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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.

Winners of the coveted Fujitsu Award for Technical Excellence in Production Recording Software in 1994 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.

SALES & SUPPORT TEAM Paul Olsen Software Support Manager Paul spent 5 years as a qualified Agronomist in Mackay & Tully in Queensland up until 1999. He then went on to complete his Bachelor of Information Technology in 2001. Fairport welcomed Paul in 2001. He has since grown knowledgeable on Fairport's range of software and is extremely helpful to potential clients and existing Fairport Club Members. Paul also looks after the Fairport web site and develops data entry software for the PocketPC.     Joanne Richardson Territory Manager - VIC, SA, Sthn NSW (FarmTek Australia) Joanne has a career path which has perfectly led her to Fairport's door. She is a farmer's daughter with a career which started in IT with IBM. She left IBM to join Olivetti. After marrying a farmer in the north of Victoria, Joanne became the Northern Victoria and Southern NSW Sales Account Manager for Smorgon-Cyclone. Through this work Joanne developed excellent skills in sales, distribution and communication with farmers. She left Smorgon Cyclone to take on a Sales Manager's role throughout Victoria and Southern NSW selling a "high tech" milk meter for the dairy industry. This role entailed sound PC software and hardware knowledge and involved considerable on farm training. She has a Certificate IV in Workplace Training, is extremely enthusiastic and a great asset in the Fairport team.     Edward Wiese Software Support Officer Ed joined Fairport in July 2003 as a trainee software support officer and is learning the Fairport suite of software at a rapid pace. He is currently undertaking his Cert III in IT.

DEVELOPMENT TEAM Laurie Smithdale Senior Software Engineer Laurie's software development background started in 1980. He is a gifted software engineer and a very lateral thinker. He has been involved in virtually every imaginable type of software development project. From multi processor flight simulators to on-line services (pre/post internet), embedded systems, enterprise and desktop software systems. He is also very experienced in developing software for web sites, web services and "all things" to do with the internet. Laurie joined Fairport early 1996 and due to his considerable experience in developing mapping software and database systems was (and still is) the key architect of the PAM software suite. His passion is keeping attuned to the latest technologies and software engineering techniques.     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 has been developing software for 9 years and joined Fairport 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.