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About Fairport

Fairport develops quality software predominantly for the agricultural and horticultural industries.

We believe the reasons for our success over many years are:

• We are owned and operated by people with backgrounds in farming
• We are always prepared to listen to our clients - we know that without them we'd be nobody
• We have never been complacent - we have always strived for ways to better our products and services

We started our journey in 1988 in Western Australia - Australia's (and one of the world's) harshest and most demanding farming environments. Some have said that if we'd started out anywhere else, the software would not be as good as it is ... That is, if you can satifsfy the needs of farmers in Western Australia, the software must be OK.

Fairport works with and alongside industry leaders, governments, agricultural education institutions, national and state research organisations and some of the world's largest and best run agricultural companies. We have formed software commercialization partnerships with research organizations and have been selected to form partnerships with world leading agricultural machinery companies, chemical manufacturers, produce acquirers in various projects over many years.

We are proud to be supporters and sponsors of Nuffield Farming Scholarships - giving a bit back to the industry that has stood by us over many years.

PAM was first released in March 1989 and has become the "Standard" for agricultural recording in Australia. Now the Fairport suite of software products are are used across many countries around the globe.

 

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 Australia. Since 1991 Colin has managed and owned Booth Technology, Fairport's Western Australian distributor. Colin grew up on a "wheatbelt" farm and after leaving school attended and graduated from Muresk Agricultural College. It would be hard to find a more knowledgeable and experienced farm software expert and marketer. Colin joined Fairport in July 2006.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM Emily Booth Office Administrator Emily has recently joined the Fairport Team and is in charge of the day to day Office proceedures including Accounts and Fairport Club Memberships. Emily has a Diploma in Marketing and has also done several Business Administration and Customer Service courses. Emily will usually be your first point of contact if you ring our 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 full redevelopment of the Individual Animal Recording system.     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.

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