination have grown the company to be the supplier of the most popular Agricultural software in Australia and a highly respected software development consultancy. Roger stills dabbles in software development, but growing the business and overseeing the direction of the software development process are his greatest passions.

Colin Booth Marketing Director Colin has been fully engaged in the farm software industry since the mid 1980's when he was a partner in the CountrySoft business in Perth. Since 1991 Colin has managed and owned Booth Technology, Fairport's Western Australian distributor. Colin grew up on a WA wheatbelt farm and after leaving school attended and graduated from Muresk Agricultural College. He then joined Elders as a stock 'rep' before joining Countrysoft. It would be hard to find a more knowledgeable and experienced farm software expert and marketer in Australia. Colin joined Fairport in July 2006.

ADMIN, SALES & SUPPORT TEAM Allison Coleman Customer Service and Public Relations Manager Allison joined Fairport in December 2007 and has been learning the Fairport suite of software at a rapid pace ever since in order to ensure Fairport continues to offer the highest quality customer service. Allison is also maintains the website and quarterly newsletter. Allison brings a range of experience from both Australia and Canada. She has bachelor degrees in Business (Entrepreneurship) and Education and recently graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Master of Electronic Marketing and Information Management.     Edward Wiese Customer Service & Software Testing Ed has been with Fairport since July 2003 performing most of the technical support and a lot of the software testing. He also covers the support for all the PastureWatch users since the program began in 2004.   Marina Wiese Business Analyst Marina has owned and operated two small businesses after gaining a Bachelor Degree in Economics. She joined Fairport in 2005 on a part time basis to assist in watching the dollars and to help in the administration area. .   Pushpa Singh Office Administrator Pushpa grew up in Zambia, gained a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration in the USA, and worked as an accounts assistant for 18 years in India before joining Fairport in July 2005. Pushpa is the backbone of Fairport and is most likely the person you will first talk to when calling our Perth office.

DEVELOPMENT TEAM Ben Gooch Software Engineer Ben has been working in the computer industry for over 15 years and has worked on a number of diversified projects. Ben's experience has exposed him to different technologies including real time GPS/DGPS navigation and communications, Handheld PDA devices, POS Terminals and desktop/server application development. Ben joined Fairport in 1998 and has played an integral part in the development of PAM and associated software packages.     Darren McGlenchy Software Engineer Darren joined Fairport in 2001. He has a broad knowledge in software development and current database technologies. He has made great progress with Fairport's line of Livestock software including custom work for Australian Agricultural Company.     Michael Barker Software Engineer Michael joined Fairport in 2005 after a stint in lecturing at Curtin University and a career in software development. Michael graduated from Curtin in 1999 with a Bachelor of Commerce, Information Systems Major. Michael has since obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology with Distinction.     Mikhail Beloshapkin Software Engineer Mik brings experience developing precision farming software before joining Fairport in June 2007. He has a PhD in Photogrammetry, Phototopography and remote sensing from the Siberian State Academy of Geodesy in Russia and an Engineering degree from Novosibirsk Technical University.