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1981, in a Botswana coal prospecting area setting up a primary grid for borehole drilling locations

1986, Martin delivering a talk to Swaziland students about survey instruments its application

1989, Martin collecting field data during a demonstration to engineers

1989, Martin demonstrating data transfer and processing to engineers

1988, Martin in the Kruger National Park performing microwave distance measurements to strenghten the primary grid coordinates

1982, Martin working with a theodolite to measure coal prospecting borehole positions Botswana

1990, Martin at Anglo American Training Center working with students to test surveying equipment using mock measurements

1988, Training mine surveyors on new Electronic measuring equipment at Botswana's Orapa and Letlhakane Diamond Mines

Martin has qualifications in Topographical Surveying and PCSupport. He started his working life in 1979 as a field surveyor for the South African government and army and was mainly involved in map making using aerial photography.

He later joined Shell and worked in the coal prospecting areas of Botswana and South Africa, working mainly from a caravan and driving a 4X4. During this time Martin acquired vast experience with the data capture and calculation processes involved with surveying.

He then joined a top surveying instrument company as a rep selling, demonstrating and providing solutions mainly in the engineering and mining industries of South Africa. He purchased his own PC in the mid 1980's putting it to work with sales, stock and administration tasks. After a diploma in PC Support he wrote database applications for client management, developing this futher to include applications for serial number tracking and warranty control.

As a keen electronics hobbiest he got involved with domestic and industrial security systems and joined a major distributor of security supplies, working mainly in field support. This involved linking alarm systems to security control rooms with telephone and radio transmitters, setting up base station receivers with computer software to monitor the alarms. He has developed temperature monitoring devices which he installed into two ice cream warehouses and an apple farm.

In the early 1990's Martin worked for a major software distribution company as the telesales manager. He assisted in the setup of an infobase system, call and voicemail management system. From 1996 Martin has been running his own computer support and consulting business. He boasts a high success rate in providing solutions to some difficult requests from his clients as well as solving computer glitches in the operating system, software or hardware.

Martin relocated to live in the UK in 2002 and started Martin's HelpDesk in Bristol in January 2007. He has a growing client base in and around Bristol and provides both maintenance and solutions to small business. Support using a remote desktop connection is very popular as it provides an instant solution and saves the client the costs of time and travel and can billed by the half hour thus saving even more.

1996, Client standing next to a working prototype temperature monitoring system which Martin developed for his Pink Lady apple seedlings

2001, Staff and computer network setup supplied and managed by Martin for exhibition registration.

2001, A client next to her computer which was supplied, installed and maintained at an estate in South Africa

2002, A happy client, author and home user, testing his new computer, Cape Town