Sam Patton: I am the owner of Patton Service Company, and have over thirty years experience in the computer and technology field.  I worked for the Research and Product Development divisions of International Business Machines in Poughkeepsie, New York and at the International Education Center in Brussels, Belgium.  My work covered programming, systems design and architecture and teaching internal courses for IBM.   My experience ranges from early supercomputers to today's personal computers. I am a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery

I have also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Syracuse University , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Vassar College and Marist College .  I have been an invited speaker on computers and technology at a national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery, and at Purdue , Virginia Polytechnic Institute , Hampton College , Clemson , Louisiana State and Washington & Lee University .  In addition I have spoken at Cambridge University, England and at the Universities of Berne and Zurich , Switzerland.   I was an invited speaker or panelist at IBM conferences in the U.S., Canada, England, France, Scotland, Germany, Belgium, South Africa and Korea.

After retiring from IBM, I started consulting with users as Patton Service Company. My experience includes operating systems such as Windows  95/98, ME, XP, NT (server and workstation) and Windows 2000 and 2003 Professional and Server.  I have experience with and have taught most of the widely used Windows software, including all parts of Windows Office through Office XP, Lotus Smart Suite and Corel Office.  I have installed networks ranging in size from three machines to large networks spanning multiple locations using Windows Networking, and both wired and wireless  networks.